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Industry News: May 2023
1. CAA May Hearing Month Campaign
2. Beltone North America: Rob Boucher and David Molella
3. Say What Club Convention 2023
4. Acoustics Week in Canada 2023
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Sitting Here, Deaf
Gael shares a poem inspired by three interminable hours spent waiting while her hearing aids were ‘being looked at’ by technicians at the manufacturer’s offices.
Supporting Students Transitioning to Postsecondary Education: Advice from an Assistive Technologist
Pam Millett shares her conversation with Angela Harrison, the Assistive Technologist Consultant at the Student Accessibility Services Office at McMaster University in Hamilton, to chat about her experiences in supporting deaf and hard-of-hearing students who require assistive technology.
Is The Inter-Aural Attenuation By Bone Conduction Actually 0 dB?
Bill Hodgetts answers one of the most common questions he gets from audiologists “how can you fit bilateral bone conduction devices when the inter-aural attenuation by bone conduction is 0 dB?” And, “won’t there be confusion as the two signals compete at the cochlear level?
Views of Aging: Positive Beliefs and Attitudes Matter for Hearing and Other Health Issues
One of the most perplexing epidemiological statistics for audiologist is that only about 1 in 5 people with audiometric hearing loss who might benefit from amplification use hearing aids. How can audiologists improve hearing care for older adults?
CAA News
CAA May Hearing Month Campaign In recognition of May Hearing Month CAA is proud to offer this 4-part campaign to download, print, share and post for public and professional education. Accessibility for In-Person Meetings by Dr. Janine Verge and Her Team Booklet Posters Video Please click links for updated campaigns on: Events and Announcements
Industry News
CAA May Hearing Month Campaign In recognition of May Hearing Month CAA is proud to offer this 4-part campaign to download, print, share and post for public and professional education. Accessibility for In-Person Meetings by Dr. Janine Verge and Her Team Booklet Posters Video Please click links for updated campaigns on: Beltone North America: Rob…
Hearing Better Can Help You Think Better
The February 2023 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society had a must-read article. It is only 4 pages long but serves to re-orient our perspective when it comes to a link between cognitive decline and hearing loss. The article is called “It is time to change our message about hearing loss and…
Public Concern and Measurements of Noise in the City
This article on historical facts in acoustics, centered on the subject of noise and health, is the final in the series that began with the article of the first anti-noise groups in 1895 and the first international anti-noise convention of 1908, and goes up to 1950 when the first urban zoning ordinances were published which established noise limits with numerical values in decibels.