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This is my first President’s Message. It is indeed a great honour to have been elected as president of the Canadian Academy of Audiology. Thank you for the trust and confidence the members of the association and the Board of Directors have shown in me. Ever the optimist, over my tenure, I will endeavour to…
Version française disponible ci-dessous Canadian Audiologist is now one year old! I would love to be able to sing Happy Birthday, but despite my own personal interest in music and how hearing aids can better process music, I cannot carry a tune. If I am lucky, I may be able to find the key by…
This fall, CAA held a contest for Canadian audiology students entitled Why Audiology? Students were asked to develop a project to promote audiology to other students, professionals, or members of the public who might benefit from knowing more about what audiologists do. The winning entry was submitted by Sebastien Pilon and Kathryn Toner, both first-year…
Tabitha Parent-Buck interviews James Jerger and explores his remarkable career and life-long passion for research in diagnostic audiology.
David Clinkard and Jason Leblanc give us a brief history of the cochlear implant and how severe hearing impairment that is not adequately treated with properly fitted hearing aids can now be addressed surgically.
Jason Galster explores the rapidly changing pace of technology development in modern hearing aids and the challenge of maintaining deep knowledge of various technological implementations.
The goal of this research was to investigate a new method of converting between audiograms and speech perception measures to demonstrate their equivalence or otherwise with a goal of increasing the understanding of the connection between speech perception performance and hearing loss.
The incidence of hearing impairment among children rose by 15% between 2001 and 2011, according to a study published last week in Pediatrics, an online publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The article, “Changing Trends of Childhood Disability,” reported an overall increase of 15.6% in childhood disabilities of all types over that period of time. For…
School is about to start for a lot of kids. Kids and parents are excited. New clothes, new books, new backpacks. What can we do to make this easier for children with hearing loss as the new year starts? Preparing the Children If possible, children with hearing loss should have the opportunity to go into…
Parents and others who work with children with hearing loss feel the need to advocate for the children. However, the most important part of advocacy is learning to advocate for oneself. When children rely on others to advocate for them, they do not feel powerful. But when they are capable of advocating for themselves they…