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Long-term outcomes of children and young people with cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Introduction Profound childhood hearing loss has a huge impact on early communication skills, the acquisition of spoken language, and hence on educational attainments and employment prospects. Over the centuries, educators of the deaf attempted to overcome the challenge by using...

What’s new in auditory processing?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Neurotology
Auditory processing disorder (APD) has had a controversial history, stemming mainly from lack of scientific rigor and accepted clinical definition. That situation is now changing. Driven by the huge number of people with unaddressed listening difficulties, basic discoveries in neuroscience,...

Facing up to the challenge of behavioural observation in infant hearing assessment

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The ability to assess detection and discrimination of speech by infants has proved elusive. Dr Iain Jackson and colleagues discuss how new technologies and fresh approaches might offer valuable insight into young infants’ behavioural responses to sound. The limits of...

Mind the gap – developing a sustainable pipeline for hearing therapeutics

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
In this article, the authors describe three key challenges faced in developing hearing therapeutics. Collaboration between companies, sectors and disciplines will be key to finding solutions. The unmet need for therapies for hearing loss grows apace, with prevalence rising across...

Cochlear implantation in Tanzania: the journey and the outcomes

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
It is estimated that over 400 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, 39.9 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. This article by Dr Aveline Kahinga and Mr Ali Jaffer demonstrates the effort that has been made...

Plasticity with cochlear implants: individual factors in the outcomes

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
Andrej Kral gives us an overview of neuronal plasticity in congenital hearing loss, and discusses why it is core to our clinical interventions in hearing loss and rehabilitation. The brain is born immature and undergoes extensive shaping during early development....

Audiology In This Issue - Trainee Takeover

3 July 2023
Guest Section Editors Lizanne Steenkamp,Lecturer in Audiology, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. lsteenkamp@qmu.ac.uk Rosalyn Parker, CS MSc FBSA,Evaluation Healthcare Scientist, Northern Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, UK. Rosalyn.parker2@nhs.net The decision to become an audiology professional (i.e....

How to identify and support adults with auditory processing disorder: a focus on low-gain devices and auditory training

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Some adults struggle with hearing in noise despite normal audiograms. Tools like the HHIA, low-gain devices and auditory training can help identify and support these cases. In this article, Angela Alexander and Fatima Abbas use a case study to discuss...

SNAP by endoscope-i (safe endoscopy starts with a SNAP)

12 May 2020
endoscope-i have developed a simple yet effective engineered solution to ensure safe nasoendoscopy assisted procedures. The 'SNAP' is a one-way valve that can be retrofitted, in seconds, to any surgical mask. endoscope-i CEO, Chris Coulson, explains: “We are all aware...

ENT UK Foundation summer drinks

29 July 2022
Three of the recipients of ENT UK Foundation awards, L–R: Wendy Smith, John Hardman and Manish George, along with Victoria Ward and Nirmal Kumar. The ENT UK Foundation is the philanthropic and fundraising arm of ENT UK that seeks to...

Join us at CI2023

16 January 2023
Registration is now open for CI2023: Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults, 7-10 June, in Dallas, Texas, USA, with early bird rates until 7 April 2023. The conference will explore current and emerging topics for CI patients across the lifespan....

Gene therapy restores baby’s hearing

31 May 2024
The guest editor of a forthcoming supplement for ENT & Audiology News has helped enable a baby girl born deaf to hear unaided for the first time.