Starkey found a 40% drop in their return-for-credit rate using LACE
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Starkey found a 40% drop in their return-for-credit rate using LACE

Interview with Melody Martin, Au.D., Ph.D., Owner, Martin Audiology Originally published in Audiology Online Topic: Texas Jam, EarStore and LACE Paul Dybala: Welcome, everybody. This is Dr. Paul Dybala with Audiology Online and today I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Melody Martin of Martin Audiology. She’s agreed to talk about some interesting and exciting…

Latest Study Proves Speech-in-Noise Training Works!
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Latest Study Proves Speech-in-Noise Training Works!

The authors concluded that “naturalistic training” that combines sensory and cognitive elements can enhance the central nervous system’s ability to encode acoustic cues, based on their empirical findings. Song et al report “…LACE training generalizes to standardized clinically utilized measures of speech-in-noise perception—a critical factor if (auditory) training is to have an impact on real-world…

You Don’t Need to Have a Hearing Loss to Benefit from LACE
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You Don’t Need to Have a Hearing Loss to Benefit from LACE

By Frank Butts, Ph.D.; Co-owner of Hearing Clinics of Virginia I am a bit out of the ordinary in the world of Audiology and dispensing of hearing aids, having earned my Audiology Ph.D. with a specialization in temporal masking, a form of central auditory processing, focusing on the aging auditory system. We have three offices in…

Dr. Sweetow Wins Distinguished Award in Audiology
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Dr. Sweetow Wins Distinguished Award in Audiology

Robert W. Sweetow, PhD, a clinical professor of otolaryngology and director of audiology at UCSF Medical Center since 1991, and co-developer of LACE has received the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Academy of Audiology. Sweetow received the award on April 2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The announcement of the award appeared in the American…

Study: Hearing Loss Affects Partners, Too

Study: Hearing Loss Affects Partners, Too

If you haven’t experienced it yourself, maybe you’ve observed it in parents or friends: the strain one person’s hearing loss can put on his or her primary relationships. An overview of the scientific literature, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology and summarized in Hearing Review, suggests that, indeed, hearing loss in…

The James Bond Hearing Aid

The James Bond Hearing Aid

A hearing aid that reads lips? What is this, the future? Actually, it’s the present. Scientists in Scotland are working on a hearing aid that has a tiny camera equipped with lip-reading software that uses facial recognition technology. The software translates the words into speech and plays it into the ear in real-time, so no…