(28 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 22 October 2024
1. Pan of various hearing aid devices at Brooklyn College’s audiology clinic
2. Closeup of Reisman wearing over-the-counter hearing aid
3. Closeup of Reisman holding Apple AirPods Pro 2
4. Reisman wearing AirPods
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruth Reisman-Aguilar, audiologist/doctoral lecturer at Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center AuD Program:
“Apple recently released a software that’s compatible with all of their Apple products. So you’d need to have either an iPhone or an iPad to be able to get the benefits of this hearing health feature within the device. So it allows you to actually go through the steps of checking or screening your hearing. It’ll take those tests and actually plot it along a hearing graph that looks like an audiogram. And through that you can firstly adjust the sound quality of the devices to actually improve any kind of streaming media, streaming music, streaming through your phone or through your iPad. Additionally, it also has a hearing protective mechanism within the AirPod Pro 2.”
6. Closeup of AirPod Pro 2 in Reisman’s ear
7. Closeup of AirPods on table
8. Mid of Reisman holding AirPods
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Reston, Virginia – 17 September 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Kelley, executive director of Hearing Loss Association of America:
“You know, we’re all wearing these types of earbuds anyway, so now the FDA has authorized them to have the software to become an over-the-counter hearing aid. So it’s just mainstream. And anybody who is concerned about a little bit of stigma and they want to just look like everybody else, well, you will, because we all have a set of these in our pockets.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 22 October 2024
10. Closeup of ReSound over-the-counter hearing aids (equivalent to Jabra)
11. Reisman holding ReSound hearing aids
12. Reisman demonstrates wearing the ReSound hearing aid
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruth Reisman-Aguilar, audiologist/doctoral lecturer at Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center AuD Program:
“Over-the-counter hearing aids will only meet the needs for those with mild to moderate hearing loss. So with those with more complex hearing losses, severe hearing losses, hearing losses that have some form of medical concerns attached to it, prescription hearing aids is really the way to go.”
14. Closeup of pamphlet in audiology clinic
15. Closeup of otoscopes
16. Reisman demonstrating how to pair Oticon prescription hearing aid with phone
17. Pan of ear model
18. Pan down of noise level chart
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruth Reisman-Aguilar, audiologist/doctoral lecturer at Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center AuD Program:
“Mild to moderate hearing loss differs from higher degrees of hearing loss in that, you know, they may still feel like they can hear some things and some environments are okay, but in most of their day-to-day-life, so in social settings, in areas where things are less than ideal, they may struggle.”
20. Closeup of Sony over-the-counter hearing aids
21. Various of Reisman demonstrating Sony hearing aids
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Ruth Reisman-Aguilar, audiologist/doctoral lecturer at Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center AuD Program:
23. Various of Reisman demonstrating Eargo over-the-counter hearing aids
24. Apple AirPods Pro 2 box
STORYLINE:
Some Apple AirPod wireless headphones can be used as hearing aids with a new software update available this week. It’s a high-profile move that experts applaud, even if they only reach a small portion of the millions of Americans with hearing loss.
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