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Lawsuit leads to policy changes that accommodate deaf arrestees

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By Fred Cohen Douglas Bahl, an advocate for the deaf, teaches American Sign Language (ASL) at the University of Minnesota. He reads English at a sixth-grade level, and usually communicates in ASL, though he uses a Blackberry handheld device to communicate by text and email. When Bahl communicates with non-ASL speakers in person, he typically uses an interpreter or alternatively

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Are Audiologists the Problem? As Usual, It Depends

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“The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.” John D Rockefeller Recent posts at Hearing Economics have put forth the position that independent hearing healthcare providers — Audiologists and dispensers — are like wheat farmers, in the sense that they are toiling away in fields, under the hot sun, hoping their harvest is not

When a Drug Reaction leads to a horrible TEN (Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis)

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This week I am writing about Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN), which came to my attention when one of our patients reported that he has been dealing with this for the past year. TEN is a potentially life-threatening dermatologic disorder characterized by widespread erythema, necrosis and bullous (blisters or bullae on the skin), a detachment of the epidermis (skin) and mucous membranes

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Government Regulation of Hearing Healthcare, part 2

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Several posts ago, Hearing Economics looked at the Supply Curve in a free market and likened independent Audiologists to wheat farmers, in the sense that they exercise little if any influence on Pricing. That post evoked comment from a regular reader: C: Holly, you using the analogy of how hearing aid professionals are like wheat farmers is bitterly ironic, as

Eleven misconceptions teachers should know about children with hearing loss

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By Janice Schacter Lintz (1) People with hearing loss are older adults. According to NIDCD and the Better Hearing Institute, of the 36 million people in the United States with some degree of hearing loss, only 30% are 65 or older. (2) A child who responds to sound does not have a hearing loss. Hearing loss is a

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But That Would Be Wrong: Ethics of Stealing and Deception

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Last time Hearing Economics described thefts and deceptions in professional settings. Transgressions were bizarre, some absurd, but all actually happened. Most were illegal; all received some form of punishment. The point was that owners and managers are responsible for imposing and enforcing checks and balances in hearing healthcare environments in order to protect patients, staff, and assets from theft and manipulation.

Bad attitudes toward hearing and hearing loss abound: Any ideas to improve them?

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By David H. Kirkwood The science and technology available to treat hearing loss improve by the day, yet it sometimes seems that society’s attitudes toward hearing, hearing loss, and those who have it are as backward as ever. A particularly terrible example of stupidity and insensitivity toward those who can’t hear was reported this week by an investigative television news

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Safes Are Designed to Keep Honest People Out

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We interrupt this series of Econ 101 posts to bring you something a bit closer to home with no graphs or subscripts. I cannot speak for my readers, but I for one am tired of thinking about Classical Economics, Supply and Demand Curves, and Price in general. So… let’s do a Scarlett O’Hara and think about that tomorrow. Today, let’s think

Five more good reasons for university programs to seek audiology accreditation

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The following is the third and final part of Dr. Roeser’s series on accreditation of university audiology programs. The first two were published in the July 4 and July 25 editions of Hearing Views. By Ross J. Roeser As I have discussed here in two previous Hearing Views, proper accreditation of university programs that educate future audiologists is very

Cardiovascular Disease with a Little Hearing Loss on the Side

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Continuing my series on health topics as they relate to hearing loss, we come to Cardiovascular Disease (CV). Cardiovascular disease includes both Heart Disease and strokes which are the number one and two killers in our society today, accounting for 33.6% of all deaths in the US .This disease is also one of the most preventable. Physicians feel that early