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ADHD: Another
Elephant in the Living Room
Hearing health professionals must become involved in children's
cognitive issues. This expose reveal strong evidence of a huge oversight
by society that needs attention by the hearing health field.
Alzheimer's & Hearing Loss
Includes the following articles: (1) The Absence of Hearing Healthcare
in a so-called Tidal Wave of
Alzheimer's
Made Worse By Uncorrected Hearing Loss: The Inside Story
Alzheimer's is predicted to afflict almost epidemic proportions of the
elderly in the coming decades
Alzheimer's
Overdiagnosis Resulting from Lack of Auditory Assessment
A thorough literature search on why most Alzheimer's diagnoses is
inconclusive
Alzheimer's Prevention Workshop (Slide Presentation)
Subtopics: Most older adults diagnosed with Alzheimer's simply have
uncorrected hearing loss with normal aging factors.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Includes the following articles: (1) Summary Guide to ADA Hearing
Empowerment (2) Underutilization of the Americans with Disabilities Act
of 1990
Assistive Devices
Inexpensive and Alternative Ways to Address Hearing Loss
Audition & Cognition Within a Habilitative/Rehabilitative Framework
(Slide Presentation)
Aural
Rehabilitation I
Includes the following article: The Need for Aural Rehabilitation in
Today's Dispensing Practice
Aural
Rehabilitation II
Includes the following article: The Need for Aural Rehabilitation in
Today's Dispensing Practice Part II
Aural
Rehabilitation III
Includes the following article: The Need for Aural Rehabilitation in
Today's Dispensing Practice Part III
Caffeine
Intoxication & Withdrawal: Growing Public Health Menace
Caffeine and popular high-dose commercial products are fast becoming a
public threat on par with tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs,
especially for the young and old.
Cochlear
Implants 2002
Facts About Cochlear Implants
Cognitive
Development
Includes the following article: A Cognitive Development Primer for
Parents
Cognitive
Effects of Hearing Loss
Includes the following article: Cognitive Manifestations in Unmitigated
Hearing Loss
Dehydration,
Diuretics & Adverse Effects Upon Human Hearing
Includes the following articles: (1) How Much Water Should You be
Drinking Daily (2) Overuse of Diuretics and Hypertensive Medication too
Often Causes Communicative, Cognitive Dangers
Demographic Study of
the U.S. Hearing Impaired Market
Includes the following: Hard-hitting slide presentation chock full of
insights
Diabetes &
Hearing Health 2003
Diabetes is sweeping through the senior population like an epidemic with
profound implications in hearing health. This paper explores vital
points of consideration for the practitioner.
Diabetes
Mellitus II & Hearing Health Complications
This is a must-take professional education course for all hearing health
and medical professionals
DigiCare
Multimodal Tinnitus Management Program Prospectus
Building upon several tinnitus management models, the DigiCare program
addresses the three major contributors of tinnitus in a
multidisciplinary setting.
DigiCare Network:
Changing the Way the World Delivers Hearing Healthcare
This is a summarized description of membership benefits and how DigiCare
can transform your practice into an educational and interdisciplinary
engine in your community.
Digital Audio
Chemistry
Preliminary R&D Notes
Digital Audio Chemistry R&D Notes Update (DAC Fact Sheet)
Digital Audio Chemistry by DigiTech offers hearing aid users advanced
technological features unparalleled in the industry.
Digital
Hearing Aids by DigiTech: Technology Review (DigiTech Tech
Explanation Sheet)
Organized into four technology classes of technology, the Point-O Series
allows for continuous research & development and faster launch to
market.
Earmold Models-DigiCare
Earwax impaction and
removal: Why Q-tips Are a Danger
The author explains why mechanical self-cleaning makes for unhealthy
ears, including impacted earwax, outer ear infection, and failed hearing
aid trials.
Ethics & Professionalism in
Dispensing Practice
Features a detailed dialogue as a companion to the CE slide presentation
by the same topic. of the slide presentation.
Ethics & Professionalism
in Dispensing Practice: The Seminar
Includes the following slide presentation:
External Ear Care
Slide Presentation by Max Stanley Chartrand.
External Canal Keratin For Fitting Success
FDA Red Flags
Includes the following article: OBSERVATION AND REFERRAL: The FDA Red
Flags
Fitting
Complaints: Sherlock's Solutions
From the popular Sherlock & Watson Series comes a summary guide for
resolving problem fitting cases.
Glossary of Operational
Terms
Features abbreviated terminology and definitions utilized in counseling
the hearing impaired.
Hearing
Aid Manipulation Training
This study consisted of training very elderly hearing aid patients who
needed more than the traditional hearing aid training.
Hearing Aid Market: What's Really Holding it Back?
Hearing Review - If a Tree Fell in the Forest
Hearing
Evaluation in the Dispensing Practice, Part I
The author explores counseling principles and implications for testing
for purposes of amplification.
Hearing
Evaluation in the Dispensing Practice, Part II
Second of a series, this section explores counseling principles and
implications the evaluation may have upon recommendation for hearing
instrumentation.
Human Brain and Nervous System--Course Notes
Hybrid Hearing Aid
Technology
A short treatise on advancements in hearing aid technology where
multiple technologies are joined together.
IHS Digicare
Workshop
Keratin: A Primer for
Hearing Health Professionals
Karatin protein in the human ear canal is one of the most important, yet
neglected, physiological protection mechanisms of the healthy ear.
Lemon Laws & Hearing
Aids
A letter by the author, which expounds on the falacies of including
hearing aids under State lemon laws, and the additional stress it adds
to the cost and accessibility of quality hearing healthcare.
Miracell: Video Otoscopy
Observations in Practice
Over a 20 month period, the author and associates observed positive
changes in the ear health of patients who utilized Miracell Botanicals
in preparation for their new hearing aids.
Neuroreflexes of the External Auditory Canal
Pathogenic
Bacteria
Includes the following: Pathogenic Bacteria Lecture Questions:
Host-Parasite Interactions
pH of the Human Body: A Monologue
Prison Population
Communicative Disorders Information
The prison population suffers from an extraordinarily high rate of
untreated communicative disorders, most of which appeared during early
childhood.
Prison Staff
In-Service Training Workshop
Features a revealing and vital powerpoint slide presentation given to
prison counseling/healthcare staff.
Sleep
Deprivation & Auditory Rehabilitation
Features a highly revealing expose on the often tragic effects of sleep
deprivation on the success of auditory rehabilitation.
TA2002 Study Design &
Prospectus
Features a summary on the study design of the DigiCare-sponsored
Tinnitus & Amplification 2002 Study.
The Miracle of Miracell:
For Practice Building Success
Third Party Pschology:
Utilization in Helping the Hearing Impaired
The author explores the relationship dynamics that affect loved ones of
the hearing impaired as they seek to encourage positive solutions.
Tinnitus
Retraining Therapy: A Comparitive Review
This presentation steps the reader through the fundamentals of one of
the most effective tinnitus treatment programs in the world today, and
compares the underlying physiological model to Chartrand's TA2002 model
Transcranial CROS
Includes the following article: Transcranial or Internal CROS Fittings:
Evaluation and Validation Protocol
Tuning Fork COMBO
Offer
Available to all hearing and health professionals, this special offer
features Chartrand's latest manual, tutorial CD and complete tuning fork
set to enhance your auditory rehabilitative skills!
Utilizing
Neurophysiology in Resolving Hearing Aid Fitting Complaints
PowerPoint Presentation
Volume Control
Use Training
Methodology for training in using a user volume described.
Volume Controls:
Essential to meet physiological, acoustic needs
The recent practice of leaving user volume controls off of hearing aids
has presented new challenges for the hearing impaired.
Why Volume Controls?
Includes the following article: In Vigorous Defense of Volume Control
Yeasts in the ears: Part I
& II
A reader poses a question regarding a chronic yeast problem in the ears
that has not responded to medical treatment.
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