hearing healthcare

Six Easy Tips for Conducting an Effective Hearing Aid Evaluation

Clinical / By Kari Londo and Heather Carter

The most challenging aspect of addressing hearing loss is counseling the patient through the acceptance process of amplification. Even in countries where price is not a barrier, acceptance rates are still poor. Denial, cosmetics, stigma, and financial concerns remain the biggest barriers keeping more individuals from seeking treatment for their hearing loss sooner, before it …

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CQ Partners Announces New Partnership with ReSound

Business Development, Clinical / By CQ Partners

CHADDS FORD, PA — CQ partners with industry-leading manufacturers to provide their members with access to the latest and most advanced hearing technology and devices. Today, CQ Partners expands its portfolio by welcoming a new partner, ReSound, whose hearing aids set worldwide standards for quality and intuitive technology helping people Hear More, Do More, Be …

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Four Considerations to Better Serve the Culturally Deaf and Hard-Of-Hearing

Clinical, Communication, Patient Experience / By Dr. Heather Carter

Approximately 48 million Americans (20 percent) report some degree of hearing loss. Within this population exists a subset of individuals that identify as Culturally Deaf (notated by a capital “D”) or Hard-Of-Hearing (HOH). This group doesn’t focus on the medical diagnosis of a certain degree of hearing loss but rather their cultural identity. They often …

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Getting it Right: Hiring for Culture and Employee Engagement in a Post COVID World

Human Resources, Leadership, Recruiting / By Ernie Paolini

While today’s unemployment rate, due to the ongoing pandemic, is significantly higher than it was three months ago, it is sure to fall as the economy comes back and small businesses work to restore payroll and headcount in order to conform to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness parameters. Rest assured there will, once again, …

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How You React to the Current Circumstances Could Define the Future of Your Business

Business Development, Leadership, Management / By Kari Londo

What do you get when you mix a global pandemic + unprecedented unemployment + peaceful protests for social justice mixed with destructive riots? The answer: a world in crisis mode. How does that make you feel? Defeated? Like there’s nothing that you can personally do to change the course of events? Of course, we all …

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Telehearing Care: Party Like it’s 2020

Business Development, Leadership, Management, Strategy / By Suzanne Younker

In the March/April 2020 issue of Audiology Today, the magazine published by the American Academy of Audiology, an article titled, “Party Like it’s 1999,” featured a comparison of 1999 predictions on the future of the audiology profession from top leaders in audiology with today’s 2020 professional status. Revealing their hindsight perspective on those predictions, the …

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The Daily Huddle: Why It’s Important & How to Do It Right

Management / By Julie Gesuale

Imagine for a moment that you’re watching your favorite football team in a playoff game. It’s fourth down and there are 20 seconds on the clock. Your team has the ball at the 20-yard line. The entire season is on the line and they need a touchdown to win. After taking their last time out, …

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