The Audiologist - A Phonak podcast

Learn more the fully integrated step by step verification workflow available in Phonak Target called TargetMatch in the latest episode of “The Audiologist”.

The ENHANCE study has been investigating whether remediation of hearing loss in older adults with hearing aids has an impact on cognitive health. Listen to the latest episode of "The Audiologist" with Prof. Julia Sarant, Professor and Lead Chief Investigator at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Lisa Bacic, Manager Audiology Thought Leadership at Phonak, to learn more.

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Learn why it is so important in hearing healthcare that we address the social-emotional well-being of clients. Listen to the latest episode of “The Audiologist” with Dr. Barbra Timmer, Lecturer at the University of Queensland, and Lisa Bacic, Manager Audiology Thought Leadership at Phonak HQ. Learn more https://www.phonak.com/en-int/well-hearing

Learn how to improve the physical well-being of your clients by listening to our latest podcast episode. Jennifer Appleton Huber, Manager Scientific Audiology and Education at Phonak, welcomes Emily Urry, Senior Manager Digital Health Innovation at Sonova, and David Maidment, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Loughborough University UK, to update your knowledge.​

How does AutoSense OS benefit your clients? Get the answer to this question and more by listening to this episode with Davina Omisore, Audiology Manager, and Chase Smith, Sales Audiology Manager. For over 75 years, Phonak has developed innovative technologies that improve speech understanding and sound quality. Get a deeper insight into our evidence-based features to offer your clients the best hearing performance in every listening situation. https://www.phonak.com/en-int/professionals/innovations

The benefits of directional microphones are well-known and proven. Learn on the go how Phonak implements directional microphones to meet the needs of your clients. Listen to our new podcast series with Shin-Shin Hobi, Senior Audiology Manager, and Chase Smith, Sales Audiology Manager, on hearing performance. For over 75 years, Phonak has developed innovative technologies that improve speech understanding and sound quality. Get a deeper insight into our evidence-based features to offer your clients the best hearing performance in every listening situation. https://www.phonak.com/en-int/professionals/innovations

Despite the incredible advances in hearing aid technology over the last several decades, stigma still exists around hearing loss and hearing aids. In this podcast, Davina Omisore, Audiology Manager at Phonak HQ Switzerland, and Dr. Gurjit Singh, Senior Research Audiologist at Phonak Canada, discuss why this stigma still exists and what can be done to help normalize hearing loss and hearing aid adoption.

Scientific literature has discovered that hearing loss is associated with reduced physical activity. People with hearing loss tend to move less and less well than their normal hearing peers. In this podcast, Michael Preuss, Audiology Manager at Phonak, and Emily Urry, Research Scientist in Health and Innovation at Sonova, discuss how physical activity can improve your overall well-being and how the new Phonak Audéo Fit can help with motivating and tracking exercise.

Over 65,000 individuals already using listening practice tools. Learn more about the offering in the HearingSuccess portal by listening to this podcast with Lisa Bacic, Rehabilitation Manager at Phonak and Valeri LeBeau, Senior Rehabilitation Manager at Advanced Bionics.

The World Health Organization recently acknowledged that auditory training helps people to better use hearing in all situations. So how can audiologists better integrate these methods into their own practices? In this podcast, Lisa Bacic, Rehabilitation Manager at Phonak and Dr. Maren Stropahl discuss the impact and benefits of auditory skills trainings and how they can be used as a tool in aural rehab. Visit www.hearingsucccess.com to learn more.

Audéo Paradise Life is the world's first waterproof rechargeable hearing aid, combining the hearing performance of Audéo Paradise with a robust new housing that provides additional protection from water and sweat. Sound too good to be true? In this podcast, Chase Smith, Sales Audiology Manager and Anne Miller, Research Audiologist, talk about how Audéo Life was put through its paces in the real world by a group of athletic study participants.

Poorer overall well-being and increased loneliness are a few challenges clients with Unilateral Hearing Loss can experience. So, how can CROS and BiCROS solutions provide much needed help? Jane Woodward, MSc, Audiology Manager, Phonak HQ, and Elizabeth Stewart, AuD, PhD, Research Audiologist, PARC U.S., discuss in this podcast episode.

For clients with severe to profound hearing loss, it is crucial to regularly measure outcomes even if their audiogram is stable. In this episode of our podcast series on severe and profound hearing loss, audiologist Judith Bird talks about the importance of ongoing care. As a clinical scientist at Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK and contributing author to the recently published guidelines for best practice in the audiological management of people with severe and profound hearing loss, Judith introduces the so-called PROMs, aided speech tests, and further aspects of ongoing care.

In this episode of our podcast series based on the new guidelines for best practice in the audiological management of severe and profound hearing loss, Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager at Phonak HQ, talks to Neuropsychologist Dr. Maren Stropahl about tinnitus and how to treat it. A researcher at Sonova HQ and an expert in the field of Audiological Health Service Delivery, Maren knows all about effective tinnitus treatment approaches, depression and anxiety as potential contributing factors, and the correlation between tinnitus and the degree of hearing loss.

In this episode, Dr. Lorraine Gailey, tackles the importance of including communication partners in audiological care. As previous CEO for Hearing Link, a rehabilitation service for adults with severe and profound hearing loss, Dr. Gailey knows that there are not many people who really understand what a person with severe and profound hearing loss must bear. This is why it is particularly important for hearing care professionals to provide the support needed to reduce the social isolation of these clients.

Cochlear implants can be life changing for clients with severe and profound hearing loss. But what if the client is hesitant to get a cochlear implant? And which clients are candidates for a cochlear implant? Audiologist Judith Bird, Head of Audiology and Emmeline Centre for Hearing Implants at Cambridge University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust UK, provides answers to this and further questions around cochlear implants in this episode of our podcast series. In her conversation with Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager for severe to profound hearing loss at Phonak HQ, Judith encourages audiologists to start discussing cochlear implants with their clients before their hearing aids fail.

Remote microphone systems should be offered to all clients with severe to profound hearing loss. Professor Linda Thibodeau and has shown through her research key benefits of remote microphones in challenging communication situations. Listen to Professor Thibodeau, from the University of Texas at Dallas, Callier Center for Communication Disorders, sharing her expertise with Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager at Phonak HQ in Switzerland.

People with severe and profound hearing loss have different needs in terms of their application than those with mild to moderate loss. In this episode of our podcast series, Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager for severe to profound hearing loss at Phonak HQ, talks to Pamela Souza, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Knowles Hearing Center at the Northwestern University in Illinois, US, about the benefits of wide dynamic range compression, the importance of the noise reduction algorithm, and the contribution of adaptive digital microphones to speech understanding in noise for this group.

People with severe to profound hearing loss face different challenges and issues. How can hearing aids help to balance these out? Pamela Souza, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Knowles Hearing Center at the Northwestern University in Illinois, US, provides answers to this and many further questions in this episode of our podcast series. As Pamela not just conducts research and lectures on severe and profound hearing loss, but is also a contributing author to the recently published guidelines for best practice in audiological management of severe and profound hearing loss, she has in-depth knowledge on the possibilities and limits of hearing aids and what these mean for fitting and counselling of her clients.

What is the role of audiological assessment in the management of clients with severe and profound hearing loss? For Laura Turton, a clinical audiologist and editor of the recently published guidelines for best practice in audiological management of severe and profound hearing loss, the audiological assessment is a key element of the first appointment and beyond. In this episode of our podcast series hosted by Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager for severe to profound hearing loss at Phonak HQ in Switzerland, Laura underlines the importance of treatment plans, elaborates on what such a plan could look like and talks about a patient who could impressively improve her outcome based on a revised treatment plan.

In this episode of our podcast series based on the new guidelines for best practice in the audiological management of severe and profound hearing loss, we are looking into the nature of severe to profound hearing loss with guest speaker Laura Turton, a clinical audiologist and editor of the guidelines. She talks about the causes of this degree of hearing loss as well as what severe and profound hearing loss means for those affected. Laura also discusses the importance of a person-centered approach of audiological management for this target group and elaborates on her definition of a deaf identity in her conversation with Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager for severe to profound hearing loss at Phonak HQ in Switzerland.

In the first episode of our podcast series on severe to profound hearing loss, Bernadette Fulton, audiology manager for severe to profound hearing loss at Phonak HQ in Switzerland, talks to Laura Turton, a clinical audiologist from the UK, who was the editor of the recently published guidelines for best practice in the audiological management of severe and profound hearing loss. In discussion with Bernadette, Laura emphasizes the importance of the new guidelines, how they can be implemented in clinical practice and how they could contribute to better audiological care of people affected by severe and profound hearing loss.

In this episode of our podcast series on Family-Centered Care (FCC), Kris English, Professor Emeritus at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA, tackles difficult conversations and the emotional aspects of Family-Centered Care in audiological practice. How can difficult conversations be turned into therapeutic conversations? In discussion with Dr. Christine Jones, VP Audiology at Phonak US, Kris shares her personal FCC experience with her own family and gives practical tips on how to start involving family members and dealing with challenging communication situations.

What's the key benefit of Family-Centered Care (FCC) in audiological practice? For Joe Montano, Professor of Audiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA, it is clearly the ability to really understand communication issues within a family. He emphasizes that hearing loss not only affects the person with hearing loss but also every significant others. Listen to Joe share his clinical insights and views on FCC with Dr. Christine Jones, VP Audiology at Phonak US.

In the first episode of our podcast on audiology, Dr. Christine Jones, VP Audiology at Phonak US, talks to Louise Hickson, Professor of Audiology at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and chair of the Phonak Family-Centered Care expert circle. Having researched the role of the family in hearing healthcare for many years, Louise knows: the involvement and support of families is critical for the successful management of hearing loss.