Volume 6
Terminology and Accessibility
This issue concentrates on an aspect of accessibility that begins with terminology. Terminology has been the bane of many professionals’ life. Misunderstandings, exclusions, unexpected inclusions, and hurt feelings can also stem from using the wrong term, or even the correct term at the wrong time. Aspects of incorrect terminology can be benign- it really doesn’t…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to issue 5 of Canadian Audiologist. This issue is packed with articles ranging from the mysteries of the hearing brain to whether songbirds are hard-wired for sound; from issues in accessibility to noise-induced hearing loss and gene therapy… certainly something for everyone. This issue’s special focus is on the research being conducted at Dalhousie…
Tinnitus and Dr. Philippe Fournier
Philippe Fournier not only has a great sounding name but he is an amazing guest editor for this issue of CanadianAudiologist.ca focusing on the elusive topic of tinnitus. I call it elusive because not all tinnitus is the same; in fact, if anything, the opposite is true – every case of tinnitus is different. For…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Clinical practice is something that gradually changes over the years of one’s professional life. The questions that we asked in the 1970s and 1980s are quite different than those that we pose today. While it is true that audiometric testing has remained constant for over 50 years, we have added a few more tests and…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Hopefully, as this issue of Canadian Audiologist is being read, the snow and ice will be gradually melting, and the days will be (finally) getting longer. And on the west coast, the cherry blossoms will soon be popping out – unfortunately the rest of Canada may have to wait a bit longer. The cover topic…
“I Am Not a Fan of Equality!”
On the surface this appears to fly in the face of mother and apple pie. But having said this, I am a fan of “equity.” The idea of treating all people the same comes with a list of requirements that include “all people require the same support.” It would be unequal to provide someone with…
Volume 5
Directions
It has long been a theorem that knowledge runs from the university to the clinic, in a seemingly unidirectional manner. This was certainly true of the beginnings of our field and still was when I was in school during the 1970s and early 1980s. But more and more, this theorem of directionality is being called…
Where Research Meets the Clinic
Welcome to this issue of Canadian Audiologist. This issue is packed with informative articles, many of which are written so clearly and are so applicable to our clients that they can simply be printed off and given to them. Pam Millett has written a wonderful piece entitled Getting students ready for “back to school.” This…
Do We Really Care Whether our Clients Have Cochlear Synaptopathy?
In the last several issues Canadian Audiologist has had articles on the topic of cochlear synaptopathy: Adam Sheppard in issue 6, 2017, Colleen LePrell in issue 2, 2018, and in this issue, Martin Pienkowski in “Science Matters,” and Alfarghal Mohamad. Neurological measures such as wave I amplitude, and the SP/AP ratio have been proposed as…
The More We Change, The More We Stay the Same
I recall doing an ABR in 1980 with a very large 4-channel machine with a lot of flashing lights (it may have had a crank on it?) but only rarely have I done an ABR or other form of evoked testing since then. My areas of interest have always been the effects of music and…