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Industry News: January 2022
1. In Memoriam: Susan Small
2. Obituary: Robert Gordon Turner
3. Obituary: Chris Stokes-Rees
4. Ida Institute announces partnership with the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association to support better hearing care locally and globally
CAA News: January 2022
1. CAA: Educating professionals and the public for an uncertain future
This editorial begins with a common clinical occurrence: “A 63-year-old woman scheduled an appointment for an audiological evaluation because she has observed hearing difficulty in noisy environments…. The audiological exam revealed normal hearing sensitivity through 4000 Hz, dropping to a mild sensorineural hearing loss at 6000-8000 Hz bilaterally. Word recognition ability was excellent bilaterally. She…
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Widex’s Craig Spencer shares their recent study results supporting a direct application of its results to real-life clinical settings in Canada and provides evidence that satisfaction levels with MOMENT™ MRR2D 440 instruments are significantly higher than existing technologies on the market.
At the rate at which new products are introduced in our industry, product naming is a constant effort for manufacturers, and it’s not as easy as you might think.
Striking the Right Balance, Janine Verge, AuD, Michael Vekasi, AuD, Sue Ehler, Shannon Phillips, Ben Kuai, and Josh Creppin, MSc, write about the use of fall risk screening tools in an Audiology practice, paying tribute to November being Fall Prevention month!
Originally published in Canadian Acoustics, we’re pleased to share the study by Brown et al examining that the prevalence of hearing loss decreased, and hearing thresholds generally improved in an occupationally noise exposed population between 1980 and 2015 in British Columbia
We’re happy to reprint Earl Harford’s 1993 Carhart Memorial Lecture: Impact of the Hearing Aid on the Evolution of Audiology
Coping skills specialist, researcher, author and speaker, and hearing aid historian Dr Neil Bauman takes a look back at the 100th anniversary of the world’s first commercial electronic hearing aid.
Fifty years ago, audiologists who heeded an inner call to help people with hearing loss through personal hands-on marketing of hearing aids were labeled as “unethical.” Thanks to our friends at Hearing Review, we’re pleased to reprint the stories of four masters degree audiologists who were among the very first to venture into dispensing hearing aids: Jim Curran, John Schuneman, Mel Sorkowitz, and Otis Whitcomb.