A clinical audiologist and postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, was recently awarded $75k to study the way attitudes about hearing loss and hearing health care change when patients consider an over-the-counter model of hearing-aid distribution.
plans) won’t touch it. Unlike eye care, oral care, and even foot care, it hasn’t spawned its own retail industry—perhaps because hearing health care has a harder time driving the consumer market with a cosmetic angle. That’s left people in the early stages of hearing loss with few choices outside of doctors’ visits and hearing aids . Plus there’s the social stigma associated with hearing loss, which discourages many from seeking help.Jasleen Singh aims to change that.
Why is it that hearing aids are not currently covered by most insurance companies? You can find visual aids in any drugstore, but in terms of the retail market, hearing devices have been so far behind. More and more, our smartphones are actually able to give us much more information about the levels of what we’re setting our headphones to. There are sound-level-meter apps. There are a lot more tangible tools for the individual that can allow them to start thinking about their hearing more seriously.
Genetics play a big role in whether or not hearing loss is going to be something that you experience at some point in your life. But hearing protection is the number one way to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Noise-induced hearing loss is super challenging, because of the way that it affects our auditory system. It specifically impacts the frequencies that are related to speech, specifically consonants, and how we’re able to have intelligibility when it comes to conversations.
I’m basically trying to see whether or not this new model of hearing health-care delivery reduces some of the barriers, in terms of being able to actually physically handle the device yourself and program the device yourself.
The specific AHRF grant is intended to kinda wrap out in about a year’s time. Like I mentioned before, it’s seed funding, so the idea is to get you started with an idea and see whether or not it can be scalable. The other study that I mentioned that our lab is doing runs until the end of next year, so, OK. We do have several projects people can absolutely get involved in with respect to OTC hearing aids.
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