We examined the prevalence, severity, etiology, and treatment of audiology problems among Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). A retrospective chart review was performed of 250 Veterans with mild TBI. Results of a comprehensive second-level mild TBI evaluation and subsequent visits to audiology were evaluated. We found the...

Pharmacotherapy-induced ototoxicity is growing, especially in developing countries such as South Africa. This highlights the importance of ototoxicity monitoring and management of hearing loss. This article focuses on the establishment of an ototoxicity clinic as a site for the implementation of a service-learning module in the Audiology programme. The clinic offers a unique opportunity of coll...

Virtual Patients (VPs) have been successful in health education to promote and foster communication. Additionally, computer simulations offer the advantage of being standardized, repeatable, and do not require as much resources as role-play simulations. The research presented in this paper offers to explore the impact of a Clinical Audiology Simulator (CAS) using virtual patients technology on ...

4. Community-based outreach is a strategy based on the assumption that a. older African Americans are disinterested in their own health care. b. older African Americans are reluctant to leave their communities. c. it is impossible to fully understand an individual without knowing his or her community. d. it is impossible to effectively deliver audiology and speechlanguage pathology services to ...

PURPOSE To verify the effect of two approaches of vocal training in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology students, a direct and an indirect approach. METHODS Participants were 25 female Speech Language Pathology and Audiology students divided into two groups: direct training with vocal exercises, DTG (n=13); and indirect training with vocal orientations, ITG (n=12). The training sessions w...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this research is to find the factors associated with tinnitus masker from the literature, and by using the large amount of audiology data available from a large NHS (National Health Services, UK) hearing aid clinic. The factors evaluated were hearing impairment, age, gender, hearing aid type, mould and clinical comments. DESIGN The research includes literature surv...