Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security
Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with …

Objective Tinnitus is the perception of sound without an external source. More than 50
million people in the United States have reported experiencing tinnitus, resulting in an …

Purpose: This article is the first of 2 that present basic guidelines for audiologists to provide
clinical management of tinnitus. The method, termed audiologic tinnitus management (ATM) …

Progressive Audiologic Tinnitus Management (PATM) is based on the premise that tinnitus
is managed most efficiently using a hierarchy of clinical services that address different levels …

Purpose A reduction in hearing sensitivity is often considered to be a normal age-related
change. Recent studies have revisited prior ways of thinking about sensory changes over …

The purpose of this study was to compare auditory thresholds obtained for continuous and
pulsed tones in listeners with normal hearing. Auditory thresholds, test—retest reliability …

Purpose: The purpose of this clinical focus article was to describe a new online simulation
program for pure-tone audiometry. Method: Fictional but realistic patient profiles and testing …

Loudness balance techniques are commonly employed to match the loudness of tinnitus
using either pulsed or continuous tones; however, it is not known whether the tone duration …

Purpose This study evaluated the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's
recommendation that audiometric testing for patients with tinnitus should use pulsed or …

Objective: To develop and evaluate a software application capable of conducting Pure-Tone
Audiometry tests in clinical practice. Design: We designed and developed a mobile software …