President’s Message | Why Professional Community Still Matters
Over the years, some of my favorite moments in our profession have come through conversations with colleagues. Whether discussing patient care, education, research, or leadership, those conversations consistently remind me just how much audiology is evolving and how many new opportunities and challenges we are navigating together.
Expanding the Audiological Tinnitus Toolkit: Integrating Bimodal Neuromodulation for Comprehensive Care
Hearing and Balance Specialists of Kansas City was established in 2016 and has grown into a specialty-focused practice operating across three locations in the Kansas City metro, serving both urban and surrounding rural communities.
Streamlining Cochlear Implant Programming: A Protocol for Integrating Data and Physiology
As cochlear implant clinical practice guidelines evolve toward greater efficiency, the path to optimal patient outcomes lies in a balanced clinical protocol that utilizes automated population averages as a foundation for patient-specific objective measures (Holder et al., 2025).
The Little Program That Could
Despite well-established outcomes, CIs remain significantly underutilized in the United States (Neukam et al., 2024). Expanding candidacy criteria have increased the number of individuals who may benefit from cochlear implantation; however, many potential candidates remain unidentified or encounter barriers to referral and access (Neukam et al., 2024; Zwolan & Basura, 2021).
Audio Quality in Captioned Calls
Captioned telephone services are a vital communication tool for many people who are DHH who rely on both auditory and visual information to understand spoken messages. In the United States, Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS) enables users to hear the caller’s voice while simultaneously receiving real-time captions generated by automatic speech recognition (ASR) or human captioners.
Audiology Coding Q&A: Part 2
In the September/October issue of Audiology Today, the Coding and Reimbursement Committee provided an article that addressed questions raised in our “Coding Unscripted” session at AAA 2026 and in recent member submissions to the reimbursement mailbox. In the process of drafting that article, which involved identifying thematic topic areas of interest to our membership, we determined that a two-part series was necessary to deliver the requested information.
Looking Ahead: EHDI Reauthorization in the 120th Congress
As Congress moves toward the end of the 119th Congress, the hearing health community should already be looking ahead to an important legislative priority for 2027: reauthorization of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs. The current EHDI authorization runs through Fiscal Year 2027, making reauthorization an important priority for the 120th Congress.
JFLAC 2026: Developing the Next Generation of Audiology Leaders
For the 2026 James Jerger Future Leaders of Audiology Conference (JFLAC) cohort, answering that question was at the heart of three days of conversation and connection September 17–19 at the American Academy of Audiology headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
Academy Spotlight
The Academy is proud to highlight the members and volunteers who help advance the profession every day. Through our Academy Spotlight series, we recognize individuals making meaningful contributions to audiology through clinical care, research, leadership, education, and service.