Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for Out-of-State Health-Care Providers Assisting with Disaster Response

In accordance with Section 418.016 of the Texas Government Code, Governor Greg Abbott has temporarily suspended all necessary statutes and rules to allow licensed health-care providers employed by a hospital and who are in good standing in another state to practice in Texas to assist with disaster response operations. 

This suspension is in effect until terminated by the Office of the Governor or until the Hurricane Harvey disaster declaration is lifted or expires.

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Auditory Training Schedules: What Is the Best Strategy?

Are the outcomes of an auditory training (AT) program better if the training is intensive and done close together in time (i.e., massed) or spread apart (i.e., spaced)? Tye-Murray et al (2017) attempted to answer this question.

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How to Enjoy a Holiday Weekend

With Labor Day right around the corner, many of us may be planning some much-needed time away from the office. Are you able to truly relax and leave work behind when you are on vacation? Not everyone is able to stop thinking about work when they are not in the office. If this sounds like you, you may want to check out Art Markman's Harvard Business Review article titled “How to Forget About Work When You're Not Working.”

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Laryngeal Manual Therapies for Behavioral Dysphonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Publication date: Available online 26 August 2017
Source:Journal of Voice
Author(s): Vanessa Veis Ribeiro, Vanessa Pedrosa, Kelly Cristina Alves Silverio, Mara Behlau
ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to review systematically the literature and to analyze the effectiveness of laryngeal manual therapy in addressing the overall severity of vocal deviation, the intensity of vocal and laryngeal symptoms, and musculoskeletal pain in adults with behavioral dysphonia.Study DesignThis is a systematic review and meta-analysis.MethodsTwo independent authors selected clinical trials that analyzed the effectiveness of laryngeal manual therapy compared with other interventions in the treatment of adults with behavioral dysphonia from the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science, and LILACS. The analyzed outcomes were the overall severity of vocal deviation, the intensity of vocal and laryngeal symptoms, and musculoskeletal pain. Data analysis was conducted based on the following steps: the assessment of the risk of bias, the measures of treatment effect and descriptive data analysis, the assessment of heterogeneity, subgroup analysis, sensitivity analysis, and the assessment of reporting biases.ResultsA total of 2135 studies were identified, three of which met the selection criteria. Data analysis showed an unclear risk of 100% of performance bias and 66% of detection bias, in addition to a 33% high risk of selection bias. Low statistical and clinical heterogeneities were found. In addition, no significant difference was found in the relative risk of improvement with laryngeal manual therapy and with other interventions in the analyzed outcomes.ConclusionsVarious types of laryngeal manual therapies are available with similar objectives and effects, but their effectiveness is equivalent to that of other interventions involving direct voice therapy in the rehabilitation of adults with behavioral dysphonia.



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Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids.

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Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids.

Int J Audiol. 2017 Aug 24;:1-8

Authors: Goehring T, Chapman JL, Bleeck S, Monaghan JJM

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Processing delay is one of the important factors that limit the development of novel algorithms for hearing devices. In this study, both normal-hearing listeners and listeners with hearing loss were tested for their tolerance of processing delay up to 50 ms using a real-time setup for own-voice and external-voice conditions based on linear processing to avoid confounding effects of time-dependent gain.
DESIGN: Participants rated their perceived subjective annoyance for each condition on a 7-point Likert scale.
STUDY SAMPLE: Twenty normal-hearing participants and twenty participants with a range of mild to moderate hearing losses.
RESULTS: Delay tolerance was significantly greater for the participants with hearing loss in two out of three voice conditions. The average slopes of annoyance ratings were negatively correlated with the degree of hearing loss across participants. A small trend of higher tolerance of delay by experienced users of hearing aids in comparison to new users was not significant.
CONCLUSION: The increased tolerance of processing delay for speech production and perception with hearing loss and reduced sensitivity to changes in delay with stronger hearing loss may be beneficial for novel algorithms for hearing devices but the setup used in this study differed from commercial hearing aids.

PMID: 28838277 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids.

Related Articles

Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids.

Int J Audiol. 2017 Aug 24;:1-8

Authors: Goehring T, Chapman JL, Bleeck S, Monaghan JJM

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Processing delay is one of the important factors that limit the development of novel algorithms for hearing devices. In this study, both normal-hearing listeners and listeners with hearing loss were tested for their tolerance of processing delay up to 50 ms using a real-time setup for own-voice and external-voice conditions based on linear processing to avoid confounding effects of time-dependent gain.
DESIGN: Participants rated their perceived subjective annoyance for each condition on a 7-point Likert scale.
STUDY SAMPLE: Twenty normal-hearing participants and twenty participants with a range of mild to moderate hearing losses.
RESULTS: Delay tolerance was significantly greater for the participants with hearing loss in two out of three voice conditions. The average slopes of annoyance ratings were negatively correlated with the degree of hearing loss across participants. A small trend of higher tolerance of delay by experienced users of hearing aids in comparison to new users was not significant.
CONCLUSION: The increased tolerance of processing delay for speech production and perception with hearing loss and reduced sensitivity to changes in delay with stronger hearing loss may be beneficial for novel algorithms for hearing devices but the setup used in this study differed from commercial hearing aids.

PMID: 28838277 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids.

Related Articles

Tolerable delay for speech production and perception: effects of hearing ability and experience with hearing aids.

Int J Audiol. 2017 Aug 24;:1-8

Authors: Goehring T, Chapman JL, Bleeck S, Monaghan JJM

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Processing delay is one of the important factors that limit the development of novel algorithms for hearing devices. In this study, both normal-hearing listeners and listeners with hearing loss were tested for their tolerance of processing delay up to 50 ms using a real-time setup for own-voice and external-voice conditions based on linear processing to avoid confounding effects of time-dependent gain.
DESIGN: Participants rated their perceived subjective annoyance for each condition on a 7-point Likert scale.
STUDY SAMPLE: Twenty normal-hearing participants and twenty participants with a range of mild to moderate hearing losses.
RESULTS: Delay tolerance was significantly greater for the participants with hearing loss in two out of three voice conditions. The average slopes of annoyance ratings were negatively correlated with the degree of hearing loss across participants. A small trend of higher tolerance of delay by experienced users of hearing aids in comparison to new users was not significant.
CONCLUSION: The increased tolerance of processing delay for speech production and perception with hearing loss and reduced sensitivity to changes in delay with stronger hearing loss may be beneficial for novel algorithms for hearing devices but the setup used in this study differed from commercial hearing aids.

PMID: 28838277 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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