Amptify (formerly clEAR) was founded in 2015 by an aural rehabilitation research team as a university spinoff from the Audiovisual Speech Perception Laboratory led by Professor Nancy Tye-Murray at the Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), research in this university lab began to develop products for individuals with hearing loss that improve their ability to communicate along with their social, psychological, and physical sense of well-being.

Amptify represents the culmination of decades of NIH-sponsored research. Amptify is described as an “evidence-based hearing healthcare program that uses a proprietary digital toolkit to provide ongoing and personalized hearing rehabilitation from our world-class specialists to your diverse population.”

Their founding product, Customized Learning Exercises for Aural Rehabilitation, Inc, (clEAR) provides customized hearing healthcare to people who have hearing loss. clEAR provides audiologists with a new clinical tool that allows them to provide effective and engaging auditory training for the 35 million Americans suffering hearing loss, teaching patients to recognize speech and exercise their cognitive auditory skills. With clEAR, audiologists can easily monitor progress and customize training to a patient’s particular listening needs in a manner that is efficient and cost-effective.