Category Archives: Audiology ToTTs

Benefits of Transparent Masks During Provision of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology Services

Despite easing masks restrictions for fully vaccinated individuals, the CDC continues to emphasize the need for healthcare professionals, staff, patients, and visitors to wear masks in all health care facilities.1 Masks come in many forms including 3-ply surgical, N95 and … Continue reading

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How to Use Your Reception Area to Educate, Engage & Inspire Patients – Michele Ahlman

By the time a patient walks in your front door, you’ve already invested significant time, money and resources to get them there. To optimize this investment, you want to reinforce their decision to choose your practice and help them move … Continue reading

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Listening Tube for Audiologists with Hearing Loss – guest post by Laura Schauer, AuD

As a graduate audiology student with cochlear implants, I struggled with performing listening checks on hearing aids because traditional listening tubes route signals through the ear canal. I tried attaching tubing to FM systems and remote microphones but listening to … Continue reading

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Hottest Product from 2017 You Gotta Know About

While this hearing instrument dehumidifier is not new to the 2018 Oaktree Products catalog, the PerfectDry Lux (item# 00016) resonated with many of our customers (and their patients) last year, resulting in skyrocketing demand. The PerfectDry Lux first appeared in … Continue reading

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Thinking Outside of the Packaged Product’s Box

Recently, a customer was seeking a wireless communication solution for her clinical practice that would enable an audiologist to privately communicate with another audiologist during pediatric assessments. Specifically, the audiologist sitting outside of the audiometric booth (at the audiometer) needed a means to relay … Continue reading

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Audiology ToTT: Retention Clip Solution for RIC/RITEs

“Does anyone know of a hearing aid retainer that will work with a receiver-in-the-canal (RIC) and/or receiver-in-the-ear (RITE) for my adult patient?”  That is a question I hear asked more and more these days. A hearing aid retainer is an accessory that attaches to … Continue reading

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Ten Tips for Audiology Students on Making the Most of Your Summer Break – guest post by Lana Joseph

As I am finishing up my second year as an AuD student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, I wanted to share my top ten tips on how AuD Students can make the most of this summer break! … Continue reading

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Audiology ToTT: Sticky Situations with Tubing

A question was recently posted on the AAA’s Audiology Community by a member seeking advice as to how remove tubing that has become “glued” to the earhook of a BTE without damaging the earhook. Fellow Audiology colleagues (aka #AudPeeps on Twitter) offered very good … Continue reading

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