MEMPHIS, TN–Robyn Cox, PhD, a prominent professor of audiology at the University of Memphis, has been awarded a 5-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research the effectiveness of hearing aids.
Cox will recruit subjects to use hearing aids in the school’s laboratory and in their daily lives while measuring their performance with different levels of technology. She will be assisted by two graduate students, Jani Johnson and Jingjing Xu.
Cox stated, “We want to know more about when it is worthwhile to spend what is needed to obtain hearing aids that are technologically advanced, versus when that level of technology is not really needed by a particular individual.” She added, “In the end, we hope to offer guidelines to hearing-impaired adults, and to practitioners who fit hearing aids, to help them choose the best technology for each individual.”
