The Devices

Batteries - Information about batteries for your devices.

Assistive Technology - Assistive Listening Devices, TTY's, Vibrating Alarm Clock, and all those other gadgets that help make life a little easier.

Hearing Aid & Earmold Information & Resources

Tactile Device Information & Resources

Special Purpose Aids:

• Bone Conduction Hearing Aids
  • Hearing by Bone Conduction: Physical and Physiological Aspects
• Envoy^TM - Implant for the middle ear. 
• HiSonic® Ultrasonic Bone Conduction Hearing Instrument
• Magnetic Hearing Aid - Under development.
• Radiant Beam Array
  • Directional Hearing Array
  • Starkey Radiant Beam Array
  • Microphone array necklace aids the deaf in discerning speech
• Tactile Aids - An Overview

Implantable Hearing Devices 

• General Info
  • Implantable Hearing Aids
  • Bone Conduction Implants: The When and Why
• Brain Stem Implant

  • FDA OKs First Hearing Device Capable of Bypassing Nerves in the Ear

  • FDA's Medical Devices Advisory Committee Transcript - Brain Stem Implants 

  • Woman's Operation Offers Hope for Deaf
• Cochlear Implant Information & Resources - This is one of the most popular areas of our website.
• Other Systems
  • Digisonic Auditory Implants
  • Implex - currently applying to the FDA for authorization to use this device in a multi-center clinical study in the United States of America.
  • Vibrant Soundbridge - An implant that converts acoustic sound to vibrations inside the middle ear. FDA approved on 08-31-00. The FDA also cautioned that about 2% of patients actually suffered worsened hearing after implantation, 5% had long-term ear pain and 16% reported a permanent feeling of ``fullness'' in the ear.
    • Vibrant Semi-implantable Hearing Device With Digital Sound Processing Effective Gain and Speech Perception
  • Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)
    • (BAHA) Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid Surgery
    • BAHA Stories
    • Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids
    • Entific Medical Systems - Information about BAHA
    • Surgical Placement and Efficacy of a Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid in a Dog with Conductive Deafness
    • The Patients BAHA Web Site

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