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From time to time, CanadianAudiologist.ca dedicates a special issue to someone in our field who has devoted their life to research that betters the lives of hard-of-hearing people. But for this, we thought we would take a page out of Frank Capra’s 1942 movie with Jimmy Stewart called It’s a Wonderful Life. In this movie,…
Overcoming resistance to wearing hearing aids represents a significant challenge in audiology, stemming from practical concerns about device cost, handling, and aesthetics and deeply rooted in psychological factors.
Self-determination theory (SDT) is a theory of motivation built on a set of assumptions about the nature of people and about the factors that give rise to action. Subsequent research continues to support the value of using the SDT framework to understand hearing rehabilitation behaviours involving hearing aids.
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Erica Zaia, MSc, RAUD, provides an overview of Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD), hoping to help clinicians identify and treat this disabling vestibular disorder.
Our Associate Editor, Dr. Steve Aiken, recently sat down with Dr. Stephane Maison about a recent study showing evidence for cochlear nerve degeneration in people with tinnitus, but normal hearing thresholds.
Audiologists frequently receive complaints from older adults with hearing loss about their difficulty understanding speech in noise (SIN). As the brain ages, there are changes to its structure and function that could impede a listener’s ability to separate speech features from background noise. What are these changes, and how does this knowledge inform audiological practice?
Successful approaches for preserving harmonics in music programs can retain the same overall sound of music for people who are hard of hearing.
Age adjustment is intended to represent the typical longitudinal hearing changes associated with age. In the US, age adjustments are not recommended by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) or permitted by the Department of Defense. They are optional for workers within the scope of the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) (i.e., general industry) and other regulatory bodies.
It is always exciting news when a novel treatment for tinnitus makes it to market. Indeed, patients suffering from tinnitus often feel they do not have many options to improve their quality of life. “You have to live with it” is still “advice” given to them when they receive the diagnosis of tinnitus.
Unilateral, SNHL, otherwise known as single-sided deafness, is estimated to occur in 2 – 5 per 1,000 school-age children and 0.11–0.14% of all adults. Those affected have a loss of hearing acuity on the affected side and impaired binaural hearing which negatively impacts sound source localization, understanding speech in noise (SIN) and overall quality of life (QoL).