What Is Noise-Induced Hearing Loss? Causes and Care
Are you or a loved one suffering from noise-induced hearing loss? Discover the potential causes and explore the treatment options available to you.
Difficulty Hearing With Background Noise: Is it Hearing Loss?
If you or a loved one can’t hear with background noise, that could be a sign of moderate hearing loss. Learn more about the possible causes and treatments.
LACE Down Under: Audiology Australia talks LACE
LACE Auditory Training was featured in a special aural rehabilitation issue of Audiology Australia’s Audiology Now magazine.
Why You Should Use Auditory Training In Your Clinic
I almost quit Audiology, once. Here is my story.
Our LACE Redesign is Live!
Making LACE more visually engaging was one of the top feature requests in our 2020 survey of Hearing Professionals and LACE users. We took that feedback and spent the last several months completely redesigning the look and feel of LACE. It’s now more modern, aesthetically pleasing, and offers enhanced visual feedback throughout the training. We…
What’s on Your Bucket List of Sounds?
Listen Imagine that you have a bucket list of the last things you want to hear in your lifetime. Not places you want to go, or things you want to do, but things you want to hear. What sounds would you want to hear – and more importantly, truly listen to? How would those sounds…
Evelyn Glennie: Still Helping Us Listen
“My aim really is to teach the world to listen,” says Evelyn Glennie at the opening of her wildly popular 2003 TED Talk, “How to Truly Listen.” “That’s my only real aim in life.” Much has changed in the 12 years since the celebrated Scottish percussionist urged an audience in Monterey to “really use our bodies as a resonating…
10 Recent Comments From LACE Users
We would like to thank everyone who has reached the end of their initial LACE training and has taken the time to provide feedback on their experiences. User feedback is very important to product evolution and we certainly appreciate hearing from all of you. Below is just a small sample of some recent feedback we’ve…
Your Brain’s Creative Response to Hearing Loss
Our understanding of the human brain is always changing much like the brain itself, which is constantly forming new pathways in the phenomenon known as neuroplasticity. Now we know that the brain responds to even slight diminishment in sensory perception. New research is suggesting that the brain actually reorganizes itself in response to the loss of…
Independent study of the effectiveness of LACE
A recent independent study of the effectiveness of LACE training has been published in the journal, Cerebral Cortex (Song, et al, 2011). In this study, the authors describe behavioral improvements on speech in noise measures, and, for the first time, changes in neurophysiologic responses in participants that completed the LACE training. More about the study:Participants…