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Dr. Ross on Hearing Loss


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Dr. Mark Ross is a Principal Investigator of the RERC on Hearing Enhancement, Professor Emeritus of Audiology, University of Connecticut and has served as Vice President of the SHHH Board of Trustees. He writes a regular column for Hearing Loss Magazine- The Journal of the Hearing Loss Association of America, called "Developments in Research and Technology." He has published and lectured extensively on topics dealing with hearing loss.  

As an individual who has worn a hearing aid for almost fifty years, Dr. Ross brings a special degree of credibility to his publications. Links to a selection of these appear below. 

Dr. Ross has graciously offered to respond to questions arising from any of his articles. You may contact him via e-mail at mark.ross@uconn.edu.  Listed below are a variety of articles written by Dr. Ross, arranged by category.

The Hard of Hearing Person

   Personal and Social Identity of Hard of Hearing People
   My “Near Deaf” Experience

   Reflections of a Hard of Hearing Audiologist

   Deaf and Hard of Hearing People:  Making Distinctions 

 

Hearing Loss

   Low Frequency Residual Hearing Revisited

   Coping with a Hearing Loss

   Residual Hearing

   The "Occlusion Effect" 

   The Audiogram: Explanation and Significance

   Hearing in Noise 

   Developments in Tinnitus

   Cochlear Dead Regions 

 

Considering a Hearing Aid

   Should I Get a Hearing Aid?

   Case for a Trial Period

   Why do Hearing Aids Cost So Much? 

   Expectations: A Consumer Checklist

   Redefining the Hearing Aid Selection Process

   Are Binaural Hearing Aids Better?

 

Cochlear Implants

   Reflections on My Cochlear Implant:  Part One

   Reflections on My Cochlear Implant:  Part Two

 

Aural Rehabilitation

   State of the Science on Aural Rehabilitation

   Peer Mentoring: Its Time has Come

   Aural Rehabilitation in Australia 

   Maximizing Residual Hearing

   A Retrospective Look at the Future of Aural Rehabilitation

   Getting Through: Talking to a Person with Hearing Loss 

   Speechreading 

   Assertive Listening and Hearing Tactics

   Tracking and Communication Repair Procedures 

   Home-based Auditory and Speechreading Training

   Aural Rehabilitation: Some Personal Reflections 

 

Hearing Aids

   Why People Won’t Wear Hearing Aids 

   Expectations, Hearing Aids, and Aural Rehabilitation

   Evaluating the Performance of a Hearing Aid in the Real-Ear

   Hearing Aid Research:  Reporting both Positive and Negative Findings

   When a Hearing Aid is Not Enough

   Hearing Aid Research

   Is there a "Best" Hearing Aid?

   Frequency Compression Hearing Aids

   Noise Reduction Hearing Aids:  Why They're Needed, and How they Work

   Implantable Hearing Aids

   Different kinds of implants:  Auditory, Penetrating and Hybrid

   Improving Hearing Aid Design and Performance    

   Over-the-Counter (OTC) Hearing Aids 

   Audibility and Useful Hearing Aid Features

   Reflections on Binaural Hearing Aid Fittings

 

Digital Hearing Aids

   Digital Hearing Aids: From the Perspective of One Consumer/Audiologist

   Some Reflections on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Hearing Aids

   Digital Hearing Aids: Magic and Marketing?

   Digital Hearing Aids:  Still More Comments

   Premium Digital Hearing Aids

 

  

Hearing Aid Use
  
Helpful Hints to the New Hearing Aid User

   Hearing Aid Troubleshooting

   Hearing Aid Services and Satisfaction: The Consumer Viewpoint

   Consumer Satisfaction is Not Enough

   Feedback Cancellation Systems and Open-Ear Hearing Aid Fitting

   Acceptable Noise Levels (ANL)

 

Hearing Assistance Technologies

   Supplement your Hearing Aids: Hearing Assistive Technology (HAT)
   Microphone Technique

   Hearing Assistive Technologies

   Beyond Hearing Aids – Hearing Assistive Technologies

   Telecoils and Telephones

   Telecoils as Assistive Listening Devices

   More on T-Coils

   An FM System for Speechreading

   Listening with a "Third Ear": FM Systems

 

Children and Hearing Loss

   Definitions and Descriptions

   Some Reflections on Early Childhood Deafness

   Classroom Sound-Field Systems

   Don’t Ignore the Hearing of Hard of Hearing Children

 

Research

   RERC Assistive Listening Devices Project

   Evidence-Based Audiology

   A Clinical Research Summit  

 

 


 

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