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Heading Back to the Grindstone

Audiology is a relatively new profession, seeing its growth after WWII. And like any new profession there are both downsides and upsides- the limits of what we do, and can do are not written in stone, but alas, recognition and statutory recognition and protection of our roles and responsibilities are underdeveloped. I recall when I…

Industry Research: A Canadian Evaluation of Real-Life Satisfaction of Hearing Aids with Direct Connectivity

Kalef and colleagues share their recent research where they aim replicate and thus further validate the evidence from the 2016 study (A Canadian Evaluation of Real-Life Satisfaction of Hearing Aids in Challenging Environments) and to provide empirical evidence of the efficacy of direct connectivity to iPhones in hearing aids.

How Loud Should You Mix?

Cranking up the music volume is fun. It gets you pumped. But if you do it while you’re mixing in the studio, you’re shortchanging yourself. The good people at Sweetwater give us several reasons why you should turn it down when mixing.

How Do You Expect Me to Understand You If…

The always insightful Gael Hannan gives us some expert tips on what good communication looks like for people with hearing loss.

Striking the Right Balance: The Importance of Screening for Vestibular Impairment in Children

Pediatric audiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado Joshua Huppert give us an excellent review of the vestibular system and and explores the prevalence of vestibular disorders in children.

Science Matters: Evaluating Masked Speech Perception in Children: Moving Towards Clinical Tools that Provide Information about Children’s Functional Hearing Skills

Miller and Leibold explore why conventional clinical tools do not fully capture children’s functional hearing abilities and what’s being done to help overcome this issue.

Overview of the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences

State-of-the-art teaching labs, research, and study areas create an ideal learning space for The School of Audiology and Speech Sciences (SASS) in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, the only program in British Columbia that educates speech-language pathologists and audiologists.

Hearing Aids and the 3 PM Crash

Many of Marshall Chasin’s patients comment that around 3 PM they hit the wall and need a nap and he wonders why this is rarely ever mentioned or discussed relative to the audiology clinic.

Hidden Hearing Loss and Other Neat Stuff

I think that one of the most frustrating things that can happen in the clinic is to have a client with complaints of not being able to hear well in noise as their friends, only to find a normal audiogram. In the 1980s and 1990s, I would just look at them at tell them that…

World Health Organization’s Guidelines on Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE)

Kelly Tremblay gives us an interesting look at her time sitting at a table in Geneva last year to help craft the World Health Organization’s Guidelines on Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE).