Early identification of Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD) is vital to ensure your child’s learning abilities are not impaired in the long-term. The National Acoustic Laboratories state that CAPD could affect up to 5% of children. This could be giving them auditory fatigue when trying to concentrate in the classroom. Common signs of a potential Central …
A couple of months ago there was a great expose on ABC Radio National concerning commissions and hearing aid sales. It has really opened up an awareness and started conversations about the ethics of having commissions in hearing healthcare and the lack of disclosure of this practice.
As part of my day to day work I look at online research on hearing and subsequent rehabilitation treatment. Consequently my browser analyses my search data and I am bombarded with a lot of hearing aid company ads popping up, and in a worrying trend some of these are for online sales. Here is my …
Queensland Vestibular’s early experiences with the Phonak Lyric invisible hearing aid I first heard about Lyric at an American Academy of Audiology conference several years ago. Like most clinicians my initial thoughts were sceptical. How could it be healthy for a device to sit in your ear canal for months at a time? Surely going …
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