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Audiologist Roy Christiansen testifies on need to modernize Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Summary
Roy Christiansen, a 33-year private-practice audiologist, told the Nebraska Legislature Health and Human Services Committee that the Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing needs modernization to embrace smartphone-based technologies; the committee held a confirmation hearing but recorded no vote.
Roy Christiansen, a private-practice audiologist in Lincoln and nominee to the Nebraska Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, testified Wednesday before the Nebraska Legislature Health and Human Services Committee that the commission is “in serious need of modernization.”
The comments came at a confirmation hearing before the committee chaired by Sen. Brian Martin. Christiansen said advances in consumer technology — especially smartphone apps and modern hearing-device features — have largely replaced…
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