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Thanks to all the enthusiastic Eastern College students! We had a great hands on session all about hearing aids yesterday. Check out our presentation for more info EasternCollege2013....

13 February, 2013

Audiology, like many other fields, changes rapidly. Every couple of months there is new hearing aid technology, advanced equipment and exciting research. At HIA we like to stay current and attend continuing education a couple of times per year. This allows all of our clinicians to...

11 February, 2013

  With the Superbowl having just passed us, excitement built for the big game last weekend. As athletes stayed focused to win the coveted Superbowl trophy, and as they worked out their communication strategies for the field, little did they know that they may be getting...

08 February, 2013

Paul Hewson, now known as Bono, was born and raised in Ireland. In his adolescence, he was a member of a group called "Lypton Village"; on one uneventful evening hanging out on the street  across from a local hearing aid company, his friends decided "Bono Vox"...

07 February, 2013

In the previous parts of the series, we discovered how the hearing aid industry moved from acoustic amplifiers to electric amplifiers. However, all of these hearing aids still just simply turned sounds up louder so the hearing impaired individual would get an overall louder signal. In...

06 February, 2013

In Part 2 of this hearing aid history lesson, we watched as hearing aids started to use electrical current to amplify sounds. However, these devices were still large and bulky. In 1948, Bell Laboratories developed the transistor to replace vacuum tubes, which opened many new...

05 February, 2013

In Part 1 of the Evolution of the Hearing Aid, we looked at the first attempts at aiding hearing with acoustic amplifiers such as ear trumpets and conversation cones. The first electric hearing aids hit the market after Alexander Graham Bell's telephone was designed in 1876....

04 February, 2013

I have always enjoyed working with people and I decided a career in health care would be a good fit. Family members with hearing loss gave me an appreciation for the power of communication from an early age. My grandmother had a profound hearing loss. As...

31 January, 2013

As long as people have been communicating verbally, people have been having trouble hearing that communication. The first "generation" of hearing aids surfaced in the 17th century, and all of the aids were designed to be held over the ears. The first "brand name" hearing aid...

30 January, 2013