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On behalf of the Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) I want to welcome you to the first issue of Canadian Audiologist for 2024. I hope you all had a relaxing and restful holiday season that allowed you to spend time with family and friends, and recharge for another busy year ahead! With some time for…
Mirroring our economy in general, the hearing aid industry is gradually coming out of its COVID-related crash and we look forward to greater things in 2024. I am trying to start with a fresh mind and to get rid of some of the cobwebs from 2023. It was certainly a year of ups and downs…
Using survey data, the authors discussed how product design, most notably Signia Active, a hearing aid developed to resemble the mainstream wireless earbud, could increase acceptance and permit individuals with hearing loss to obtain the necessary and timely help they need to live rich and active lives.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955, is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century. He was also a British army officer, historian, writer, Nobel Prize winner in Literature, artist, and the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. Wayne looks at his use of a hearing aid (hearing aids, plural, were not fitted at that time).
As the transportation industry transitions into the electrification era, new sources of noise are introduced. Electric cars in operation are typically quieter than internal combustion engine vehicles and can be nearly inaudible at low speeds. However, there are new sources of noise associated with electric vehicles that can have a more significant impact, specifically electric vehicle charging stations.
The active noise cancellation technology in the AirPods Pro 2 earbuds effectively reduces ambient noise levels by an average 27 dB across frequencies.
CanadianAudiologist.ca has been granted permission to reprint this excellent article on languages that Deaf people use in the UK and how this related to deaf and Deaf identity.
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Margo Beckerman, AuD, and Devin McCaslin, PhD, write about the complicated by necessary challenge that is triaging the dizzy patient.
Musical Roads, as the name suggests, are roads that can “play” a song while you are driving on them. The first report of a musical road was in 1995 in Denmark.
Since 2001, with the introduction of Ontario’s EHDI program, the Child Amplification and the Pediatric Audiology Strategies and Systems Laboratories at the National Centre for Audiology (NCA) have been responsible for developing and implementing the protocol for the Provision of Amplification for Infants and Children within the Ontario Infant Hearing Program (IHP). This feature article describes the revised protocol, including key evidence areas that have changed pediatric amplification practices.