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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE | I Hope You Hear “Of Course!”

I hope 2020 is full of people responding to you with “of course.” The world needs more people saying “…of course.” Whether it is “of course you are welcome here” or “of course I’ll help.” Even “yes” isn’t as good as “of course.” “Yes” means it could have been “no”—“of course” means there was never any question.

Topic(s): Hearing, AAA Conference, HearTECH Expo, Audiologist, Hands-On Pavilions, Cochlear Implants (CI), Professional

Author(s):

Catherine Palmer

Publication Issue: Audiology Today January/February 2020

All About HearTECH Expo

The American Academy of Audiology is excited to welcome attendees to the HearTECH Expo at AAA 2020 in New Orleans, LA. With 200+ exhibiting companies, the HearTECH Expo is a new exhibit hall experience, offering the best of industry-related education and cutting-edge technology all in one place.

Leverage Charity Partnerships for Visibility

Not everyone has a newsworthy story, and even some events don’t have enough depth to interest media. Think through community charity partnerships and outreach that will generate visibility, give back to your community and interest media.

Announcing Future Hub Presenter Meg Soper

Explore the topic of mindfulness and how important it is to take time for ourselves each day so that we find balance and thus can find the energy and inspiration to perform to the best of our abilities.

Innovative Strategies for Hiring: Become an Employer of Choice

Identifying and procuring top talent to support your practice may seem secondary to patient care or other day-to-day operational needs, but employee recruitment is a key element to effectively serving patients, constructing a successful practice, and ultimately, leaving a remarkable professional legacy.

Audiology Today Sept/Oct 2019…What’s Inside This Issue?

Take a look at the table of contents and delve into these online articles, which you can now easily search by topic, title, or author.

The Birth of Our Professional Home

As our Academy reached its 30th birthday in 2018 and our 30th annual conference just this past March (2019), it may be instructive to the younger members to recount the events leading to the founding of our professional home. It all began at the 1987 convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in New Orleans. Before this event, the professional home of all audiologists in the United States was ASHA.

Topic(s): Professional

Author(s):

James Jerger

Brad Stach

Publication Issue: Audiology Today September/October 2019

Our Responsibility to Move Audiology Forward

A culture of quality is needed if we are to bring audiology into the spotlight and highlight our expertise in hearing and balance. Ritz-Carlton co-founder and former president Horst Schulze states that we can create transactions every day, but until we place the person next to us as the most important person in the world in that moment, we will never create an experience.

Topic(s): Professional, Patient care, Public Awareness, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, Practice Management, Hearing Assistive Technologies (HAT), Balance/Vestibular, Hearing Aids, Hearing Health Care

Author(s):

Judy Huch

Publication Issue: Audiology Today September/October 2019

KNOW HOW | Changing Times Will Revitalize Audiology Services

Audiology services and provisions are changing following the passage of the over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid legislation. In the end, what that will actually mean is still unclear. Likely, we will see a device that can manage mild hearing loss for patients and give them some options for their hearing health care. Those of us who have practiced for many years are still trying to decide how that will fit into our current practice model and whether to incorporate an OTC product in the clinic.

Topic(s): Patient care, over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aid devices, Audiometric Test, Tinnitus, Cochlear Implants (CI), Hearing, Balance/Vestibular, speech-in-noise, Bluetooth, Professional

Author(s):

Dawn Hulthen Koncsol

Publication Issue: Audiology Today September/October 2019

AAA 2020 + HearTECH Expo Call for Abstracts Now Open

The Academy is looking for innovative, fresh, cutting-edge ideas, research, case studies, and best practices that will motivate participants beyond the conference.