Tinnitus Booth at Folklife
This past weekend at The NW Folklife Festival we received a lot of questions at our booth about Tinnitus, or as some people put it “ringing in your ears.” It is estimated that 50 million American’s experience Tinnitus each year. When Tinnitus occurs, you are preceiving sounds, although no external sounds exist. The exact physiological cause…
Advance for Audiologists
ESHC was featured this week in Advance for Audiologists. The online magazine highlights our achievements over the past month and the work we accomplished during Better Hearing and Speech Month. To read the full article and see photos from the month visit Advance’s website.
Floortime Model
Maryam Sadrzadeh, Jennifer Arenz and Kate Pilant participated in an online course on the mastery of the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship (DIR)/floortime model from Stanley Greenspan. This treatment approach is used on children with a variety of developmental delays and Autism. The model covered… Functional developmental stages Individual differences in auditory processing and language, visual-spatial processing,…
Folklife Festival Success
This weekend eight of our staff members headed to the Seattle Center Vera Stage to hand out earplugs and goodies in celebration of Better Hearing and Speech Month. Throughout breaks in music the stage announced information about hearing health and informed listeners that they could protect their hearing by picking up earplugs at the door….
Northwest Folklife Festival
Join us all weekend long at the Northwest Folklife Festival! We’ve been invited to help increase awareness of Noise Induced Hearing Loss by passing out earplugs at the Alki Court Stage in the Vera Teen Center for the four-day festival. In between acts, the festival will present facts on NIHL and tips on how to…
Local Foundation Talks Global
This morning our staff was honored to have Paige Stringer, founder of The Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss, speak about her life growing up with a severe hearing loss and how life’s journey has led her to starting a global foundation aimed at helping those in need. The talk was inspiring and brought…
Electronic Media’s Effects on Speech and Hearing
Research shows that when media use isn’t regulated, children can miss out on important social interactions, which may lead to delays in language development, attention and learning problems, and noise-induced hearing loss. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF): two-thirds of infants and toddlers watch a screen an average of 2 hours a day kids…
Speech Screening at The Discovery Center
Speech Program Director Maryam Sadrzadeh took time out of the day today to offer free speech screenings to The Discovery Center in Redmond today. The school had 11 kiddos that took part in the screening. Our speech staff has thoroughly enjoyed going out into the community and offering their services during Better Hearing and Speech Month.
Lunch and Learn a Success
Today we held our first Lunch and Learn for patients and the community at our Bellevue office location. Dr. Terry Limb, audiology assistant Laura Best and Oticon representative Ashley Al-Izzi presented on different elements of the hearing program and new technology. Guests were also treated to a box lunch and swag bag as they left…
BHSM New Technology Event
Join us next week for a special three-day event featuring the newest hearing instrument technology. Oticon will feature their new hearing instrument, Agil during the event. If you’re interested in learning more about the high end technology, please call 425-899-5050 to reserve your spot! The clinic is also offering a special “Lunch and Learn” event…