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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"audiologist"”.
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A Customer-Centered, Strategic Marketing Plan and Advertising Campaign For Audiologists in the Plains States
… services and additional products for the audiologist. America is aging (i.e., "baby boomers") and the demographics are changing. Consumers are becoming more educated and modifed health care plans provide more choices than previously. Audiologists began dispensing hearing aids only 20 years …
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An Analysis of Time Spent with Patients during the First Year of a Hearing Aid Fitting and Possible Predictors of the Need for More Time
… a hearing aid takes time in the clinic with the audiologist. How much time impacts clinic pricing and programming, however, there has been minimal research thus far on this topic. Our study intended to fill this gap and identify any variables that might be predictive of the need for more time. …
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An Analysis of Time Spent with Patients During the First Year of a Hearing Aid Fitting and Possible Predictors of the Need for More Time
… a hearing aid takes time in the clinic with the audiologist. How much time impacts clinic pricing and programming, however, there has been minimal research thus far on this topic. Our study intended to fill this gap and identify any variables that might be predictive of the need for more time. …
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Remote hearing aid fitting
… costly process due to the cost of hearing aids, audiologists' hourly rates, and large travelling distances caused by regionally sparse audiologist populations. This dissertation is focused on the development of a system which aims at reducing the severity of this problem.
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Translation and Adaptation of the Self Assessment of Communication (SAC) and Significant Other Assessment of Communication (SOAC) into Afrikaans
… of the Afrikaans SAC and SOAC by South African audiologists through surveys and verbal feedback interviews. The AAOS translation and adaptation guideline is a multi-step translation method that involves five stages: (i) Forward Translation from the source language (English) to the target …
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Towards the identification of a contextually-relevant school hearing screening protocol in the Western Cape
… stemmed from my experience as a community-based Audiologist in the Mitchell's Plain sub-district in Cape Town, South Africa. During this time, I worked closely with the local school nurses and witnessed first-hand the many challenges that these health workers are faced with. Through my …
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The Effects of Occupational Ultrasonic Noise Exposure on Hearing in Dental Hygienists: A Pilot Study
… rate. Once the groups were formed, a certified audiologist tested subjects' hearing in each ear via the pure-tone audiometer and tympanogram.</p>
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Computer assisted audiometric evaluation system
… .and bone conduction transducer, patient and audiologist microphone amplifiers and a hand-held infra-red remote-control unit. A voice-operated gain-adjusting device on the audiologist's microphone eliminates the need for a sound pressure level meter during speech tests. The software-based …
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Exploring Hearing Aid Use in Older Adults through Narratives
… for audiologic research, practice, and audiologist education.
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An Ethnographic Survey Focusing on Delivery of Audiologic Services to Students in Public Schools in the State of Missouri
… associated with the employment of an educational audiologist. Results also suggest that compliance in all models may be improved by modifying current procedures.
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Relationship between electrical and acoustical characteristics of amplification systems and reduced auditory sensitivity
… have been explored. Consequently, the audiologist must make a number of rather arbitrary judgements with little concrete information to support his recommendation of a given instrument. He has limited means of clinically determining the sustainability of the instrument for the …
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Auditory characteristics and balance function of diabetic patients
… in diabetes prevalence should be a concern for audiologists with increasing literature linking diabetes with the risk of acquiring hearing and balance disorders. However, there is currently a lack of research done in South Africa to investigate auditory and balance disorders in patients with …
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Literacy Development in School-Aged Children With Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implants
… with a hearing loss through UNHS or an Audiologist between birth and 21 months of age. Eight students, 2 females and 6 males, ranged in age between 5.5 and 9.1 years old, placing them in senior kindergarten to Grade 4 at initial time of testing. One participant withdrew after Phase 1, …
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Development of an ABA Tool Kit for Audiologists to Increase Hearing Aid Wear Time in Individuals with Autism
… hearing loss and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), audiologists are often faced with unique challenges and must adapt their approach in order to more effectively address the needs of these individuals. Currently, there is only a small body of research focused on the special considerations required …
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Hearing Health Awareness among Medical Practitioners Managing Patients with Diabetes in South Africa
… in counselling sessions, MPs' familiarity on the audiologist's role in the management of DM related auditory symptoms and the relationship between MP's familiarity with the role of an audiologist and counselling on DM related auditory symptoms. Research design. The study employed a descriptive …
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Die toepaslikheid van 'n Afrikaanse vertaling van die Scan-C : test for auditory processing disorders in children-revised vir voorskoolse leerders (Afrikaans)
… reviewed by speech-language therapists and/or audiologists as well as Grade R teachers (n = 11) by means of a customized questionnaire to determine appropriateness of the STOPA. A pilot study was conducted on Grade R learners (n = 10) before the STOPA was finalized and recorded. In Phase III …
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The challenges and coping strategies of communication partners of older adults with disabling hearing loss using assistive hearing technology. a South African study
… as an interview guide administered by an audiologist. The information from this study can be used to provide support to other CPs as well as enhance the success of audiological rehabilitation for PHLs through a family centred approach.
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Patients' Perceptions of Person-Centred Care in Audiology: A South African Cross-Sectional Survey
… now studies have focused mainly on PCC from the audiologists' point of view; with few exploring the perceptions of PCC (P-PCC) held by patients, particularly within a South African context. One reason for this may be due to the variability around the definition of PCC among professionals. …
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Caregivers' experiences, perspectives and expectations regarding diagnosis and management in children with MMHL: Information and support
… MMHL. Caregivers expressed satisfaction with the audiologist management however gaps such as poor provision of written information and social support groups were observed as dissatisfactions. Most caregivers delayed the process of seeking hearing health care by using traditional medicine which in …
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Inclusive education in South Africa : the challenges posed to the teacher of the child with a hearing loss
… with four parents, five speech therapist/audiologist and four teachers (all actively involved in inclusion programmes) and these results were used to substantiate findings from the questionnaire survey. The results of this study indicate that the teachers in regular education as well as …
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