Profession

Implantation overtakes hearing aid fitting in pediatric populations in Spain

Details: Published on 14 February 2019

TRENDS

For the first time, the sale of implants has overtaken that of hearing aids as the most-used technology for children in the treatment of hearing loss, as evidenced by the comparative data of two studies carried out in 2005 and 2018 by FIAPAS, (the Spanish confederation of families of deaf people).

Entries open for Europe's AOTY 2019 contest

Details: Published on 28 January 2019

AOTY2019

A leading industry competition will be opening for entries on Monday 28th January and the public across Europe will be able to nominate candidates for the title of ‘Audiologist of the Year 2019’.

MED-EL boosts the voice of European hearing device firms by joining EHIMA

Details: Published on 22 January 2019

manufacturers

The Austrian manufacturer MED-EL has joined the European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (EHIMA), a guild hitherto comprising GN Resound, William Demant Holding, Sonova, Sivantos, Starkey, and Widex.

Australia does playful science to scout hearing issues in AU$4m programme for school kids

Details: Published on 11 January 2019

Children

Back to school in Australia this January means a free hearing test made friendly and easy through a scientific tablet game designed to detect a range of hearing disorders: "Sound Scouts".

Canine factor boosts results in child speech therapy for developmental dysphasia

Details: Published on 10 January 2019

Therapy

Speech therapists working with children need all the help they can get, but few would honestly have predicted that scientific evidence would support bringing dogs into sessions.

Scrivens gives its top award to long-serving strategy manager

Details: Published on 18 December 2018

Chains

Pat Bulger (centre) receives Sasha Georgevic Award from Nicholas Georgevic (left) and Mark Georgevic (right). ©Scrivens

The expanding family-run UK opticians and hearing care chain, Scrivens, has honoured its veteran strategy director, Pat Bulger, with the firm's highest award.

Ethiopia sees its first ever speech-language pathology graduates

Details: Published on 11 December 2018

Co-operation

Homegrown speech-language pathologists who will stay and treat Ethiopia's hearing and speech disabled - the fruit of ongoing co-operation between an African and a Canadian university.

Cochlear implant pioneer gets a sweet taste of his own bionic medicine

Details: Published on 06 December 2018

CI

John Rice, a 1990's pioneer in Australian cochlear implant surgery for deaf children got his very own bionic hearing boost after an operation performed by one of his proteges.