Hearing Aid Technology

The future of hearing aid technology.

Hearing aids have advanced significantly over the past decade, primarily due to the maturing of digital technology. The next decade should see an even greater number of innovations to hearing aid technology, and this article attempts to predict in which areas the new developments will occur. Both incremental and radical innovations in digital hearing aids will be driven by research advances in ...

Cellion primax: The New Benchmark in Rechargeable Hearing Aid Technology

Auditory profiling and hearing-aid satisfaction in hearing-aid candidates.

INTRODUCTION Hearing-impaired (HI) listeners often complain about difficulties communicating in the presence of background noise, although audibility may be restored by a hearing-aid (HA). The audiogram typically forms the basis for HA fitting, i.e. people with similar audiograms are given the same prescription by default. This study aimed at identifying clinically relevant tests that may serve...

Technology, expectations, and adjustment to hearing loss: predictors of hearing aid outcome.

This study examined the influence of technology, demographic factors, and prefitting expectations, attitudes, and adjustment to hearing loss on hearing aid outcome. Clients obtaining new hearing aids completed questionnaires measuring personal adjustment to hearing loss, expectations of and attitudes toward hearing aids, and hearing aid benefit. Eighty-one percent of the 200 subjects completing...

Directional Hearing Aid Design

In this proposal we describe our intent to build a directional hearing aid under the guidance of Professor Erik Cheever and E. Carr Everbach. Currently, there is a need for reliable and effective hearing aid designs and we will attempt to implement one given our undergraduate background in engineering. This project will demonstrate our interdisciplinary education at Swarthmore College through t...