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Courtesy of Doug Beck and our friends at AudiologyOnline, we pleased to bring you this insightful interview with Dr. Frederick N. Martin.
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Dr. Darren Tse, founder of The Ottawa Hospital Multidisciplinary Dizziness Clinic, discusses how to diagnose, prevent, and treat ototoxicity.
Reframing the role of audiology is based on the assumption that the value of a good or service is defined by the customer. Those that produce the good or service are more successful when they have a clear understanding of these customer specifications and tailor the features of their product to match. If a gap exists between what customers identify as valuable and what is readily available, it presents an opportunity for those that produce the good or service to close that gap by modernizing what they produce. This is an ongoing challenge for audiologists, since what customers want and value often changes regularly over time.
The speech intelligibility benefits of directional microphones in hearing aids have been well documented. There is little disagreement that hearing aid directionality can be beneficial for hearing aid users in noisy situations in which a user’s goal is to understand speech. The author’s outline how, by automatically adapting, hearing aids can help maintain speech intelligibility as the acoustic environment changes.
Frank Musiek’s article strings together a commentary of his thoughts about recruitment and its impact or perhaps, lack of impact on modern-day audiology. He also considers that perhaps what we have known as recruitment for many years, may actually be “brain gain” in the area of modern neuroscience.
What would audiology be like if audiologists would have never been granted the right to sell hearing aids? Although it’s impossible to go back in time, this question can still be partly answered by what could be called a case-control study. Indeed, there exist one province in Canada—Québec—where audiologists are not allowed to sell hearing aids.
Marshall Chasin recently caught up with Wallace Sabine at a séance on a dark and stormy night for a “virtual” conversation about reverberation time.
It is well known that occupational hearing loss is the result of long exposure to high levels of noise. When asked about how long is “long exposure,” the answer frequently is given as: “40 years of exposure, 8 hours a day, and 40 hours a week.” And, to the question of how high a potentially damaging level is, the magic number is 85 dBA.
Robert Traynor takes an interesting look at the evolution of headphones.
Gael Hannan wonders if we will actually see, in the not-so-far-off future, the introduction of an effective Canadians with Disabilities Act (CDA).