Purpose: The purpose of this article is to review the literature that pertains to ongoing concerns regarding the central auditory processing construct among school-aged children and to assess whether the degree of uncertainty surrounding central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) warrants a change in current protocols. Method: Methodology on this topic included a review of relevant and recent ...

* Specialist in Clinical and Educational Audiology at the Craniofacial Anomalies Rehabilitation Hospital of the University of São Paulo (HRAC-USP) and Master’s Degree in “General Bases of Surgery” at the Medicine College of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP campus Botucatu SP). Clinical Phonoaudiologist. ** Doctor’s Degree. Head Professor of the Universidade Es...

[Johanna Gribble]: Technological advances in recent years have resulted in a dramatic increase in the possibilities offered by teleaudiology, the ability to deliver audiology services via telecommunications technologies. These advances could improve access for a range of services including diagnostic audiology and remote hearing aid fittings, downloadable hearing aid applications, or even real-...

1Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Centre, School of Rehabilitation, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 2Department of Health Services Administration, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran 3Department of Audiology, School of Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Hearing and Speech Research Ce...

Objective audio quality assessment is an interdisciplinary research area that incorporates audiology and machine learning. Although much work has been made on the machine learning aspect, the audiology aspect also deserves investigation. This thesis proposes a non-intrusive audio quality assessment algorithm, which is based on an auditory model that simulates human auditory system. The auditory...

The members of the profession of audiology often express concern that the services and products that have been developed to provide benefit to the hearing impaired are not sought after or delivered to the majority of those diagnosed with hearing loss. A critical look at the status quo of hearing care delivery in the United States is needed to verify this assumption and to develop strategies to ...

BACKGROUND In future, the South African Department of Health aims to purchase services from accredited private service providers. Successful private audiology practices can assist to address issues of access, equity and quality of health services. It is not sufficient to be an excellent clinician, since audiology practices are businesses that must also be managed effectively. OBJECTIVE The ob...

Selection bias often invalidates conclusions about populations based on clinical convenience samples. A recent paper in this journal makes two surprising assertions about noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS): first, that there is more NIPTS at 2 kHz than at higher frequencies; second, that NIPTS declines with advancing age. Neither assertion can be supported with the data presented, ...