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White hearing aids by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Hearing aids come in lots of cool colours and shapes these days but I’ve never seen a pure white one.White hearing aids would look quite a bit like iPod earphones and wo ... Read on »

Is automatic video captioning possible? by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness There are some manual captioning services around, captvids.com is one, that do manual captioning of videos. That’s cool but I’m wondering if it’s possible to ... Read on »

Sonova to enter CI market with $489 million acquisition by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness From a Sonova press release:ZURICH (Dow Jones)– Swiss hearing aid maker Sonova Holdings AG (SOON.VX) said Monday it is buying U.S.-based Advanced Bionics Corporation for ... Read on »

Community-built hearing aids by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Could we build a hearing aid? By we I mean me, you, the guy studying audiology at university, the hard of hearing electrical engineer and all the other people.In computer soft ... Read on »

Dr Craig Kasper talk about preserving and improving your hearing in NYC by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Studies have shown that humans’ capacity to hear affects the quality of our relationships and mental health, regulates physiology and can impact stress and income levels ... Read on »

UK hospitals and GP surgeries are failing the deaf and hard of hearing by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I don’t think that UK hospitals and GP surgeries are doing enough to make themselves accessible to their deaf and hard of hearing patients.Take my local GP surgery as an ... Read on »

Ex-footballer campaigns to change attitudes to deafness by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Pompey football legend Alan Knight spent years struggling to hear conversations. But now hearing aids have transformed his life and he is campaigning to change attitudes to de ... Read on »

What are programmable hearing aids? by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness All digital hearing aids are programmable. Some analogue hearing aids have programmable options too.What does programmable mean?It means that an audiologist can modify a heari ... Read on »

Starkey offers new, easy to use volume control by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Starkey have recently introduced touch controls to their S Series hearing aids, a feature they are calling Sweep.The BTE S Series models have a touch-sensitive area that takes ... Read on »

T-Shirts for the hard of hearing by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Sarah, who writes the Speak Up Librarian blog, has just launched a range of t-shirts for the hard of hearing. She says that the prints, “ express our communication needs ... Read on »

New software to boost voice recognition for hearing aid and cochlear implant users by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness This is from Science Daily:Hearing aids and cochlear implants act as tiny amplifiers so the deaf and hard-of-hearing can make sense of voices and music. Unfortunately, these d ... Read on »

Looking for Assistive Listening Device recommendations by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Can anyone recommend an Assistive Listening Device for one-to-one use at home? I know next to to nothing about ALDs, I’ve never used one – If you have and can reco ... Read on »

Starkey S Series: A review of its features by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I’ve been wearing a pair of Starkey’s new S Series hearing aids for about a month now. I have the in-the-canal (ITC) model. On Starkey’s website they list th ... Read on »

Where is all the hearing aid avertising? by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I see a lot of adverts in the newspapers and on the TV for glasses. Every day there are full-page adverts in the papers and prime-time adverts on the big TV channels. Everyone ... Read on »

First success story for Hearing Aid Market by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Hearing Aid Market has been up and running for a week now and it has already enabled someone to get a free pair of hearing aids!Carol kindly offered to donate her late Mother& ... Read on »

Controlling Starkey S Series with a mobile phone by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness The Starkey S Series hearing aids have a feature called T2. This basically enables you to control the hearing aid with a touch-tone mobile phone.Once your audiologist has swit ... Read on »

Deaf soldier wins £330K damages from Ministry Of Defence by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness A soldier has won £330,000 from the Ministry of Defence for hearing loss, after being told not to wear earplugs during a training exercise to make it more “battle ... Read on »

Sonic Innovations Parent Company Renamed Otix Global by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness Shareholders of Sonic Innovations Inc, Salt Lake City, overwhelmingly approved the renaming of Sonic Innovations Inc to Otix Global Inc at the company’s recent annual sh ... Read on »

The S Series from Starkey. by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness I have a new pair of Starkey’s S Series hearing aids - I got them fitted at Banbury Hearing Centre.Over the next few weeks I’m going to review their performance ag ... Read on »

Banbury Hearing Centre by Steve C. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Hearing Loss & Deafness If you live in or around Oxfordshire, UK then I highly recommend Banbury Hearing Centre as a great audiologist and hearing aid vendor.I’ve been there twice recently to b ... Read on »

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