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To The Brain and Back: Measuring The Brain’s Response to Continuous, Natural Speech

For decades, audiological practice and auditory neuroscience has benefitted from using electroencephalography (EEG) to measure brain responses evoked by speech sounds. Speech-evoked EEG responses show how hearing loss affects speech processing, how hearing aids provide speech perception benefits, and how the auditory system develops.

Spoken language vs Sign Language: Are We Stuck In This Binary?

It is generally agreed upon in the literature that when children who are deaf or hard of hearing (with no additional “disabilities”) receive high quality language access early, preferably by six months of age, they can achieve language outcomes commensurate with their typically hearing peers before five years of age.

The Risks of Explaining Hearing Loss as a Potentially Modifiable Risk Factor for Dementia –Summer 2024 Update on New Global and Canadian Population Attributable Fractions (PAFs)

This update on publications concerning population-attributable fractions (PAFs) for potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia focuses on hearing loss and new analyses using global and Canadian data.

Sound Business Sense

CanadianAudiologist.ca is honoured to welcome Dr. Bob Traynor to our family with his new column called Sound Business Sense on important business issues that affects the audiology community. Because this is Bob’s inaugural column, we have decided to run this important addition as both an article and as a column in this issue.

The 21st Century Has Taught Us a Great Deal About Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

In 2006, Eric and his co-authors wrote a review paper “The role of oxidative stress in noise-induced hearing loss” Reflecting back on that article, Eric reflects about how much has changed in the area of NIHL, but also how much of what was know in the early part of the century is still relevant today.

Industry News

September 2024

1. Tribute: Dr. James Jerger
2. Tribute: Charles Berlin

CAA News

September 2024

1. CAA Conference: Registration Open
2. Veterans Affairs Canada (Vac) Canadian Armed Forces (Caf) Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Rcmp) Audio Services Update
3. Webinar: Audiological considerations and speech perception outcomes for children and adults living with Down syndrome
4. Webinar Title: Opportunities and challenges for assistive listening with Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast
5. SAVE THE DATE – Webinar: Update on Infant Hearing Health Services in Canada: 2024 Report Card

Quick Answers

Measuring bone conduction hearing thresholds in-situ with the device and connection that the user is wearing is critical for several key reasons, particularly when it comes to the prescription of amplification targets and ensuring that the hearing aid is properly calibrated to meet the user’s specific needs.

Why Isn’t Audiology a Standard Part of Routine Healthcare?

As summer winds down and September approaches, families and students prepare for the back-to-school season. This often includes a checklist of health care appointments, like visits to the dentist, orthodontist, and optometrist. However, audiology rarely makes the list. Despite its importance, hearing health care is often overlooked during routine check-ups.

What Your Clients Hate to Hear!

Living with hearing loss is like drinking from a bottomless bowl of emotional soup. It’s a constant loop of mis-hears, repeats, and corrections, keeping our emotions in play. And we don’t do one emotion at a time! Hearing loss is more complicated than that; emotions stay close to the surface, ready to erupt.