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Originally posted at HHTM On August 4, 2015. Reprinted with permission. Kanye West was the main performer at the Pan American games that were just completed in Toronto, Canada. (Actually I think that they should be called the Pan Canadian games…). It was the most successful of games ever with the largest number of athletes of any…
I enjoyed your editorial on the problems with definitions in the last issue of Canadian Audiologist. As you point out, the definition of sound has traditionally included three components: a vibrating source, a medium and a receiver (i.e., someone hearing the sound). I also tend to think that the receiver requirement is problematic. If a…
In this issue, we are proud to present two Student Poster Presentations from the 2014 CAA Conference. In this issue we give you, Kayla Danino’s “Concussions and Permanent Hearing Loss,” and Brendan MacDonald’s “ECoG as a Monitoring Tool for Meniere’s Disease.”
In this Siemens-sponsored advertorial we learn about Since the inception of directional processing in hearing aids, Siemens has been at the forefront of development and research.
Located 35 km north of Copenhagen – and 50 km away from Oticon’s headquarters – you find Eriksholm Research Centre. Bo Westergard speaks with Uwe Hermann, the senior director of Eriksholm Research Centre, about how their researchers make audiological discoveries with the potential to provide significant end-user benefits in future hearing care.
In our second submission from our new friends Down Under, we learn more about HEARsmart, led by the HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), and how they are making more people aware of dangerous leisure noise exposure and the actions that can be taken to avoid it.
In a wonderful submission from Elizabeth Beach and Jane Sewell, we learn about how the new Australian HEARsmart program targets unhealthy listening habits.
Our wonderful columnist Gael Hannan has a new book called The Way I Hear It. Read all about it in this issue.
As we learn more about the mechanisms of cochlear cell death, we will have the opportunity to intervene and prevent NIHL. The future will be exciting for audiology as we potentially become involved in administering antioxidant therapies in advance of noise exposure or preventing the cascade of events that lead to ROS formulation, cochlear cell death, and NIHL post exposure.
Western University’s Steve Jones gives us some wonderful insight on becoming more sensitive to the needs of patients and clients in “Toward LGBTQIA+ Cultural Competence.”