The field of Audiology in India has expanded exponentially in recent years. Audiologists practice in a variety of work places. However, little is known about the practice trends across these several work places. An Internet-based survey probing into Audiology practice was conducted between June and September 2012. The survey focused on four domains, namely, demography, assessment, hearing aid (...

Accessible Summary Annual health checks for people with learning disabilities should include a check of hearing. However, this hearing only involves asking questions about and does not an actual test. We tested the in community. found that some had problems been picked up at their annual check. think be changed to Abstract Background primary care assessment, though current guidance recommends s...

Purpose The authors investigate the role of people-related Total Quality Management (TQM) practices, specifically metaperceptions, in hearing care students' vocational decision-making. In Italy, audiologists are health professionals and must hold a degree care. They operate according to clinical principles but also develop marketing commercial skills. While employers take these aspects for gran...

BACKGROUND Paediatric audiology services and screening programmes are currently under review. AIMS AND METHODS To investigate current practice and performance of the school hearing screening programme (SHSP) by means of a questionnaire. RESULTS SHSP was found to detect previously unrecognised hearing loss at low cost. Wide variation in practice was shown, and the majority of services had no...

Audiology clinics are increasingly being asked to provide tinnitus treatment services to patients who are severely distressed by tinnitus. It is unclear what levels of tinnitus care are available at different audiology clinics across the nation. Some clinics have staff who are experienced with the tinnitus masking technique or with tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT), whereas other clinics may li...

An eye-tracking paradigm was developed for use in audiology in order to enable online analysis of the speech comprehension process. This paradigm should be useful in assessing impediments in speech processing. In this paradigm, two scenes, a target picture and a competitor picture, were presented simultaneously with an aurally presented sentence that corresponded to the target picture. At the s...