More and more hearing care professionals are undertaking QuickSIN speech in noise testing and that's a good thing for you. Let's talk about why speech in noise testing is a good predictor of how you will get on and really relevant to the hearing aids you choose.

A new press release from Phonak details a new wireless microphone technology that they have been working on in collaboration with Advanced Bionics. The details are intriguing as are the increased speech understanding in noise that they say it will deliver.

I had an interesting experience yesterday and it reminded me why we always try to ensure that there is a family member present at a hearing test. I was thinking about it and my experiences with Patients and I realised that really, you should bring a family member to many of your follow up appointments as well.

Jacoti bvba today announced that it has been named a CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree for Jacoti Hearing Suite. Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, independent engineers and members of the trade media to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products across 27 product categories.

I’ve updated the Audiogram Creator so that you can now show your audiogram results on different backgrounds. the original background is still there but you can now also choose from having a background with no decoration at all, one with speech sounds shown or one with speech sounds and the speech banana on it. The newly added background images use the UK classifications for hearing loss (normal, moderate, severe, etc) whereas the original

I’ve created a little online tool that allows you to enter your hearing test results onto an audiogram. At the moment it’s very basic but I’m hoping to add to it. You can enter the result for your left or right ear and then right-click on the audiogram to save it as a picture to your computer. I’d like to add some different audiogram graphs for you to put your results on: one that’s just an empty graph, one similar to the one I already have that

australiahears.com.au have an excellent article by Elaine Saunders called: Why is an audiogram commonly used as the basis for fitting a hearing aid? It explains how audiograms works and how they measures your hearing loss against a benchmark rather than your hearing ability. It also gives a brief history of measuring and diagnosing hearing loss. What’s most interesting though is this snippet: It’s an interesting point, I always understood the