Tagged: audiologist

Your next hearing aid could be a video game - Guest Work

Guest Author • Feb 08, 2018 •

• amplify,
• audio,
• audiologist,
• behaviour,
• ear,
• hearing aids,
• neuroscience,
• practice,
• speech,
• technology,
• Training,
• video games

Dana Boebinger, Harvard University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Roughly 15 percent of Americans report some sort of hearing difficulty; trouble understanding conversations in noisy environments is one of the most common complaints. Unfortunately, there’s not much doctors or audiologists can do. Hearing aids can amplify things for … Read More

Hearing healthcare in NZ’s future - News

Erica Mather • Aug 11, 2015 •

• aging,
• audiologist,
• demography,
• healthcare,
• hearing loss,
• New Zealand,
• population

It has been well established that New Zealand’s population is aging. Studies have been conducted to assess the impact of the increasing incidence of chronic illnesses on healthcare services, but the burden of hearing loss has been overlooked. A greater proportion of the New Zealand’s population is living longer, meaning that centrally-funded health and social resources are being put … Read More