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Adverse Health Effects of Industrial Wind Turbine Noise: How the Ear and Brain Process Infrasound

This article, the final of three installments, discusses the relationship between various health effects and our current understanding of the processing of infrasound by the ear and brain.[1] As noted in the second installment of this series, Dr. Geoff Leventhall, a co-author of the 2009 AWEA/CanWEA report, attributes the health complaints of people who live…

Etymotic mc3 Headphones Review

Feb. 13, 2015 Dear Editor of Canadian Audiologist, I write this letter to you after having started to listen on a new pair of Etymotic mc3 headphones. I got a pair recently as a gift from one of our software development partners and I thought “hey these are interesting and unusual.” For years I have…

The Quick and Dirty on Hyperacusis

Glynnis Tidball give us The Quick and Dirty on Hyperacusis and tells us how we can help our clients to understand their reaction to sound and, with the right tools, help them to increase sound tolerance and enjoy the world of sound again.

Getting a Little Batty for Audiology

Marshall Chasin has all the (audiology) answers on how to evade a bat’s echolocation signal and come up with a survival strategy.

Evaluating Central Auditory Processing: The (Sound) Wave of the Future?

In this issue’s Science Matters, Kasey Jaikien and Frederick Gallun suggest that if even when the audiogram is normal that it may be worthwhile to investigate a potential central auditory processing (CAP) deficit.

The New CSA Z94.2 Standard: Hearing Protection Devices — Performance, Selection, Care, and Use is Now Published

After 12 years there is now a new version of CSA Standard Z94.2 “Hearing protection devices Performance, Selection, Care, and Use.” Alberto Behar and Tim Kelsall bring us the highlights.

CAPD Current Resources

In this issue’s From the Centre Out, Kim Tillery fills us in on some of the excellent CAPD current resources available.

The Hearing Aids of Yesteryear

Dr. Neil Bauman breaks out the audiology time machine and takes us on a fascinating look at the “Hearing Aids of Yesteryear.”

Energy Harvesting and Hearing Aids

Wayne Staab explores the possibility to overcoming hearing aid power disadvantages by extracting (harvesting) energy from either the human or the environment involved.

Other People’s Ideas

Via the fine blogs at HearingHealthMatters.org, Calvin Staples discovers just how much larger and even more is fascinating audiology really is.