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Canadian Audiologist’s own Michael Vekasi (co-cordinator of “Striking the Right Balance”) shares his experiences at the recent World Congress of Audiology in Vancouver.
Although hearing aid technology has improved dramatically, some problems persist and hard to predict leading to poor hearing aid acceptance. Samira Anderson’s hypothesis is that the lack of hearing aid acceptance may be due in part to age- and hearing-related changes in the central processing of sound in the auditory nerve, brainstem, or cortex that affect the neural representation of the speech signal.
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” two audiology students interview two private practice physiotherapists in an effort to learn more about including vestibular rehabilitation in audiology practice and how the two professions overlap when managing vestibular patients.
Of the 10 million individuals with hearing loss living in the United States many have developed noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) from exposure to occupational noise. This paper by Monika Sharma and colleagues looks at one specific occupation at risk for NIHL, the field of dentistry.
In this article, Mickel Paris and his colleagues write about their study to determine if an information literacy training session on evidence-based information gathering will increase four specific student measures.
For Wideband Tympanometry Measurements (WBT) to be more widely implemented in clinical settings, normative data that are collected from specific clinical populations are needed. The primary goal of this study is to establish WBT normative data for the population served at University of the Pacific Hearing and Balance Center in San Francisco, US.
In recognition of his many accomplishments and recent passing, we’re reprinting an interview with audiology pioneer Earl Harford.
To help people who are just getting started using the video head impulse test (vHIT), Carolyn Falls’ article introduces the fundamentals of the test and tries to smooth out the learning curve.
Marshall Chasin explains that if you’re using Google Translate during your basic audiology assessment, you have to remember that translations may not be entirely accurate.
Do you know how loud ballons can be? If you don’t know the answer, this article by Bill Hodgetts and Dylan Scott may surprise you.