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  • Volume Control
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  • Word Discrimination Testing (WD)
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  • ABI
  • ABR
  • AC
  • Acoustic Neuroma
  • Acoustic Reflex
  • Acoustic Room Treatment
  • Acoustics
  • Acquired Deafness
  • Acquired Hearing Loss
  • Acute Otitis Media
  • Acute tinnitus
  • ADA
  • Adventitious Deafness
  • Adventitious Hearing Loss
  • Adverse Side Effect
  • AGC
  • AIED
  • Air Conduction
  • Air Conduction Pathway
  • Air Conduction Threshold
  • Air-Bone Gap
  • ALD
  • Alerting Device
  • ALS
  • Ambient Noise
  • American Sign Language (ASL)
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
  • Amplification
  • Amplified Telephone
  • Amplifier
  • Amplitude
  • AN
  • AN/AD
  • Analog Hearing Aid
  • Anvil
  • Apical Region
  • Aplasia
  • ASL
  • ASP
  • ASR
  • Assertiveness
  • Assistive Listening Device (ALD)
  • Assistive Listening System (ALS)
  • Ataxia
  • Atresia
  • Attenuate
  • Audio Coil
  • Audio Induction Loop
  • Audiogram
  • Audiological Evaluation
  • Audiologist
  • Audiology
  • Audiometer
  • Audiometry
  • Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI)
  • Auditory Brainstem Response Testing (ABR)
  • Auditory Gain
  • Auditory Hallucinations
  • Auditory Imagery
  • Auditory Nerve
  • Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD)
  • Auditory Processing Disorder
  • Auditory Reflex
  • Auditory Rehabilitation
  • Auditory Therapy
  • Auditory Trainer
  • Auditory Training
  • Auditory/Oral Education
  • Aural Habilitation
  • Aural Rehabilitation
  • Auria
  • Auricle
  • Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)
  • Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
  • Automatic Signal Processing (ASP)
  • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
  • Background Noise
  • BAEP
  • BAER
  • BAHA
  • Balance System
  • Basal Region
  • Basilar Membrane
  • Behavioral Hearing Tests
  • Behavioral Observation Audiometry (BOA)
  • Behind-the-Ear Hearing Aid (BTE)
  • Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
  • Bi-CROS
  • Bilateral
  • Bilateral Hearing Loss
  • Binaural
  • Binaural Hearing
  • Binaural Hearing Aids
  • Binaural Summation
  • BOA
  • Body Aid
  • Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)
  • Bone Conduction
  • Bone Conduction Hearing Aid
  • Bone Conduction Testing
  • Bone Conduction Threshold
  • Bony Labyrinth
  • BPPV
  • Brain Fog
  • Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential (BAEP)
  • Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER)
  • BrainStem Evoked Response (BSER)
  • BSER
  • BTE
  • C-Print
  • CA
  • Caloric Test
  • CAN
  • Canal Hearing Aid
  • CAPD
  • CapTel
  • Captioned Telephone (CapTel)
  • CART
  • CBT
  • Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
  • Central Nervous System (CNS)
  • Cerumen
  • Ceruminosis
  • Channel
  • Cholesteatoma
  • Chronic tinnitus
  • CIC
  • CII Bionic Ear
  • Cilia
  • CIS
  • Clarion (C-1)
  • Clinical Hearing Loss
  • Closed Captioning
  • CNS
  • Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technologies (COAT)
  • COAT
  • Cochlea
  • Cochlear Implant
  • Cochlear Nerve
  • Cochlear System
  • Coding Strategy
  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
  • Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART)
  • Communications Assistant (CA)
  • Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS)
  • Complete Audiological Evaluation
  • Completely In the Canal Hearing Aid (CIC)
  • Compression
  • Computer-Assisted Note-taking (CAN)
  • Concha Hearing Aid
  • Conditioned Audiometry
  • Conditioned Orienting Response (COR)
  • Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA)
  • Conductive Hearing Loss
  • Congenital Hearing Loss
  • Continuous Interleaved Sampling (CIS)
  • Contralateral
  • Contralateral Routing of Sound Hearing Aid (CROS)
  • Conventional Audiogram
  • Conventional Hearing Aid
  • Cookie-bite Hearing Loss
  • Coping Strategy
  • COR
  • CPA
  • CPS
  • CROS Hearing Aid
  • Cued Speech
  • DAI
  • dB
  • deaf
  • Deaf
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Decreased Sound Tolerance
  • Desired Sensation Level (DSL)
  • Differential Diagnosis
  • Digital Hearing Aid
  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
  • Digitally-Programmable Analog Hearing Aid
  • Diplacusis
  • Diplacusis Binauralis
  • Diplacusis Dysharmonica
  • Diplacusis Echoica
  • Diplacusis Monauralis
  • Direct Audio Input (DAI)
  • Directional Microphone
  • Disarticulation
  • Discrimination
  • Dispensing Audiologist
  • Disposable Hearing Aid
  • Distortion
  • Dix-Hallpike Test
  • Dizziness
  • Dominant Genetic Condition
  • Drop Attack
  • DSL
  • DSP
  • Dynamic Range
  • Dysacusis
  • Dysyncrony
  • EABR
  • Ear Canal
  • Ear Impression
  • Ear Infection
  • Ear Tubes
  • Ear Wax
  • Earbud
  • Eardrum
  • Eardrum Perforation
  • Early Intervention Services
  • Earmold
  • Echoacusis
  • Educational Audiologist
  • Educational Interpreter
  • Eighth Cranial Nerve
  • Electrical Auditory Brainstem Response Testing (EABR)
  • Electrical Stapedius Reflex Test (ESRT)
  • Electrode Array
  • Electronystagmography (ENG)
  • Endolymph
  • Endolymphatic Hydrops
  • ENG
  • ENT
  • ERA
  • ESRT
  • Etiology
  • Eustachian Tube
  • EVAS
  • Evoked Response Audiometry (ERA)
  • Expressive Language
  • External Auditory Canal
  • External Ear
  • External Ear Canal
  • Eyeglass Hearing Aid
  • FDA
  • Feedback
  • Feeling of Fullness in Ears
  • Fidelity 120
  • Filter
  • Fingerspelling
  • FM System
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Footplate
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Modulation System (FM)
  • Frequency Response
  • Full-shell Hearing Aid
  • Functional Gain
  • Functional Hearing Loss
  • Gain
  • Glomus Jugulare Tumor
  • Habituation
  • HAC
  • Hair Cells
  • Half-shell Hearing Aid
  • Hammer
  • Hard of Hearing
  • Harmony
  • HAT
  • Hawthorne Effect
  • Head Shadow Effect
  • Hearing Aid
  • Hearing Aid Compatible
  • Hearing Aid Dealer
  • Hearing Aid Dispenser
  • Hearing Aid Evaluation
  • Hearing Aid Trial
  • Hearing Assessment
  • Hearing Assistive Technology (HAT)
  • Hearing Dog
  • Hearing Ear Dog
  • Hearing Evaluation
  • Hearing Impaired
  • Hearing In Noise Test (HINT)
  • Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS)
  • Hearing Level (HL)
  • Hearing Loss
  • Hearing Loss Coping Strategies
  • Hearing Screening
  • Hearing Threshold
  • Hereditary Hearing Loss
  • Hertz
  • HINT
  • HiRes 120 (HiRes with Fidelity 120)
  • HiRes 90K
  • HIS
  • HL
  • HOH
  • Homophene
  • Hypacusis
  • Hyperacusis
  • Hypnagogic
  • Hypnopompic
  • Hypoacusis
  • Hz
  • IDEA
  • Idiopathic
  • IEP
  • Impedance Audiometry
  • Impedance Measurements
  • Impedance Testing
  • In-The-Canal Hearing Aid (ITC)
  • In-The-Mouth Hearing Aid (ITM)
  • Incus
  • Individualized Education Program (IEP)
  • Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
  • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
  • Induction Loop
  • Inflection
  • Infrared System
  • Inner Ear
  • Intensity
  • Interaural Pitch Difference (IPD)
  • Internal Feedback
  • Interpreter
  • Intonation
  • Intratypmanic
  • IPD
  • Ipsilateral
  • ITC Hearing aid
  • ITE Hearing aid
  • ITM Hearing aid
  • Labyrinth
  • Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome (LVAS)
  • LDL
  • Left-Corner Audiogram
  • Linear Hearing Aid
  • Lipreading
  • Listening Strategy
  • Localization
  • Loop System
  • Loudness
  • Loudness Discomfort Level (LDL)
  • LVAS
  • Mainstreaming
  • Malleus
  • Map
  • Mapping
  • Masking
  • Masking Noise
  • Mastoid Bone
  • MCL
  • Meniere’s Disease
  • Meningitis
  • MES
  • Middle Ear
  • Mild Hearing Loss
  • Mini-Canal Hearing Aid
  • Minimal Auditory Deficiency (MAD)
  • Minimum Masking Level (MML)
  • Misophonia
  • Mixed Hearing Loss
  • MM
  • MML
  • Moderate Hearing Loss
  • Moderately Severe Hearing Loss
  • Monaural
  • Monaural Amplification
  • Most Comfortable Loudness Level (MCL)
  • Multi-Memory Hearing Aids
  • Musical Ear Syndrome (MES)
  • Myringotomy
  • Natural Environment
  • Natural Language
  • Neckloop
  • Nerve Damage
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  • Neurologist
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  • Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA)
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  • Otolithic Crisis of Tumarkin
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  • Permanent Threshold Shift (PTS)
  • Phoneme
  • Phonophobia
  • Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR)
  • Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
  • Pink Noise
  • Pinna
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  • Placebo
  • Platinum Sound Processor (PSP)
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  • Post-lingual
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  • Posturography
  • Potentiation
  • Pre-lingual
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  • Presbycusis
  • Pressure Equalization Tube (PE)
  • Profound Hearing Loss
  • Programmable Hearing Aid
  • Proprioceptive System
  • PSP
  • PTA
  • Pure Tone
  • Pure Tone Air Conduction Audiometry
  • Pure Tone Audiogram
  • Pure Tone Audiometer
  • Pure Tone Average (PTA)
  • Pure Tone Bone Conduction Audiometry
  • Pure Tone Screening
  • Pure Tone Testing
  • Pure Tone Threshold Audiometry
  • Real Ear Measurement
  • Real-time Captioning
  • Receiver
  • Receptive Language
  • Recessive Genetic Condition
  • Recruitment
  • Relay Service
  • Residual Hearing
  • Residual Inhibition
  • Resonance
  • Reverberation
  • Reverse-slope Hearing Loss
  • Rotation Test
  • Round Window
  • Rubella
  • Saccule
  • SAS
  • SAT
  • SD
  • SDT
  • Selective Amplification
  • Semicircular Canal
  • Sensitivity Control
  • Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SHL, SNHL)
  • Serous Otitis Media
  • Service Coordinator
  • Service Provider
  • Severe Hearing Loss
  • SHL
  • Sign Language
  • Signal-to-Noise Ratio
  • Signed English
  • Silhouette
  • Simultaneous Analog Stimulation (SAS)
  • Ski-slope Hearing Loss
  • Slight Hearing Loss
  • SLP
  • SNHL
  • Somatosounds
  • Sound Bore
  • Sound Field System
  • Speech Awareness Threshold (SAT)
  • Speech Detection Threshold (SDT)
  • Speech frequencies
  • Speech intelligibility
  • Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
  • Speech perception
  • Speech processor
  • Speech reception threshold (SRT)
  • Speech recognition threshold (SRT)
  • Speech Threshold (ST)
  • Speechreading
  • Spondee
  • Spondee Threshold (ST)
  • Squealing
  • SRT
  • SSEP
  • SSHL
  • SSNHL
  • ST
  • Stapedectomy
  • Stapes
  • Steady State Evoked Potentials (SSEP)
  • Stetoclip
  • Stirrup
  • Sub-clinical Hearing Loss
  • Sudden Deafness (SD)
  • Sudden Hearing Loss
  • Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL, SSNHL)
  • Suprathreshold Levels
  • Swimmer’s Ear
  • Syndromic Hearing Loss
  • Synergistic
  • T-coil
  • T-switch
  • TDD
  • Telecoil
  • Telecommunication Device for the Deaf
  • Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)
  • Telemic
  • Teletype (TTY)
  • Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS)
  • Text Telephone
  • Threshold
  • Tinnitus
  • Tinnitus Masker
  • Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
  • Tonotopic Organization
  • Total Communication
  • Transient Spontaneous Tinnitus (TST)
  • Transient Tonal Tinnitus
  • Transition
  • TRS
  • TRT
  • TST
  • TTS
  • TTY
  • Tumarkin, Otolithic Crisis of
  • Tympanic
  • Tympanic Membrane
  • Tympanogram
  • Tympanometer
  • Tympanometry
  • Tympanoplasty
  • Tympanostomy Tube
  • Tympanum
  • UCL
  • Uncomfortable Loudness Level (UCL)
  • Unilateral Hearing Loss
  • Utricle
  • VCO
  • Vent
  • Ventilation Tube
  • Vertigo
  • Vestibular Aqueduct
  • Vestibular Labyrinth
  • Vestibular Nerve Section
  • Vestibular Rehabilitation
  • Vestibular System
  • Vestibulocochlear Nerve
  • Video Relay Service (VRS)
  • Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA)
  • VNS
  • Voice Carry Over (VCO)
  • Volume Control
  • VRA
  • VRS
  • Wavelength
  • Wax
  • WD
  • Whistling
  • White Noise
  • Wide Dynamic Range Compression
  • Word Discrimination Testing (WD)
  • Word Recognition Testing (WR)
  • WR

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Loop Systems

Loop your home or meeting room. Discover how you can hear wonderfully clear sound again when listening to the TV/radio, etc, or when listening to a speaker at a meeting.

Loop systems are one of the best-kept secrets in town. To learn more about Loop Systems and what they can do for you, click here.

Take Control of Your Tinnitus—Here’s How

If your ears ring, buzz, chirp, hiss, click or roar, you know just how annoying tinnitus can be. You do not have to put up with this racket for the rest of your life. This book teaches you many things you can do to help bring your tinnitus under your control so it no longer bothers you.

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Sounds Now Too Loud for You?

Hypersensitive to Sound front coverIf some (or all) normal sounds seem so loud they “blow the top of your head off”, or make you wince or jump, or cause you headaches or ear pain, or affect your balance, or result in fear or annoyance of sounds so you feel you have to avoid these sounds, this book is for you!

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Hearing Phantom Sounds?

When hard of hearing people begin hearing phantom voices or music, they immediately worry they are going crazy. It never crosses their minds that they are sane and are just experiencing Musical Ear syndrome.

To learn more about the strange phantom sounds of Musical Ear syndrome and what you can do about them, click here to read a comprehensive article about Musical Ear Syndrome.

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"The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life [which also includes perfect hearing] through Jesus Christ our Lord." [Romans 6:23]

"But know this, in the last days perilous times will come" [2 Timothy 3:1]. "For there will be famines, pestilences, and [severe] earthquakes in various places" [Matthew 24:7], "distress of nations, the sea and the waves roaring"—tsunamis, hurricanes—Luke 21:25, but this is good news if you have put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, for "when these things begin to happen, lift up your heads [and rejoice] because your redemption draws near" [Luke 21:28].