10-Year Marketing Plan Battery-Less Hearing Aid Executive Summary Hard of Hearing patients need something that will suit there financial goals in the long run‚ be less of a hassle to worry about and enhance their hearing all at the same time. We propose in creating a Battery-Less-Hearing Aid and believe that it is the best option to go because Hard of Hearing patients will never have to worry about recharging batteries or buying new ones all the time like you do with our current hearing
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Lily Liao Medical Interventions Mrs. Truluck 3/2/15 1.3.2 – Career Journal: Audiologist Description Audiologists help patients with their hearing‚ balance‚ or other ear related problems. They are experts in the structures of the ear and can help diagnose and treat hearing issues. Common duties of these workers include identifying‚ assessing and treating hearing problems and balance disorders‚ discussing symptoms with patients‚ documenting treatment‚ ordering equipment and hiring employees. They must
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Cochlear Implant A cochlear implant is a small device that provides direct electrical stimulation to the auditory (hearing) nerve in the inner ear. It was developed to help children and adults with a severe to profound hearing loss who cannot be helped with hearing aids may be helped with cochlear implants. This type of hearing loss is called ‘sensorineural‚’ which means there is damage to the tiny hair cells in the part of the inner ear called the cochlea. Because of this damage‚ sound cannot
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Julia is a 10-year-old girl with a cochlear implant and is in the process of getting a second implant in a few weeks. In this video interview‚ she is asked a series of questions from her older cousin. Julia presents with language development issues that are a possible result of her hearing loss. Julia does appear to be able to read lips and does have some sign language abilities. During the interview‚ if Julia did not hear the question‚ she would say “what” and look directly at her cousin’s face
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Mikaela Del Rio ASL 1 Mrs. Martin 20 January 2015 Cochlear Implant RST Imagine a world where no one changed anything about themselves‚ in the fear of changing their identity. No one would have braces and there would be a lot of crooked teeth. Nobody would get haircuts‚ and there would be a lot of unmanageable long hair. But if you really think about it‚ these things could never change who you are‚ they only enhance what you can become. People get braces so nobody makes them uncomfortable when they
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MARKET PREDICTIONS Hearing Journal: December 2012 - Volume 65 - Issue 12 - p 14–16 Hearing Industries Association - “The current unit sales in the US are below my expectation of [approximately] five percent‚” observed Oliver Metzger‚ a life sciences equity analyst at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt‚ Germany‚ who tracks hearing aid stocks. “I had imagined that the market growth would increase in units after it had grown only by [about] three percent in units in 2011 and after [the first quarter]
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When it comes to raising a son or daughter everyone has their own opinions about which one is easier to raise. Parents are still raising their children to do activities which are gender specific. Parents should realize that they raise their children‚ whether boy or girl‚ very different from the very day that they are born. If you have a daughter then most parents tend to try to always protect her from being hurt by falling down‚ but if you have a son then most parents tend to encourage him to be
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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate evidence-based best practice for hearing aid fitting procedure. Literature review has been completed‚ and when evidence based studies were not found‚ manufacturers’ white papers were reviewed. This patient is a 75 year old man who has a bilateral symmetrical mild to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss above 500 Hz with good word recognition scores in each ear. The patient expressed difficulty talking to his wife in the car and from distance at
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Just like in any population there is always something that threatens the well being of the group especially when the group is in the minority. For the deaf community the cochlear implant has caused an uproar over the years. A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear. But unlike its counterpart hearing aids‚ which makes sound louder‚ cochlear implants do the work of damaged parts of the inner ear(cochlea) to provide sound signals to the
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1. Why is this person a candidate for hearing aids in the first place? (no citations necessary for this question) Mr. Johnson is a candidate for hearing aids in the first place for a number of reasons. First‚ an audiometric test showed that he has a mild sloping to a severe high frequency sensorineural hearing loss in both of his ears‚ consistent with noise- induced hearing loss. Since Mr. Johnson is experiencing sensorineural hearing loss‚ unfortunately‚ his hearing loss is permanent. However‚
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