Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair Honored for Pioneering Cochlear Implant Work

Recognition of the Hochmairs' foundational cochlear implant work highlights the long translational arc from basic engineering research to life-changing clinical devices, reinforcing the field's scientific credibility.

Communicate clearly

Clear communication between healthcare professionals and deaf or hard-of-hearing patients is a persistent equity gap; accessible guidance from a trusted advocacy body helps reinforce standard best practices across all clinical settings.

Provide communication support

Clinics should establish a clear pre-appointment workflow for booking and briefing BSL interpreters or notetakers for patients who need them, including a tested pathway for remote interpreting as a backup.

Offer alternative contact methods

Clinics should audit their appointment and communication systems to ensure non-telephone options (email, SMS, online booking) are available and clearly signposted for patients with hearing loss.

The Emotional Side Of Hearing Care Through Real Patient Journeys

A hearing test can measure thresholds, but it can’t measure what hearing loss does to a marriage, a friendship, or your sense of belonging in a room full of people. We sit down with Dr....

Ask about communication needs

Clinics should implement a routine process for asking, recording, and retrieving individual communication preferences for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients before every appointment.

Communicating with patients who are deaf or have hearing loss

Healthcare professionals—including audiologists—should review and align their patient communication protocols with this RNID guidance, particularly around informed consent and appointment accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.

Auri Brings Auracast Assistive Listening to Houses of Worship

Auracast represents a next-generation assistive listening standard that could gradually replace legacy hearing loop and FM systems in public venues, with implications for patient counselling on real-world hearing accessibility.

How can we better support working adults with hearing loss?

A new real-world study evaluated the impact of Roger On in everyday workplace environments. ​ The strongest improvements were seen in perceived capability and workplace participation....

Starkey’s Kenny Landherr honoured as 2026 CFO of the Year

Executive recognition at a major hearing aid manufacturer offers a minor signal of organisational stability, but has no direct bearing on audiology practice or patient outcomes.

Who ACTUALLY Chooses Your Hearing Care? #Shorts

How do insurance benefits influence hearing-care referrals? Dr. Cliff, AuD explains why the reason behind a referral matters. Subscribe for more hearing-care insights and hearing aid reviews. #Shorts #HearingCare #Audiology

10 Things I Wish Everyone With Tinnitus Knew

The Phonak Podcast | Adventure & Breaking Stigma | Robin Gillon ft. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels

The greatest adventures begin where the comfort zone ends. Phonak Ambassador and pro-freestyle skier Robin Gillon sits down with academic professor, Arctic explorer and Phonak advocate Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels for an inspiring conversation about hearing, resilience,...

Top tips for talking about hearing loss in the workplace

Workplace communication barriers remain a significant quality-of-life issue for people with hearing loss, and practical advocacy resources like this can support audiologists in counselling patients on self-advocacy at work.

Diving-related ear, nose, and throat disorders: a structured review using a phase-of-dive framework

Audiologists and ENT clinicians who see recreational divers should be aware of the phase-specific mechanisms of diving-related ear injury (e.g., barotrauma on descent, reverse squeeze on ascent); this review provides a useful clinical framework but does not change established...

Determinants of road traffic injury preventive behaviors among old pedestrians: An application of the PRECEDE model

While peripheral to audiology, this research touches on fall and injury risk in older adults — a population audiologists frequently serve — but the findings do not directly inform hearing-related clinical decisions.

Tinnitus and decreased sound tolerance in military Veterans: Relationship with cochlear deafferentation

Audiologists evaluating veterans with tinnitus and sound tolerance issues should consider assessing for cochlear deafferentation (hidden noise-induced nerve damage detectable via extended test measures such as electrocochleography or suprathreshold ABR) even when pure-tone...

Cognitive-motor interference during the suppression head impulse paradigm

Vestibular clinicians should be aware that adding a cognitive task during the suppression head impulse paradigm (a balance/eye-movement test) may affect results; this finding is preliminary and does not yet warrant changes to standard vestibular test protocols.

Automatic cochlear morphometry: intraindividual comparison of head CT vs carotid CT angiography, cervical spine, and paranasal sinus CT

If the study confirms that cochlear duct length measurements from non-dedicated CT scans (e.g., carotid CTA, cervical spine CT, sinus CT) are equivalent to head CT measurements, clinicians could use existing imaging for pre-cochlear-implant electrode planning without ordering...

Towards a consensus on hearing and structure preservation in cochlear implantation surgery: results of the HEARRING international group survey

No immediate practice change warranted; this survey maps expert opinion variability in hearing and structure preservation during CI surgery and is a stepping stone toward formal consensus guidelines rather than a source of new clinical directives.

How to manage thyroid eye disease: recent advances - a narrative review

This article is not relevant to the audiology field and carries no significance for hearing health professionals or researchers.

A novel technique utilizing a free gingival graft to treat a suprabony pocket distal to the mandibular second molar: a case report

This article is not relevant to the audiology field and carries no significance for hearing health professionals or researchers.

Is male sex a barrier to transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy? A comparative study of surgical outcomes

This article is not relevant to the audiology field and carries no significance for hearing health professionals or researchers.

Association of AutoART eCAP thresholds with behavioral THR and MCL in pediatric cochlear implant users

AutoART eCAP thresholds show an association with behavioral hearing thresholds and comfortable loudness levels in pediatric CI users, suggesting they may assist fitting in children who cannot self-report reliably, but further validation is needed before replacing behavioral...

Hearing aid use and its association with quality of life, perceived hearing handicap, and social networks in adults with hearing loss: A cross-sectional study

This cross-sectional study adds observational evidence that hearing aid use is associated with better quality of life and lower perceived hearing handicap in adults, reinforcing existing guidance to encourage uptake—but causation cannot be confirmed without longitudinal data.

Digital Referral Patterns for Otolaryngology Subspecialties: A Two-Year Nationwide Analysis in Saudi Arabia

Understanding digital referral bottlenecks in ENT/audiology pathways at a national level can inform health system planning and improve patient access to hearing care.

Neuroperiodization After Sport-Related Concussion: A Perspective on Adaptive Load Prescription Within the Amsterdam Return-to-Sport Strategy

For audiologists who manage post-concussion vestibular symptoms, emerging concussion rehabilitation frameworks may eventually intersect with vestibular rehabilitation protocols, though this perspective offers no immediate clinical guidance for hearing care.

The Gut-Ear Axis: From Dysbiosis to Auditory and Vestibular Disorders

Establishing a mechanistic link between gut microbiota and auditory/vestibular health could open entirely new preventive and therapeutic avenues in audiology.