hearing aids

How It’s Made | The Development of a Hearing Aid

By Charlotte T. Jespersen, M.A. Hearing aid development is a complicated process that involves much more than simply putting a case around electrical components. The process involves a cross-disciplinary team of experts – including an audiologist, acoustician, electronics engineer, mechanical engineer, industrial designer, algorithm programmer and product manager, amongst others – working together to create […]

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A Hearing Aid I Can Use With My iPhone? That’s Just the Beginning…

Mark Palmer is a 64-year-old businessman who has worn hearing aids for almost 20 years. He likely did some damage listening to loud music and chainsaws, along with spending time on manufacturing floors and around small airplanes. His situation is a bit more complicated, however, as he suffered a brain injury when he was young,

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Hearing Aid Reliability and IP Ratings

Ingress Protection (IP) Ratings are used to define levels of sealing effectiveness of electrical enclosures against intrusion from foreign bodies (dust, dirt, etc) and moisture.  ReSound’s Jennifer Groth and Torben Groth were recently interviewed by AudiologyOnline.com about IP ratings and how audiologists should or should not be using those ratings in the hearing instrument selection

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