Dr. Bauman is an engineer-audiologist with more than 40 years in hearing care and degrees from Columbia University. He specializes in tinnitus, hyperacusis and misophonia, and he is credited with inventing the receiver-in-the-canal (RITE) hearing aid.
About Dr. Bauman
Dr. Natan Bauman has committed his 40+ year professional life to helping people across a broad range of auditory related conditions.
Previously Dr. Bauman was Director of the Yale Hearing, Speech and Language Clinic and founder of the Hearing, Balance and Speech Center (HBS), where he successfully helped people in Connecticut to hear better for over 40 years.
As an engineer and audiologist, Dr. Bauman is one of the most respected and influential doctors of audiology in the world, having changed the course of the hearing aid industry by inventing the Receiver-In-The-Canal, the most widely used hearing aid in the world.
Beyond hearing, Dr. Bauman has wide-ranging expertise across auditory disorders. He founded the internationally known New England Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Clinic and the national organization Tinnitus Practitioners Association (TPA), an association of practitioners dedicated to treating patients suffering from tinnitus and various forms of sound sensitivity disorders such as Hyperacusis, Phonophobia, TTTS, Acoustic Shock, Disembarkment Syndrome, and Misophonia. In this role, he developed a novel, specialized treatment program called Cognitive Habituation Tinnitus Therapy (CHaTT) which he teaches worldwide to professionals through the TPA.
How Dr. Bauman can help
- Tinnitus
- Hyperacusis
- Misophonia
- Hearing Aids
Education & Certifications
- Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Audiology Teachers College, Columbia University
- Master of Science (M.S.) in Audiology Teachers College, Columbia University
- Master of Science in Electroacoustics Wroclaw Polytechnic Institute, Poland
- Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC-A) American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Fellow (F-AAA) American Academy of Audiology