This Week in Hearing

In January of 2022, Soundwave Hearing announced the launch of its new self-fitting Sontro AI hearing aids and mobile app.  In this week's episode, Soundwave CEO, Anthony Florek, and company CTO, Christopher Boven, sit down with host Bob Traynor to talk about the development of the company's technology and their plans to partner with the audiology community to offer Sontro AI devices as a 'starter hearing aid' to their patients who might otherwise go untreated.  

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As hearing aids and consumer audio devices converge, a wider range of people with hearing difficulties will have choices on the type of product they want to wear. At the heart of this convergence are transducers.   

In this episode of This Week in Hearing, find out how Knowles Electronics, a household name in the hearing care business, has been leading innovation for more than 50 years.   

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Is it possible that the FDA's proposed rule on OTC hearing aids is obsolete, even before it becomes finalized? Andy Bellavia and Dave Kemp discuss how the long-awaited regulations from the FDA may already be obsolete, five years after being signed into law.  

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This week, Dr. Kathy Dowd, Executive Director of The Audiology Project, joins host Amyn Amlani in discussing the connection between hearing loss and diabetes, as well as the role audiologists play in the management of patients with diabetes.  

Until recently, the comorbidity of hearing loss, balance and diabetes was unknown to many agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but that has begun to change thanks in large part to the advocacy efforts of Dr. Dowd and The Audiology Project.  

Starting in 2021, the CDC now recommends a baseline hearing test at the time of diagnosis and annually thereafter.  

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In today's episode, Dr. Richard Gans, the Executive Director and Founder of the American Institute of Balance, and Tom O'Neill, the President and CEO of Cognivue, join Dave Kemp to discuss the benefits of expanding the traditional service offerings found in most audiology clinics today.

They discuss how expanding beyond traditional hearing services, audiologists can not only survive, but thrive and grow their clinics by becoming a key expert and resource in their local community. 

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A group in the United Kingdom has re-innovated how to test hearing sensitivity using five bird calls in a forest soundscape. The bird calls are digitized and occupy similar frequencies to that of a traditional pure-tone test. The rationale behind this re-innovation was developed using design-thinking strategies based on a patient’s story of hearing loss. 

In this episode of This Week in Hearing, Tom Woods of the architecture and design practice of Kennedy Woods, joins host, Amyn Amlani, in discussing the motivation, and future application and integration of their efforts in humanizing the hearing-test experience.

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Otolith Labs is pioneering the first medical wearable for the treatment of vertigo, a symptom experienced by more than 15 million Americans. Company CEO, Samuel Owen, and Chief Science Officer, Dr. Didier Depireux, join host Bob Traynor for a discussion of their promising new wearable technology under development for patients with vertigo.  

The novel technology has been validated by several clinical studies, including multiple independent studies at universities and with leading automotive manufacturers. Otolith hopes to have FDA approval of their device by late 2023.  

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This week, host Dave Kemp is joined by Dr. Edmund Farrar and Anna Pugh of UK-based startup: Oto  Oto is an app-based digital health solution for people suffering from tinnitus. Over the past year, the company has witnessed significant growth and aims to expand access to more people with tinnitus through its platform "using accessible, science-backed and evidence-based digital tools".  

In January, the company announced it had raised £510,000 and was selected for the renowned Y Combinator startup accelerator program. In addition, the company recently announced a global collaboration for tinnitus support with Australian hearable maker, Nuheara.  

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As the U.S. population becomes more diverse, it is imperative for hearing care professionals to provide patient centered care to everyone. Many clinicians around the country, however, lack the necessary tools to meet the needs of those from diverse cultural backgrounds. 

Our topic today is why inclusiveness is so beneficial in today's world and how you can bring it to life in your practice. Audiologist, public health expert and entrepreneur, Alejandra Ullauri shares her great new book, Audiology Services in Diverse Communities: A Tool to Help Clinicians Working with Spanish-Speaking Patients and Families, as well as her language training service for those who want to improve their Spanish for use in a medical setting.

To learn more about Dr. Ullauri’s services, mentioned in this broadcast  go to https://www.audiologyenespanol.com

To purchase her book go to Plural Publishing.

This week, host Dave Kemp is joined by Nick Morgan-Jones and Gray Dawdy of Decibels.   Nick has needed hearing aids since the age of 10, but was turned off by the stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.    

In 2021, Nick started Decibels (originally Butterfly Audio) and video blogged his journey along the way. Working with his friend and designer, Gray Dawdy, the pair designed and tested a number of iterations along the way.  Their goal is to make their hearing enhancers available to everyone who wants to have hearing devices that look as good as they sound.  

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