October 27, 2014

This Halloween, Don’t Scare Them; Enlighten Them!

  Part of raising awareness about any issue is simply bringing it to people’s attention and keeping it front of mind. Raising awareness about hearing loss is very important. There […]
October 23, 2014

Tired of Batteries Falling Out of Your Hearing Aids?

Maybe it’s because I’m a newbie (less than three years) hearing aid wearer with mild-to-medium hearing loss, but this has been a subject of continued annoyance for me. Of course, […]
October 17, 2014

Parker: The Boy Who Taught Me About Shame

There are very few things about which I feel shame. Shame: “a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong and foolish behavior”. Note this: the […]
October 16, 2014

Trying Venture: It’s Smooth

A surprise was waiting for me on my last trip to Phonak headquarters in Stäfa, 10 days ago: Venture. I had an appointment to try some Audéo hearing aids and […]
October 9, 2014

Imagining the Future of Audiology and Fitting

  Writing software is great! You get to tell a computer, a machine, anything that holds some kind of electronic intelligence, what it should do. Isn’t that great and liberating?… […]