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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
In this era of fake news and conspiracy theories, finding the truth is more difficult. Scientific facts are being dismissed as fabricated, and whacko therapies for illness are touted as true cures. These problems with “alternative truths” have always been with us; the snake-oil salesmen of old have made their profits. However, in the past few decades we have seen an epidemic of distrust of science, and also of serious journalism and many cherished institutions (e.g. the US Center for Disease Control). It is probably not appropriate here to launch into how these factors are enabled by ambitious politicians and amplified by social media platforms, so I will stick with the field of Audiology. Yes, we have some fake news issues.