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An understanding of vestibular structures in the inner ear and their function is unquestionably beneficial when you are engaged in vestibular practice but these mechanics are also notoriously difficult to grasp. This is an article for anyone who has ever grappled with this challenge.
With apologies to Buzz Lightyear, Marshall’s column sees us, “Going Beyond the Phoneme…to the Word and Beyond!”
Bob’s column for this issue discusses knowledge translation in relation to clinical hearing tests.
Wayne provides an historical archive to the application of hearing aids with his column “Auriculostomy – First Surgical Hearing Aid Approach.”
Gael Hannan question attitudes towards hearing loss with her poem, Does It Matter?
In 1965, Harford and Barry were credited for the first accessible published description of across-head fitting. However, Wullstein and Wigand had published results on an almost identical across-head arrangement three-years earlier. Were these the first CROS hearing aids?
So, next time you hear the word impedance, and your eyes start to glaze over, don’t panic! substitute “equivalent volume” and note that it is larger for lower frequencies and smaller for higher frequencies.
Mike Valente is one of the rare audiologists to accomplish an audiology “hat trick” He’s improved hearing and communication for people with hearing loss through teaching, research, and clinical service.
There is picture of Mike next to the word mentor in the dictionary…or at least there should be. When you are an early graduate student, you don’t understand the importance of a mentor until you have a great one and for some students they had the best, Mike Valente.
Faced with a pressing issue, in need of some quick advice, and with her go-to mentor out of the country, AU Bankaitis cold-called Dr. Valente. She looks back on where that cold call took them as friends and colleagues.