Investigating CAPD in Individuals with Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Kim Tillery is back in this issue with a look at “Investigating CAPD in Individuals with Nonverbal Learning Disorder.”
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What You SHOULD Say to People Who Have Hearing Loss
Advocates are often posting articles about what NOT to say to deaf people. In this instalment of “The Way I Hear It,” Gael Hannan tells us what we SHOULD say.
Other People’s Ideas
After a colleague’s recent comments about how loud it was at a recent Blue Jays’ playoff game, Calvin Staples started thinking about patients with NIHL and the shape of the NIHL audiogram. Calvin found some interesting related blogs on the topic over at our friends at HearingHealthMatters.org.
The Patient’s Role in Developing a Treatment Plan
In this installment of The Wired Audiologist, Peter explains how engaging the patient as part of the treatment planning process is critical to the success of the plan.
A Hissy Fit about Noise-induced Hearing Loss
Originally posted at HHTM On October 18, 2011. Reprinted with permission. Standing in the line-up of Tim Horton’s, Canada’s coffee-shop shrine, I heard the music leaking from the earbuds of the teenager behind me. And if I heard it with my severe hearing loss, it must have been really loud. I grumbled to myself, and not only because the noise was irritatingly…
Beethoven’s Hearing Loss… Was It Genetic?
Originally posted at HHTM On April 21, 2015. Reprinted with permission. Since the inception of the Hearing International blog, we have visited the topic of Beethoven’s hearing loss a number of times. First it was to outline the artist and his career, then to discuss his hearing impairment and theories on the specifics of the disorder that could have caused his hearing…
Dangers of Hearing Loss from Earbud Use Highlighted on National TV
Originally posted at HHTM On September 24, 2015. Reprinted with permission. NEW YORK — NBC’s Today Show, a staple of morning television for more than 60 years, recently featured a segment on the increase in noise-induced hearing loss among children and young adults using earbuds. The segment mentioned a February, 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) warning that more than 1.1 billion teens and…
Phase 3 Drug Study for Noise induced Hearing Loss Cure
Originally posted at HHTM On September 29, 2015. Reprinted with permission. Two and a half years ago Hearing International discussed various homeopathic medicine treatments for In Part V of this discussion, we referenced theimpressive a research headed by Dr. Kathleen Campbell, audiologist and researcher at Southern Illinois University. A prolific researcher, whose team at Southern Illinois University has discovered that antioxidants can…
NIHL- Age Corrections – Part 3
Originally posted at HHTM On October 20, 2015. Reprinted with permission. In many state or provincial worker’s compensation boards there is a “correction factor” that may be applied to a calculated noise induced hearing loss. In many cases, this is a “presbycusic” correction and may amount to subtracting 0.5 dB off of the calculated average hearing loss…
NIHL-Shape of the Audiogram – Part 2
Originally posted at HHTM On October 13, 2015. Reprinted with permission. The “shape” or configuration of the sensori-neural hearing loss, at least in worker’s compensation board claims for noise exposure, is one of the base elements for deciding whether a hearing loss is indeed a noise induced hearing loss. Yet, not all audiograms of workers exposed to…