History and Basics of Hearing Aid Amplification
Key Points
- What and when were the important advances in audiology and technology over time
- How have these events impacted where we are today?
- Where are we headed?
- What are the next challenges?
Timeline: 1800's to 1970
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Timeline: 1970's - 1980's
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Timeline: 1990's
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Timeline 2000's
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Timeline 2010-2020
- 2011 "Wireless" programming
- 2012 New and improved BiCROS
- 2012 PSAPs - new and improved
- 2013 Evidence base for using REAR probe microphone measures to verify audibility
- 2015 Wearables
- 2016 Federal interest in benefits of Hearing aids and healthy aging
Catherine Palmer: "No patient should leave a hearing aid fitting without the clinician knowing what SPL is reaching the eardrum and without a clear understanding of the audibility that has been restored across input levels."