| Medicare Patients May Exceed Therapy Caps |
| The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will allow certain exceptions from the $1,740 therapy cap to eligible beneficiaries. |
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| Advances in Audiology Research: An Overview |
| Our knowledge of hearing and hearing loss is still making important advances in evoked response findings, age-related deficits, newborn hearing, irreplaceable hair cells as well as other areas. |
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| Hearing Aid Tax Credit Bill Making Progress |
| Legislation to grant a tax credit for the purchase of certain hearing aids made progress in 2005 and ASHA hopes to build on that support in 2006. |
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| ED Proposes New Rules for Students With Disabilities |
| ASHA recently submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Education on the 2% flexibility option for assessing students with disabilities. |
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| High Notes: Audiologist Serves as Consultant to Orchestra |
| Concerned about the dangerous sound levels of classical music, audiologist Richard Israel serves as a consulting audiologist to the National Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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| ASHFoundation Golf Benefit Raises $40,000 for Research and Scholarship Programs |
| More than 40 sponsors and 80 players and golf touring professionals joined forces for a weekend of competition and camaraderie. |
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| 2006 Convention Builds Bridges |
| The Convention theme "Building Bridges Through Communication" will highlight the bridges between the professions of speech-language pathology, audiology, and allied professions, according to the Convention co-chairs. |
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| Hearing Loss Rises Among U.S. Soldiers in Iraq |
| Soldiers sent to battle zones are over 50 times more likely to suffer noise-induced hearing loss than soldiers who do not deploy, according to recent research. *Audiology* |
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| Benefits of Fitting One Versus Two Hearing Aids |
| A report on a broad-ranging self-report based inquiry into the function of hearing in the real world which examines the benefits of binaural hearing aids. |
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| The Counseling Relationship |
| Audiologists adopt a necessary but unconventional role by forming a counseling relationship with those they serve. *corrected article* |
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