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Exploring teenagers’ access and use of assistive hearing technology
Children require good signal-to-noise ratios for optimum listening and learning. The use of remote microphone technology can be of benefit, yet older children often resist using it. Jennifer Groth reviews the challenges facing older children in the use of remote...Does the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones cause APD?
Have you heard the noise around APD? With a flurry of interest around noise-cancellation and APD, Dale Hewitt offers his take on the evidence and theory. When and why did this question first arise? An article was published by BBC...Listening differences in autistic individuals
In this article Erin Schafer, Lauren Mathews and Andrea Dunn outline the common auditory issues that autistic individuals face in comparison with their neurotypical peers and highlight the need to move beyond the traditional audiologic test battery when working with...
Tinnitus apps (revisited)
If you’ve experienced an uptick in the number of your patients complaining of tinnitus lately, you are not alone. In fact, there is some evidence that the social and emotional strain of the ongoing pandemic many exacerbate tinnitus for existing...
The case of the women and the words: intensive therapy can help many years post stroke
Aphasia, a language impairment impacting on a person’s ability to speak, understand, read and write, is most commonly caused by a stroke. Speech and language therapists are trained to work with people with aphasia, often aiming for restitution and rehabilitation...BAAP Mid-Year Symposium 2024: A Neurology-Neurotology Interface
British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians (BAAP) held its mid-year symposium virtually, attracting a global audience of audiovestibular and neurology professionals. Organised by Professor Soumit Dasgupta, Chair of the BAAP Education Committee, the half-day event focused on the complex interface between neurology and neurotology, specifically addressing neurodegenerative disorders and their impact on balance.Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective
Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...The modern management of Ménière's disease
In this article, John Phillips considers the evolution of management options for Ménière’s disease. Treatment options past and present are discussed, together with an insight into future developments regarding the role of intratympanic steroids. Ménière's disease can be the source...
How can we improve outcomes for patients with acute vestibular neuritis?
Vestibular neuritis is a common disorder that can leave up to 50% of patients with persistent vertigo symptoms for months to years following the acute insult. Often their first contact with ENT or balance specialists is many months after the...
Closure of septal perforations
This Belgian retrospective observational study looked at the success rate and predictive factors for success when bilateral advancement flaps were used via an external approach. In total, 111 patients were included in the study over a 16-year period. The mean...
