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May. 15, 2018

Navigating the Road Ahead, Part 3: What is a Mild or Moderate hearing problem?

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In Part 3 below, the authors take their forward-thinking views on hearing healthcare, which they shared with readers in Part 1 & Part 2, and apply them to the clinical realm.   by Terry Mactaggart and Errol Davis While many will applaud the coming regulatory changes permitting the sale of OTC hearing devices, we need to consider more carefully possible
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May. 08, 2018

The Continuum of Denial: Cultivating Change

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Last week, Paul Teie was a featured guest blogger at Innovations in Hearing Heathcare. This week, Paul joins his colleague, Cecelia Wickert, to share their thoughts on the subject of patient denial and how this common behavior affects treatment decisions.   This patient is “in denial”!  We all know what that implies.  The patient is blaming others for the hearing
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May. 02, 2018

Practical Application of Motivational Interviewing Techniques in the Hearing Clinic

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The concept of Motivational Interviewing (MI) was developed by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick to address treatment of problem drinkers (Miller & Rollnick 1991).  Over the last several years there have been a number of articles in the audiology literature about how the principles of MI might be applied to the counseling of hearing aid candidates (Harvey
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Apr. 16, 2018

The Importance of a Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond Helping a Patient Master Use of their Device, Part 2

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by Brian Taylor “Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD   The Importance of a Therapeutic Relationship   Hearing aid owners who participated in the study noted the importance of an effective working relationship between the clinician and the hearing aid user. Traits of a good therapeutic relationship with their clinician, such as awareness, understanding, knowledge
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Apr. 10, 2018

Hearing Aid Follow Up Care: Beyond Helping a Patient Master Use of their Device

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by Brian Taylor “Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD.   Nearly every patient fitted with hearing aids in a clinic returns for at least ten hours of additional follow-up care. Spread over the course of four or more years, these face-to-face visits with the clinician gobble up a lot of precious time, and even more
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Apr. 02, 2018

The Problem Might be Greater Than We Think: Navigating the Road Ahead, Part 2

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by Terry Mactaggart and Errol Davis Harry Abrams’ response (“Auditory Training – A Familiar Value Proposition in an Era of Revolutionary Change”) to our initial post (“Navigating the Road Ahead”) was appreciated. We agree with him that one key to future success is to focus on rehabilitation as a core offering and to contemplate ways that such services can be
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Mar. 06, 2018

Navigating the Road Ahead, Part 1

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Editor’s Note: There is a common aphorism among Silicon Valley technophiles that they need to move fast and break things. For years, this has long been Facebook’s mantra, and it’s a refrain that embodies the disruptors of our era; those willing to take big risks with their technological innovations and let the chips fall where they may – be it