BACKGROUND In the UK, audiology services deliver the majority of tinnitus patient care, but not all patients experience the same level of service. In 2009, the Department of Health released a Good Practice Guide to inform commissioners about key aspects of a quality tinnitus service in order to promote equity of tinnitus patient care in UK primary care, audiology, and in specialist multi-discip...

Authors' objectives To undertake a systematic review of the evidence relating to community provisions of NHS hearing aids and related audiology services for adults. The review was supplemented by primary research: a national 'provider survey' of NHS audiology/hearing aid service managers, a 'community clinic survey' involving a sample of all NHS audiology/hearing aid centres and a costing study...

The present report provides an overview of terminology studies in audiology including topics and study characteristics, as well as categorizing the main issues. The goals are to improve the understanding of the current issues for terminology in audiology and to provide some basic information that will be useful to develop an international standard. Search procedures were completed over two phas...

INTRODUCTION Audiology students should possess clinical competence and skills. To achieve this, their clinical skills must be properly assessed. The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a standard and fair examination of clinical competence. The goal of this study is to devise a checklist of OSCE examination criteria and study their validity and reliability for assessing the clin...

ate program. This would leave 2 years of master’s work for truly advanced education and clinical work. This structure could parallel that in speech-language pathology; undergraduate audiology majors would receive two surveytype courses in speech-language pathology, just as current speech-language pathology majors receive such coursework in audiology. The focus, however, would be on audiology an...

BACKGROUND Infants who do not pass their newborn hearing screen require diagnostic follow-up visits but often face access barriers such as travel distance and shortage of pediatric audiologists. Telemedicine (tele-audiology) is a potential solution to provide diagnostic hearing evaluations for families of infants facing access barriers. We determined the feasibility and impact of a tele-audiolo...

Purpose: To present recent studies that used the ultrasound in the fields of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, which evidence possibilities of the applicability of this technique in different subareas. Research strategy: A bibliographic research was carried out in the PubMed database, using the keywords “ultrasonic,” “speech,” “phonetics,” “Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences,” “voice,...

ABSTRACT: Purpose: Telepractice and other technological advances are being widely adopted to increase access to, improve the efficiency of, and potentially decrease the cost of speech-language and audiology services. Although use of the telepractice service delivery model is proliferating, little descriptive information is known about the training that is available to preservice graduate studen...

background & objectives: the purpose of this study was evaluating the hearing status of tinnitus patients referred to our center. materials & methods: a total of 144 patients, referred to our center by the end of december 2008 to june 2009, who have tinnitus complaints after initial examination and cleaning the ear duct in the audiology clinic were introduced and completed the questionn...