This Week in Hearing

Signia, and its predecessor Siemens, has an impressive legacy of innovation geared toward enhancing the real-world performance of individuals with hearing loss. In this episode of This Week in Hearing, Bob and Brian recap many of the key milestones in the history of hearing aid technology over the past 75 years.

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Last week, GN Hearing announced the acquisition of New York based Lively – a leading online direct-to-consumer hearing care retailer for approximately $95 million dollars.  

GN Hearing CEO, Gitte Aabo, returns to This Week in Hearing to discuss the motivation behind the acquisition with Dr. Bob Traynor. The pair discuss how the move strengthens GN's position to better meet the needs of consumers with hearing loss by combining the online offering from Lively along with the company's network of independent professionals that can provide service in-person.  

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Hearing aids have never been so sophisticated, yet uptake and consistent daily use often lag behind technological innovation.   In this episode of This Week in Hearing, Bec Bennett, PhD, researcher at the Ear Science Institute in Perth Australia sits down with Brian Taylor to discuss her research on under-reported hearing aid problems and how they can be handled by clinicians.    

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In this week’s technology spotlight, Dr. Bob Traynor speaks with Robert Koch, the President and Founder of hearing healthcare startup, AHead Simulations. Koch's company has developed and commercialized CARL, a simulator used widely in audiology training programs across the US and Canada. 

The pair discuss how simulators, like CARL, can help enhance and improve the clinical training process and how they can also be used effectively for patient education.  

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Age-related hearing loss is a common problem in adults, and it might be starting earlier than we think. Courtney Coburn Glavin, a PhD candidate, at Northwestern University sits down with Dr. Brian Taylor to review her research using DPOAEs to identify hearing loss of early onset in young adults and the clinical implications of her work.   

They also discuss the limitations of the pure tone audiogram and intervention strategies for people with subclinical forms of hearing loss.   

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This Week in Hearing co-hosts, Dave Kemp, Bob Traynor, Amyn Amlani, and Brian Taylor, reflect on insights they've gained and key takeaways they've learned from more than 25 interviews with industry experts.   

The lively discussion centers around the evolving landscape of hearing health - from hearing care delivery, to regulations, changing technology and the convergence with consumer audio.  

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This special edition of This Week in Hearing is a candid discussion on the health care landscape, as provided by two accomplished and distinguished physicians: Dr. Ardeshir Z. Hashmi, Endowed Chair of Geriatric Innovation and Section Chief of the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, and Dr. Fred Ma, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Cognivue, Inc.   

The discussion is grounded on their experiences in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of aging persons with cognitive decline, and leads to an open invitation for audiologists to play an increased role in improving service delivery to this population in the United States.  

This Week in Hearing is thankful to Cognivue for sponsoring this webcast.  

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The role of cognitive screenings in audiology practice has been and continues to be a topic of discussion. In this special edition of This Week in Hearing, HHTM is partnering with the Academy of Doctors of Audiology to bring our viewers a recording of the Panel Session entitled, “Understanding the Relationship between Cognitive Decline and Hearing Loss,” that occurred during the AuDacity Audiology Unleashed Conference held in Portland, Oregon on October 26th.

In this session, three audiologists—Dr. Alicia Spoor, Dr. Heidi Hill, and Dr. Jill Davis—share how they incorporate and apply various cognitive screenings in their practices. The panel session is bookended by an introduction by Dr. Pam Souza on the scope and need for audiologists to consider cognitive screenings as part of everyday clinical practice, and concludes with a brief summary of varying state licensure guidelines provided by Dr. Amyn Amlani.

This Week in Hearing would also like to recognize and thank Cognivue for sponsoring this event.

The benefits of aural rehabilitation (AR) for people with hearing loss has been well established for decades. Yet, for a variety of reasons, very few people diagnosed with hearing loss today receive any kind of AR training or support.  

In this issue of This Week in Hearing, host Amyn Amlani has a conversation with one of the leading voices in AR, Nancy Tye-Murray, co-founder and CEO of Amptify, alongside her colleague Chris Cardinal, Amptify's President and COO.   

The trio discuss the origins of the Amptify's platform, how it benefits clinicians and their patients with hearing loss and how the company is pioneering digital therapeutics in the hearing health industry by modeling successful strategies used in other fields.

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Ever wish you could fine-tune the frequency response of your favorite electronic devices? Well, Mimi Hearing Technologies allows you to do this in products that license their software development toolkit (SDK).  

In this issue of This Week in Hearing, host Amyn Amlani has a conversation with Mimi's Chief Research Officer, Sarah Voice, about their technology to test hearing sensitivity, their SDK applications, their integration with Apple Health, and a discussion on Mimi’s report on the World Hearing Index.    

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