Hooray for the Hearing Loss Nuts!
Gael Hannan looks at other people’s response to here enthusiastic advocacy for hearing loss issues.
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Readers’ Choice 2013: Whisper Test of Hearing
It is Amazing What One Can Find About Hearing Aids when Looking for Something Else In her recent post on the HHTM blog, Gael Hannan commented on the “whisper game” that hearing-impaired individuals are not particularly good at, and provided an accurate and entertaining commentary as to why this is. She reported that some family…
Big Brother Lives in New Orleans
In their last series of meetings before this most recent municipal election, he New Orleans City Council and Mayor Mitch Landrieu had called for legislation that would in effect decree that no toilets can be flushed in New Orleans; no telephones can be used; no conversations can be held where there are more than four…
Football and Hearing Issues Came Together for the Super Bowl
There were a lot of hearing angles to the 2014 Super Bowl, played last Sunday in New Jersey. For one thing, there was the Seattle Seahawks’ much heralded (and much criticized) “12th Man,” as the team’s incredibly noisy legion of fans came to be known. As noted by ASHA’s Joe Cerquone on the Hearing Views…
Other People’s Ideas
With inspiration from the Superbowl Calvin Staples selects some great blog entries focused on all things related to sound.
Managing Adults with Significantly Disabling Hearing Loss
Peter Stelmacovich discusses the challenges in the management of adults with significantly disabling hearing loss.
Message from the President
Version française disponible ci-dessous Hello again from the west coast. I would like to take this opportunity to talk a bit about sharing your professional skills and knowledge with students. I have been a clinical educator for the majority of my career as an audiologist and have learned a great deal from the students I…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Version française disponible ci-dessous Recently the FDA in the United States had another call for submissions regarding changing the rules for Personal Sound Amplification Products or PSAPs. Since February 2009 it was legal to sell them in the United States as long as they were marketed as not being for someone with hearing loss. The…
Hearing Aid Advertising
Wayne Staab explores the themes and effectiveness of hearing aid advertising.
Trivia: History of Hearing Testing
At the 2013 Audiology Now meeting in Anaheim, a group of us (Robert Margolis, Charles Berlin, Jay Hall III, and myself, were invited to give a presentation on topics related to the History of Audiology (hearing testing, hearing aids, and vestibular testing). That which follows takes on the format of questions, utilizing materials from the…