Nov 18, 2021
Dr. Katherine Sternasty is a Research Audiologist at Bose Corporation. She is working on an upcoming cloud-based system that can collect data and perform studies on hearing technology. During her time at Northwestern University, she helped develop an app titled hearScreen USA. During her doctorate studies, she focused on easing access to hearing aid and lowering barriers to entry.
In this episode…
Hearing aids, along with other audiological treatment, are typically seen as either unimportant or stigmatized. While hearing is an essential part of day-to-day life, people are reluctant to get the treatment they need. There’s a long list of barriers to entry that keeps people from hearing as they should. Among these are financial, social, and personal reasons, but are there more?
Dr. Katherine Sternasty has done much of her work and research on the accessibility of hearing aids. She has come up against the same barriers time and time again and has studied how to circumvent them. Now, she offers her perspective and findings with you.
In this episode of the ListenUp! Podcast, Dr. Mark Syms interviews Dr. Katherine Sternasty, a Research Audiologist at Bose, to learn about the current barriers to entry for hearing aids. They discuss how the concerns go deeper than money, how the locus of control changes people’s perception, and the stigmas that exist around hearing aids. The two also talk about Dr. Sternasty’s research and what she found.