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		<title>FCC Updates Standards on Mobile Phones and Hearing Aid Compatibility</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/869</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/869#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Telephone Compatibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC telephone hearing aid compatibility regulations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FCC Updates Standards on Mobile Phones and Hearing Aid Compatibility: On April 9, 2012, the FCC approved a new technical standard for testing phones for hearing aid compatibility (HAC). After this new standard is adopted and a 2-year transition period is completed, the Commission's rules requiring phones to be hearing aid-compatible will apply to handset operations over additional air interfaces and frequency bands.]]></description>
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		<title>Setting Hearing Aid Maximum Power Output Using Stapedial (Acoustic) Reflex Thresholds</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/800</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/800#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adjusting C/M levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adjusting SSPL-90/MPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing instrument fitting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madsen ZS76 Tympanometer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stapedial (middle ear muscle) reflex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tympanic membrane compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tympanometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CI C/M level adjustments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Aid MPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Aid SSPL-90]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stapedial Reflex Measurement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Setting Hearing Aid Maximum Power Output Using Stapedial (Acoustic) Reflex Thresholds: How using the stapedial (acoustic; middle ear muscle) reflex in the tympanometer (impedance bridge) can make for improved hearing aid and cochlear implant fittings; and also act as the screening tool for Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD)]]></description>
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		<title>National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disorders (NIDCD) 2012-2016 Strategic Plan</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/744</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/744#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012-2016 Roadmap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIDCD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIDCD 2012-2016 Roadmap]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institute on Deafness and other Communications Disorders (NIDCD) 2012-2016 Strategic Plan is a four year roadmap for this agency. This article presents Science Capsules for Cochlear Implants &#038; Hearing Aids, and also the Executive Summary, as augmented by the Editor of The Hearing Blog]]></description>
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		<title>My new $25 Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-synchrony Sniffer (Madsen ZS76 Tympanometer)</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/723</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/723#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audiologic Test Gear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madsen ZS76 Tympanometer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stapedial (middle ear muscle) reflex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tympanic membrane compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tympanometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Overstreet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Lybarger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stapedial (Middle Ear Muscle) Reflex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a two-part story on how The Hearing Blog editor Dan Schwartz scored a working clinical tympanometer for $25… And why it's such a valuable tool for both detecting  Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder, and also for adjusting &#038; troubleshooting hearing aids (and even cochlear implants).]]></description>
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		<title>ANSD 2012 Conference: Variation in Detection and Discrimination Abilities in AN/AD: Implications for Management</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/711</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/711#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Variation in Detection and Discrimination Abilities: Implications for Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANSD Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Hood PhD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the ANSD 2012 Conference in St Pete on Friday, March 16th, Professor Linda Hood PhD presented on the Variation in Detection and Discrimination Abilities in AN/AD, and the Implications for Management. You can download her presentation on this page]]></description>
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		<title>ANSD 2012 Conference: Hyperbilirubinemia and Bilirubin Induced Neorological Disease (BIND)</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/703</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/703#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyperbilirubinemia and Bilirubin Induced Neurological Disease (BIND)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Shapiro MD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the Auditory Neuropathy Conference 2012 in St Pete on Thursday morning, we had a very interesting presentation by Steven Shapiro, MD on Hyperbilirubinemia and Bilirubin Induced Neurological Disease (BIND). Dr Shapiro is with the Division of Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics, at Children’s [sic] Mercy Hospital, which is part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. You can download the handout on this page.]]></description>
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		<title>Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder Conference 2012</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/672</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/672#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Auditory Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FM Assistive Devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Berlin PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cortical Evoked Potentials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirsty Gardner-Berry PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Hood PhD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We'll be live blogging from the upcoming Conference on the Diagnosis and Management of Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorders (ANSD), hosted by  Charles Berlin &#038;Linda Hood March 15th through 17th in St Pete, Florida. Topics covered include:
 § Results and Outcomes from more than 500 ANSD Patients
 § Hearing Aids vs. Cochlear Implants 
 § Cortical Evoked Potentials 
 § Newest Developments in Trans-Tympanic ECochG 
 § Speech Language Management]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous new teen trend on hearing loss vs technology</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/566</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/566#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teenage hearing loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There's a dangerous new trend among teens on noise-induced hearing loss: Besides the usual air of invincibility, teens are now adopting a "so what, technology will fix it" attitude, as the number of teens having a hearing loss has skyrocketed to 1 in 5 by 2006, according to a new study published in JAMA]]></description>
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		<title>Uni study in DFW of CROS &amp; BiCROS hearing aids for single-sided deafness</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/627</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/627#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Single-Sided Deafness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University clinical studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BiCROS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinical trials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CROS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor Erin Schafer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of North Texas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Univ of North Texas Audiology Professor Dr Erin Schafer is looking for paid volunteers in the DFW area with limited or no hearing in one ear BUT who have normal or some hearing in the other, as she is running clinical trials on a new CROS &#038; BiCROS hearing aid system. Contact her at at 940-369-7433 or at Erin.Schafer@UNT.edu for more details &#038;/or to sign up]]></description>
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		<title>Is your infant, child or adolescent hearing impaired? Take the quiz!</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/598</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/598#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pediatric hearing loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children's Home Inventory for Listening Difficulties (CHILD)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Early Listening Function (ELF)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Listening Bubble]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you suspect a child from age 4 months to 12 years has a hearing or listening difficulty,  the free Early Listening Function (ELF  for 4 months to 3 years), and the Children's Home Inventory for Listening Difficulties (CHILD; 3-12 years) Discovery Tools  for parents and caregivers are short questionnaires to fill out that can provide answers and to stimulate the secret ingredient of successful pediatric intervention: Parental involvement.]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Bionics website hacked for over 24 hours</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/571</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/571#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Bionics corporate security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Bionics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday 2/16/2012 we discovered the Advanced Bionics Singapore website was hacked. Although at first we got a chuckle out of it, on further review, after the breach lasted over 24 hours, we are calling on the FDA to investigate this implanted medical device manufacturer.]]></description>
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		<title>Rarefaction and condensation… or should it be compression?</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/538</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/538#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Acoustical wave propagation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acoustics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Audio Engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thermodynamics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transmission Line Loudspeakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adiabatic vs Isothermal wave propagation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Patronis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Allen Robinson Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[W Marshall Leach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Staab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Hearing Blog makes the case using proper thermodynamic terminology when dealing with acoustic wave propagation to use the term "compression" instead of "condensation," as the opposite of rarefaction]]></description>
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		<title>Frustration with so-called &#8220;minimal&#8221; hearing loss (updated)</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/521</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/521#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLAA Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimal hearing loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single-Sided Deafness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Songbird FlexFit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starkey AMP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinnitus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SongBird FlexFit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SongBird FlexFit review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Starkey AMP review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Better Hearing Institute  director Dr Sergei Kochkin had an interesting reply to Jason Galsters’ What motivates hearing aid use:
“So many of the people with hearing loss have mild hearing loss and are simply not candidates for amplification.“
We don’t buy that statement, for two reasons, which are spelled out in this article that discusses the shortcomings of the audiogram; and provides two case histories~]]></description>
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		<title>FM: A Success Story In The Library</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/51</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/51#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FM Assistive Devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLAA Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oticon Focus on People Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellman Audio Domino Classic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellman Audio Domino Pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss Ass'n of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speak Up Librarian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah "Speak Up Librarian" Wegleys' first-person account of her success story using a Bellman Audio Domino Pro FM system in her workplace to help her perform her daily job duties. ]]></description>
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		<title>New Research Shows Listening And Hearing Is Different For Children With Cochlear Implants</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/446</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/446#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impact on Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acoustical Society of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cochlear implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cochlear implant speech recognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaf child cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derek M. Houston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing impaired cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indiana University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infant cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riley Hospital for Children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New Research presented at the recent Acoustical Society of America research meeting by Dr Derek M Houston at Riley Hospital for Children (Indianapolis) shows how both listening and hearing is different for children who have cochlear implants; and significantly, how this affects word recognition for years. This research has broad implications for auditory-verbal teachers, speech pathologists, and administrators~]]></description>
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		<title>Dying to Hear Again&#8230; And She (Almost) Did [Reposted from The Telegraph (UK) Hearing Blog]</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/41</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/41#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristin Fleig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Re-posts from The Telegraph (UK) Hearing Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Gorden McMurry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MYH9 Chromosome Mutation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you don't think hearing is important, ask Kristin Fleig: She gambled her life to hear again… And won.
Originally posted in The Telegraph (London, UK) Hearing Blog, October 15, 2009]]></description>
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		<title>Less-than-honest NBC Today segment on hearing loss</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/389</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/389#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelley Borgia AuD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Audiologist Dr Shelley Borgia and her patient Jim McDade were less-than truthful about the causes of McDades' hearing loss during their appearance on the August 10 edition of NBC Today]]></description>
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		<title>Please Don&#8217;t Use Sarcasm With My Students: Guest article by (e</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/291</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/291#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because hearing impaired children cannot hear or fully decode the nuances of speech, they can be easily confused when an adult speaks with a sarcastic tone, as the inverted meaning will often be lost on them. Author and teacher "e)" explains why in this Hearing Blog Guest Article~]]></description>
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		<title>Smashing Success: HLAA Convention 2011</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/263</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/263#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLAA Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie-louise Bailey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telephone Compatibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinnitus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amber Leaver PhD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Resource Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NVRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telephone compatibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinnitus research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2011 edition of the Hearing Loss Association of America Convention was a smashing success, with over 1200 people preregistering &#038; well over 1500 attending, making it the biggest convention in theior 32 year history]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wired to Fail: The Second International Loop Conference</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/245</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/245#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HLAA Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Induction Hearing Loops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electromagnetic Interference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Aid Telecoils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing Induction Loops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Room magnetic induction loops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Second International Loop Conference]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Wired to Fail: The Second International Loop Conference" chronicles the disastrous conference (convention) cosponsored by Hearing Loss Association of America and the American Academy of Audiology, which took place June 20-21, 2011 in Washington DC… With snake oil salesmen abounding all over the Crystal City Hyatt~]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cochlear Implant Channel Crossover: First Person Report</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/205</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/205#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charge distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pianist and instructor Daniela Andrews unintentionally -- Yet so eloquently -- describes cochlear implant channel crossover, where the charge from the electrode buttons stimulate the wrong nerve endings in the spiral ganglion.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Advanced Bionics: Fingers tapping…</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/201</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/201#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AB 2010 Recall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[have repeatedly reached out to AB media relations, corporate, and other individuals with requests for more information contained in their TÜV and FDA applications, specifically as to the steps they have taken in Engineering, QA/QC, and Reliability, to assure audiologists, surgeons, and most importantly patients that the failures that occurred leading up to the November 23rd "voluntary" recall will not happen in the future.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>TIA Urges FCC to Retain Existing Hearing Aid Compatibility Requirements</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/185</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/185#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FM Assistive Devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telephone Compatibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANSI C63.19-2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Aid Compatibility]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehearingblog.com/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Telecommunications Industry Association Urges FCC to Retain Existing ANSI C63.19-2007 Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) Requirements]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Guest column: Lost in Music Trivia</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/178</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/178#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurants & bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noisy Restaurant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Mosher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest author Sarah Mosher of the Kansas City chapter of the Hearing Loss Ass'n of America writes a first-person account of she and her hearing boyfriend going to a noisy bar for a music trivia game.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Auditory Therapy: The Missing Ingredient</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/132</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/132#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auditory Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehearingblog.com/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Auditory Therapy: The Missing Ingredient. AR resources from MedEl, Cochlear, Advanced Bionics; Neurotone LACE; free pediatric resources from the John Tracy Clinic; a warning in a movie when AR is not done; and numerous other free online sources. Also, an extensive comment generously provided by Jane R Madell, PhD~]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>BREAKING: Advanced Bionics Layoffs</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/138</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/138#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AB 2010 Recall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB Layoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AB January 2011 Layoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Raulie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Luallen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Ives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sonova]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehearingblog.com/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS: Advanced Bionics lays off 150 employees in the wake of the FDA Recall, including longtime field support staff.  Details to be posted as they become available.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Failing Ugly II: More on the Advanced Bionics Recall</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/65</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/65#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant Circuit Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant — Tags: Advanced Bionics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Device Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investigation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehearingblog.com/?p=65</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Failing Ugly II: More on the Advanced Bionics Recall, including new documents from AB on their failure analysis confirming our 10 December 2010 contentions on DC bias~]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Failing Ugly: Advanced Bionics cochlear implant circuit goes haywire</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/54</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/54#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Bionics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochlear Implant Circuit Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Device Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reliability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Hearing Blog is opening an investigation into the two confirmed, and nine (or more) possible catastrophic failures of the Advanced Bionics HiRes 90K cochlear implant (CI) electronics module in the last several weeks, resulting in extreme overstimulation, causing extreme discomfort to the point of pain and headaches, with the possibility of permanent damage to the cochlea and auditory nerve.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Series on FM: Soliciting User Experiences&amp;c.</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/25</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FM Assistive Devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assistive Devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellman Audio Domino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comfort Audio Contego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companion Mic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etymotic Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FM interference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phonak DynaMic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phonak Inspiro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehearingblog.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hearing Blog is soliciting user experience with FM assistive listening systems used with hearing aids, cochlear implants, or standalone, for an upcoming article.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hearing Loss Ass&#8217;n of America Convention 2010 summary (updated)</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/16</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/16#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HLAA Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brenda Battat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Catherine Palmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GN Resound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss Ass'n of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurel Christensen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Jones CCC-SLP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Macklin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Trautwein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phonak Dynamic Soundfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wide area infrared ALD system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williams Sound]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thehearingblog.com/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearing Loss Ass'n of America convention Cheers and Jeers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hearing Loss Association of America Convention</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/9</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[HLAA Convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASHA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christie Nudelman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classroom acoustics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cochlear implants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donna Sorkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing aids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hearing loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing Loss Association of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HLAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Niparko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Jones MS CCC-SLP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Kricos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Trychin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What Christie Nudelman found when she came to her first HLAA Convention in 2009 in Nashville]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Welcome to The Hearing Blog!</title>
		<link>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/1</link>
		<comments>http://thehearingblog.com/archives/1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schwartz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to The Hearing Blog! I'm Dan Schwartz, your host; and we will be discussing issues related to Hearing and Deafness, with the occasional detour into related topics such as acoustics, noise control, and high fidelity audio. In short, if it deals with sound, then it's fair game!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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