New Pathways to Care: How Self-Directed Care Could Change Audiology….For the Better Part 2
Two broad categories of patients – help seekers with hearing devices and help seekers without hearing devices – will benefit from new forms of counseling and customization in a market landscape where persons with hearing loss can self-direct their care. Part 1 examined self-fitting hearing aids and the role audiologists could play in their selection…
Read MoreNew Pathways to Care: How Patient-Driven Hearing Aids Could Change Audiology….For the Better, Part 1
New forms of counseling and customization – services that complement existing best practice clinical protocols — are needed for audiology to remain a sustainable profession in the era of patient-driven hearing aid fittings Last Friday, October 5, in what was perceived by many to be a surprise move, the FDA approved a Bose self-fitting hearing…
Read MoreHelping People Recapture Conversations: Lessons from Berth Danermark
by Brian Taylor “Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD. About a year ago, I had the privilege of co-authoring a book with Vinaya Manchaiah of Lamar University. We never expected the book, titled The Role of Communication Partners in the Audiological Rehabilitation, to be a big seller (I can…
Read MoreWords Matter: Does Vapid Chatter About Hearing Aids Cause Patient Harm?
by Brian Taylor “Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD. Last fall, JAMA published a thought-provoking commentary on the unnecessary harm caused by the words used by physicians. Known as iatrogenesis, the inadvertent occurrence of a disease or illness caused by a physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure…
Read MoreThe Importance of a Therapeutic Relationship: Beyond Helping a Patient Master Use of their Device, Part 2
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,…
Read MoreHearing Aid Follow Up Care: Beyond Helping a Patient Master Use of their Device
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…
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