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November, 2007
Fall 2007 Newsletter available for download
Our office newsletter, Hearing Alert, is available for download. This is our annual patient newsletter that includes information about our assistive listening device, ALD, sale just in time for the holidays. You'll find great saving on TV listeners, amplified telephones, ear and hearing aid dryers, and just about any ALD we carry. I placed a link here (about 2200kb's to download). to a pdf document that you can download to your computer. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view this file. If you need more information or don't know what Acrobat Reader is, don't despair. The reader is FREE for all computer operating systems. Click here to visit Adobe's site and download a reader.
March 31,
2006
YES!! Apple issues update
for Ipod and Nano to limit maximum volume levels.
Earlier this week Apple computer issued a software update for
their video Ipod and Nano music devices. The update was NOT required
by federal or state law, but was very likely done to avoid potential
lawsuits over hearing loss when the devices are used at high
volume levels. Previously Apple included a written disclaimer/warning
with the product urging safe use, but there were no physical
controls to limit the use of high volume. The Ipod is capable
of producing sound levels which peak above 110 dB. At this level
even minimal use can cause permanent hearing loss. While Apple's
products do not provide significantly different volume levels
than devices made by other companies;, Apple sold nearly 50 million
devices--significantly more that all the other companies put
together. This made them an easy target for litigation. If you
are an Apple fan, you might also point out that the company has
a history of standing behind their products and want to ensure
consumer safety.
There are two components to the update:
- A software interface to limit the amount
of maximum volume for any user.
- Additional password access to the interface
to prevent over-ride of the maximum volume levels. This prevents
anyone who doesn't know the password, such as a child, from entering
the interface and changing the maximum volume.
The update can be downloaded here. To learn more about the update, click
here.
January
29, 2006
Ipods & other types
of personal listening devices; Just
how much volume is too much?
Apple computer experienced world
wide record sales of the ipod last year. It's hard to walk anywhere
today and not see someone listening to music. So, how volume
is too much and are these devices dangerous to your hearing?
Well, the answer is that these devices CAN produce volume levels
capable of damaging your hearing.
There have been a series of articles published in the last few
months. I am posting links below so that you can learn more:
- Rolling Stones
magazine article feature a report with Pete Townshend here
- ASHA,
American Speech & Hearing Association, published two statements
last year. There is a link here
that includes a video public service announcement, and another
link here This site has the most comprehensive
information.
- EarBud.org is
a web site sponsored by the House Ear Institute. There are hosting
the MTV commercial on the risk of listening to music at loud
levels. Also very informative site with some general guidelines
on MP3 player use. Click here
to visit their site.
- CNN News
published a report just before the holidays here
There is direct relationship between the
loudness level and and how long you should use the devices. Volume
levels which are at 60% of the available level, really should
be use for more than 1/2 hour per/day. If you listen at lower
levels, you can significantly increase your usage per day.
October
12, 2005
A History of Hearing Aids
Recently the Washington School
of Medicine published a web history of hearing aids from the
19th and 20th centuries. You will find an excellent photo gallery
and a time line to name just a couple of items. I found the information
very interesting. If you would like to learn more about the history
of hearing of hearing aids, click here to visit the web site
June 5,
2005
New Reduced Cost On Hearing Aid
Batteries
Last fall we began using a new
supplier for hearing aid batteries. I am happy to report that
the new supplier continued to deliver the same high quality battery
you've always purchased from our office. In addition, we were
able to add two additional batteries per package without raising
the price! That's right, for a little at $3.00 a package, you
can purchase 6 batteries. In case quantities, batteries are as
little at 0.37 cents each. For more information, click here
to visit the download page. There you find a money saving coupon
and learn how to start saving money on your hearing aid batteries
today!
June 1,
2005
New Consumer Website and Education Brochure
Better Hearing Institute, BHI,
expanded their web site to include consumer information. In the
past, they were devoted exclusively to professionals dealing
with hearing loss. If you have never visited their site, I recommend
you stop in and check out their content. Click here to visit there home page.
Recently BHI published: Your Guide To Better Hearing.
It is a comprehensive consumer guide to hearing loss. I highly
recommend you read it! For your convenience, I've placed a link
to the pdf file here.
(It's a 32 page document that is about 3 mb's to download). You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view this
file. If you need more information or don't know what Acrobat
Reader is, don't despair. The reader is FREE for all computer
operating systems. Click here to visit Adobe's site and download a
reader.
January
17, 2005
Doctor Of Audiology. Au.D. Completed
I've received many emails asking
why the web site updates were slow coming last year. Well, I
was working hard to complete a journey that I started two years
ago to upgrade my credentials. For the past two years I worked
and studied so that I could earn my Doctor of Audiology, Au.D.,
degree. The graduation ceremony was in Tempe AZ August 2004.
I am very proud of earning this degree as well as seeing how
the effort helps our office serve you better!
The Master's degree that I graduated with
in 1987 will be phased out of most academic programs by the end
of this year. Our professional organizations decided that clinicians
needed to replace this older academic degree with a professional
degree that would prepare clinicians to better serve the public.
During this unique transition period that began in the late 1990's,
I was allowed to earn this degree without leaving my practice.
During the day I saw patients in the office, and at night I participated
in a distance learning program through the Arizona School of
Health Science School of the A.T. Still University of Health
Sciences. The new professional degree, Au.D. exceeds the academic
and training of all previous degrees. Unlike the Ph.D. that focuses
on research, the Au.D. is a professional practice degree. For
more information about what Doctors Of Audiology do, download
this short informational pdf here. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader
to view this file. If you need more information or don't know
what an Acrobat Reader is, click here to learn more.
If you would like to know more about my
experience in the Au.D program, I published a report last year.
Click here to visit the
link and download the report.
August
2001
Gillian completes audiometric technician
training!
Gillian just returned from Portland
where she completed training and certification as an audiometric
technician. Naturally, she graduated at the top of her class.
You'll see her helping out more in the office with testing in
the future. Way to go Gillian!.
May 2001
New commercials uploaded.
We just finished production on
two new office commercials. We have two themes: the bingo parlor
and the golf course. . Poor hearing can cost you the bingo prize!
. You also need good hearing when you are out on the golf course.
These commercials can be downloaded. To download the commercials,
click here and follow the on screen
instructions.
January
2001
Songbird disposable hearing aid
now available!
- Requires no major financial or emotional
commitment.
- Is inexpensive costs less than
a dollar a day (professional fees not included). At this price,
a spare hearing aid is very affordable.
- Is always state-of-the-art technological
advances are never more than 40 days away.
- Is comfortable features a ComforSeal
soft tip.
- Is easy to maintain it's disposable,
so no batteries, cleaning, or adjustments are required. Repairs
are never needed. If a Songbird fails to perform as promised,
we'll replace it FREE.
- Is easy to fit same-day fitting
lets you have a new hearing aid in just one office visit.
- Requires no costly insurance policies
to cover the loss of a hearing aid. It is disposable just
get a new one!
- Is virtually invisible and gets you back
in the conversation!
December
2000

Christmas specials and stocking
stuffers!
It is that time of the year again.
If you want to get someone you love a gift that will help them
to hear better, now is your chance. Each year in December we
put all of our assistive listening devices on sale. Assistive
listening devices are devices like amplified telephone, TV amplifiers,
hearing aid dryers, and shake awake alarm clock to name a few.
You can see a list of most of our items by reading the November
2000 newsletter. Click here to view this newsletter. You'll need
Acrobat Reader to view the file. To learn more about Acrobat
Reader, click here.

September
2000
Don't let heat and humidity damage
your hearing aid.
Heat and humidity are hard on hearing
aids. They can cause your hearing aids to short out or to distort
sound so that you no longer hear clearly. Don't let this happen
to your hearing aids. Even if you purchased your hearing aids
somewhere else, you won't want to miss this special free opportunity.
Click here
to learn what you can expect for your hearing aids. You'll need
Acrobat Reader to view the file. To learn more about Acrobat
Reader, click here.
August
2000
Results of the National Inline
Speed Skating Championships in Lincoln Nebraska.
Club Fresno, sponsored by Basin
Audiology, just returned for the national championships in Lincoln
Nebraska. Click here to read how they did.
May 2000
Why people turn to Basin Audiology
even when they didn't purchase hearing aids there!
You asked for it, and now you have
it. You've purchased you hearing aids somewhere else, but now you would really like to have your hearing aids "adopted" by us. We have a money saving service contract that you can purchase. You'll be able take advantage of our service contract program at an affordable price. You'll be getting the same worry free service for your hearing instruments that our patients get when they purchased their hearing aids from us. You may download the file as a pdf. Click here
to download the file. You'll need Acrobat Reader to view the
file. To learn more about Acrobat Reader, click here.
September
2000
Don't let heat and humidity damage
your hearing aid.
Heat and humidity are hard on hearing
aids. They can cause your hearing aids to short out or to distort
sound so that you no longer hear clearly. Don't let this happen
to your hearing aids. Even if you purchased your hearing aids
somewhere else, you won't want to miss this special free opportunity.
Click here
to learn what you can expect for your hearing aids. You'll need
Acrobat Reader to view the file. To learn more about Acrobat
Reader, click here.
May 2000
Why people turn to Basin Audiology
even when they didn't purchase hearing aids there!
You asked for it, and now you have
it. You've purchased you hearing aids
somewhere else, but now you would really like to have your hearing
aids "adopted" by us. We have a money saving service
contract that you can purchase. You'll be able take advantage
of our service contract program at an affordable price. You'll
be getting the same worry free service for your hearing instruments
that our patients get when they purchased their hearing aids
from us.
Click here
to download the file. You'll need Acrobat Reader to view the
file. To learn more about Acrobat Reader, click here.
Stan
Rogers Was The Winner. Stan
won our Fall 1999 hearing aid give away. Stan now wears two new
complete In-The-Ear digitally programmed hearing aids. Here's
what Stan has to say about his new hearing aids:
"I
went to church Sunday and for the first time in years I could
hear the services. Now I can have company and be able to carry
on a descent conversation with them. How wonderful for me and
also them"
Stan Rogers
Klamath Falls, OR
April 2000
Basin Audiology has sponsored
a speed skating team, Club Fresno.
February
2000
I just returned
from a trip to the Siemens Lab in California. It was an exciting
time. Siemens just introduced their latest digital hearing aid,
Signia. This is the most advanced digital hearing aid made today.
The Signia uses eight different channels to process sound. The
Signia digital processor works to separate speech from noise
so that you don't have to work as hard to understand speech.
Unique to the Signia is the ability to reduce feedback automatically.
It's available in all of the common sizes, including the Complete-In-The-Canal
aid. To learn more about the Signia, click here to visit the Siemens site.
12/15/99
Gillian
Attends Hearing Aid workshop.
In December,
Gillian attended a workshop at the Siemens hearing aid factory
in Los Angeles. It was a great opportunity for them to learn
how a hearing aid lab operates.
Here
is what Gillian had to say!
I recently had the opportunity to travel to Siemens Hearing in
Cerittos, CA. Christie and I were invited to get a more in depth
understanding of the repair and manufacture of hearing aids.
We followed an aid through the steps of manufacturing, starting
with the pouring of the shell and ending with the shipment of
the aid to the dispenser, and all the quality control check points
the aid went through in between. Brent King, a trainer for Siemens
showed us first hand the materials used to make the aid. He demonstrated
tips and tricks on how to repair holes in the hearing aids using
an ultra strong UV material. The material is the same as is used
in the shell of the hearing aid so patched are almost invisible
and very strong. He set the patches using a UV gun, similar to
the guns used in a dentist office to seal the bonding on teeth.
He showed us how to replace the string on a CIC and patch holes
in vents in the office to avoid sending the aid in for repair.
Brent also talked to us about the future of hearing aids with
soft shell CICs and removable faceplates in the not too distant
future. Christie and I were also treated to an afternoon of shopping
in Beverly Hills and a day at Disneyland. That too was a learning
experience. We learned that if you give a famous person change
for a parking meter, he has to let you take his picture and it
takes more than one day to see Disneyland. But that is another
story.
2/1/99 Basin Audiology
purchases 35 year old local hearing aid office.Click here
to read more
P
r e s s R e l e a s e s
After
nearly 35 years of practice in Klamath Falls, Dr. Lawson has
decided to retire from the hearing aid business. We welcome all
of Dr. Lawson's previous hearing aid patients to our office.

Suddenly,
Hite Can Hear Again
article appeared on Thursday, September 25, 1998 and is approximately
300k. Dore Hite, the past mayor of Merrill, was fit with new
hearing aids by Basin Audiology. Click here
to download this file. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to
view this file. If you need more information or don't know what
an Acrobat Reader is, click here to
learn more.
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