About four years ago, while sitting at my desk at work, a couple of PSAPs came across my desk with the following note: “Is this something we should offer our customers?” That day, I embarked on a series of projects with my audiology colleagues at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to objectively examine different PSAPs. These collaborations have resulted in a recent publication comparing coupler and real-ear performance between PSAPs and hearing aids (Voss, Oeding, Bankaitis, Pumford, & Valente, 2018), the creation of an ongoing PSAP database, and development of a PSAP resource section accessible from the Oaktree Products website.
On Friday, March 1, 2019, join me live for a 90-minute AudiologyOnline webinar Through the PSAP Looking Glass where I will share my adventures vetting PSAPs. One objective of this webinar is to showcase performance data of a handful of devices trending in the media including those making the most recent “Best of PSAP Hearing Devices of 2019” list. If you can’t make it this Friday, the webinar will be recorded and made available as a free-to-view course. To earn CEUs, become a member of AudiologyOnline for unlimited access to over 1400 online courses developed by audiologists and industry experts. For more information, refer to AudiologyOnline: How It Works.
