Oticon GovernmentENT service Participated in the Joint Defense Veterans Audiology Conference (JDVAC), the annual meeting of the Veterans Audiology Association and the Military Audiology Society, whose team members reviewed the products and technology available in the Department of Veterans Affairs hearing aid contract.
The three-day conference will provide an opportunity for networking and collaboration between audiologists who treat active-duty military and those who work with veterans, the organization said.
A pre-conference training session also introduced Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT) testing to government hearing professionals. ACT supports the advanced adaptive features of Oticon Intent and Oticon Real in fitting by proactively predicting a person's real-world hearing in noise, the company said.
Throughout the conference, the Oticon Government Services team provided training and hands-on experience on Oticon Real and its entire portfolio of technology with BrainHearing available in the Government Services Clinic. Oticon exhibit visitors explored the use of pupillometry in auditory research. This is a valuable tool that allows researchers to measure the effort people put into understanding what is being said in a variety of real-world listening environments.
Conference attendees also reviewed the results of a recent study testing Oticon's Sudden Sound Stabilizer (SSS) on veterans who may become hypersensitive to loud noises due to exposure to combat-related noise. . SSS instantly attenuates sudden sounds that might startle the user, without compromising important audio information in the signal. Researchers found that SSS significantly reduced veterans' brain responses to sudden sounds: irritation while listening decreased by 22% and comfort while listening decreased by 18%. % increased, and the brain's response to sudden sounds decreased by 19%.
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Mr. Thomas Behrens, Head of Audiology at Oticon A/S, and Mr. Sébastien Santuret, Senior Researcher at the Oticon Applied Audiology Research Center. Evaluation of multimodal sensor integration for automatic steering of assisted listening in hearing aids and Individual adjustment of hearing aid settings in noise using audible contrast threshold.
Two educational sessions conducted by Senior Researcher Kasper Eskelund focused on: Neural tracking of speech and environmental sounds through multimodal sensor integration into hearing aids and Transient administration reduces EEG responses to sudden sounds in veterans.
*Eskelund et al., 2023 SurudundSound Stabilizer for Veterans. Oticon white paper.
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