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title: "Defining a New Category of Hearing Aids: Learning Hearing Aids and the Software-based Approach"
description: "ADA offers programming and support to audiologists and students who are or who desire to be autonomous practitioners in the field of Audiology."
url: "https://www.audiologist.org/resources/educate/audacity-archive/item/defining-a-new-category-of-hearing-aids-learning-hearing-aids-and-the-software-based-approach"
date: "2026-06-26T21:37:31+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Defining a New Category of Hearing Aids: Learning Hearing Aids and the Software-based Approach

**Presentation Date:** 27 October 2021

**Duration:** 1:24:50

**Return to:** [AuDacity Archive](https://www.audiologist.org/audacity-archive)

This session will address why hearing care needs this new category of learning hearing aids, what the learning cycle is, how a learning hearing aid transforms the way we think about hearing care, and how it can be integrated into your practice.

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**Speakers:** Jim Kothe; Mike Lowery; Ram Nileshwar, Au.D.

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