Annoyance and Hearing Aids
Your article, ''Annoyance and Hearing Aids'' suggests several sources of user annoyance with amplification. How might digital signal processors impact ''annoyance'' issues?
View ArticleMarketing
What are the most effective and important issues to address when marketing to physicians?
View ArticleAdvertising in the local newspaper
If you were writing an advertisement for a local newspaper, what are the key ingredients that should be included in the advertisement (and why) and what should be avoided (and why)?
View ArticleMarketing via local service organizations
Regarding business communities, how important is it to be active in the local service organizations (Lions, Rotary, Better Business Bureau, etc.)? If you were lecturing at one of their meetings, what...
View ArticleFitting Rules and Hearing Aids
Regarding the multiplicity of fitting rules available for digital (and even non-digital) instruments, how do I choose a particular fitting rationale?
View ArticleBinaural Balance
In practice we sometimes bump into the binaural Hearing Aid fitting with the instruments of different technologies. I mean the situation when patient is fitted with analog (classic) instrument on one...
View ArticleWDRC for Mild Hearing Losses
For people with great degrees of loss can understand their dynamic range is less but for mild losses, we don't check for recruitment before prescription. How about a person having good low frequency...
View Article'Identity' Options in Oticon Syncro
Please explain when the "Identity" options/alternatives within the Syncro should be changed?
View ArticleCompression Strategy of Syncro
Can you tell me more about the compression strategy used in Syncro? How do I make it work best for the patient?
View ArticleHow Can I Give My Practice a Fresh Look, Without Spending a Fortune?
Question: I recently purchased an existing private practice that has operated for 20 years in my hometown. Although the practice has a good reputation and large patient base, it looks very outdated and...
View ArticleFinancial Considerations and Hearing Aid Counseling
How does the financial burden of hearing aids affect an audiologist's motivational interviewing during hearing aid counseling?
View ArticleStages of Grief as they Apply to Acceptance of Hearing Loss
Do the Kubler-Ross five stages of grief apply to people with hearing loss who are in denial?
View ArticleWhen Your Patient's Grown Children are Pushing for Hearing Aids
How do you deal with patients who don't want hearing aids, but their adult children want you to fit them with hearing aids anyway?
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