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    The first hearing aid was created in the 17th century. The movement toward modern hearing aids began with the creation of the telephone, and the first...
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    A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss. Hearing aids are classified as medical devices...
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    Ear trumpet (redirect from Hearing trumpet)
    used as hearing aids, resulting in a strengthening of the sound energy impact to the eardrum and thus improved hearing for a deaf or hard-of-hearing individual...
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  • Starkey Hearing Technologies is an American privately owned company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota that makes hearing aids, and is one of the largest...
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    hearing aids, sign language, cochlear implants and subtitles are useful. Lip reading is another useful skill some develop. Access to hearing aids, however...
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    patient declines surgery, hearing aids which amplify sounds are a possible treatment option. Bone conduction hearing aids are useful as these deliver...
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  • WS Audiology (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    (formerly Sivantos Group and Widex) is a privately-owned manufacturer of hearing aids with headquarters in Denmark and Singapore with roots going back to...
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  • Demant (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    Demant A/S is a Danish multinational company involved with hearing care, hearing aids, audiometric equipment and personal communication devices. The business...
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  • Audioprosthology (category Hearing aids)
    testing for hearing aids and hearing loss. All are required from each individual state to pass certain requirements and regulations, most of which the same...
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    models of Sonotone hearing aids include the Sonotone 1010 in 1952 with a transistor and two vacuum tubes. By 1960, in addition to hearing aids, Sonotone...
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    Oticon (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    Hans Demant, whose wife was hearing impaired. The company claims to be the world's second-largest manufacturer of hearing aids, and uses a management style...
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    (AFILs) or hearing loops, are an assistive listening technology for individuals with reduced ranges of hearing. A hearing loop consists of one or more...
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    unilateral hearing loss, single-sided deafness and people with mixed hearing losses who cannot otherwise wear 'in the ear' or 'behind the ear' hearing aids. They...
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    not cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Some of its proponents reject the existence of HIV, while others accept that HIV exists but argue...
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    treatment or cure for SNHL; management of hearing loss is usually by hearing strategies and hearing aids. In cases of profound or total deafness, a cochlear...
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    GN Store Nord (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    GN Store Nord A/S is a Danish manufacturer of hearing aids (GN ReSound/GN Hearing), speakerphones, videobars and headsets (Jabra (GN Audio) and SteelSeries)...
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  • new kind of bone conduction hearing aid called the "Osophone", which he later elaborated on with his "Phonosone". Bone conduction hearing aids have also...
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  • timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency...
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    alphabetical list of people who are known to have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the pathogen that causes AIDS, including those...
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    AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. The group works to improve the...
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  • Beltone (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    February 27, 2014. "Hearing aid apps for hearing loss| Beltone HearPlus App". "Beltone Legend Hearing Aids". "Hearing aid apps for hearing loss| Beltone HearPlus...
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    Treacher Collins syndrome (category Hearing loss with craniofacial syndromes)
    is not curable. Symptoms may be managed with reconstructive surgery, hearing aids, speech therapy, and other assistive devices. Life expectancy is generally...
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  • foundation for the creation of hearing aids with his experiments. He found that electrical stimulation could restore hearing by inserting an electrical...
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    Miracle-Ear (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    assistant to the president of Telex Communications, another manufacturer of hearing aids. Prior to manufacturing hearing aids, Dahlberg's company produced...
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    Sonova (redirect from Connect Hearing)
    and markets hearing aids, cochlear implants, and wireless communication devices compatible with their hearing devices. The group consists of more than 30...
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  • Bernafon (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    Bernafon is a globally operating company that defines and markets hearing aids and hearing aid accessories, including fitting software and consumer apps....
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  • impairment increased 7 percent for every 10 dB of hearing loss at baseline. No effect of hearing aids was seen in the Lin Baltimore study. Changes in...
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    instead of using HPD. OSHA specifies that hearing aids are not "hearing protectors" and do not attenuate enough sound to be used instead of HPD. Wearing...
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  • Amplifon (category Hearing aid manufacturers)
    Italy, becoming the market leader in the supply, sales, and fitting of hearing aids. In 1971, the Amplifon Centre for Research and Studies (CRS) was founded:...
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    Audiology (category Hearing)
    that a hearing loss or vestibular abnormality is present, they will provide recommendations for interventions or rehabilitation (e.g. hearing aids, cochlear...
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