Volume 3

Book Review

Canadian Bev Biderman’s book Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing chronicles the story of the author’s progression from hard-of-hearing to deafness and back into the hearing world after she received her cochlear implant in 1993. The book was first published in 1998 and is standard reading for anyone interested in cochlear implants. A second…

Book Review

Handbook of Acoustic Accessibility: Best practices for listening, learning, and literacy in the classroom. (2012) edited by Joseph Smaldino and Carol Flexer. Thieme Publishing: New York, ISBN# 978-1-60406-765-1. As the editor of Canadian Audiologist I receive many books that I redirect to my audiology colleagues for a book review. From time to time I find…

Book Review

Let me start with a disclaimer: this review is incredibly biased. I am a huge fan of Gael and of the generous way that she shares the personal side of living with a hearing loss. I first witnessed this at the Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto, where Gael performed her one-woman show for my “Hearing…

Volume 2

Book Review

The Adult Audiology Casebook edited by Michael Valente and L. Maureen Valente (2015) is an exceptional text book. The editors gathered 68 experts from around the world to share case reports, resulting in 71 chapters. Each chapter provides consistent sections with well-written and detailed case information on a wide variety of clinical cases. The chapters…