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It is almost as if music has something in common with everything – psychology, physiology, acoustics, engineering, most areas of the arts, and now the lowly spondee. Recently I have been reading a book on combinatorial mathematics (don’t panic – the book is written for the lay audience and not meant to conjure up memories…
Modern hearing aid technology has the capability to be responsive to varying levels of inputs. A hearing aid will generate significant amplification for soft level inputs, less amplification for medium level inputs, and sometimes no amplification for louder level inputs. Many people simply do not need a lot of hearing aid amplification for the louder…
For this issue, Calvin Staples’ selects some of the best music-themed blogs from HearingHealthMatters.org.
Neil Hockley et al., write that while concentrating clinical efforts on the perception of speech in many different environments, hearing healthcare providers may sometimes overlook other signals, such as music, that may be very meaningful to the patient.
Wayne Staab tells us why hearing may be the most influential sense of them all.
Peter Stelmacovich discusses the importance of playing a musical instrument for people with hearing loss.
Harry Teder returns to give us the inside story on Adaptive Compression.
Guest columnists Claude Alain and Benjamin Rich Zendel review studies that have investigated the role of musical training as a mean to mitigate age-related decline in difficulties understanding speech in noise.
Alberto Behar explains why sound levels are expressed, most of the time, in dBA, sometimes in dBC, and never in dBB.
Gael Hannan shares her dream of being able hear, understand, and enjoy music the way the hearing people do.