Have We Made Any Progress on Classroom Noise Levels?
It seems as though educational audiologists have been talking about noise levels in classrooms for decades, but have we made any progress in reducing them?
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Tinnitus Does Not Rule Me!
Gale Hannan gives us some insight into how she deals with tinnitus.
Book Review
HEAR & BEYOND: Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss Eberts, S, Hannan, G (2022). Page Two. ISBN 978-1-77458-160-5 (paperback)ISBN 978-1-77458-161-2 (eBook) Reviewed by Rex Banks, AuD, Reg. CASLPO Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan are arguably two of the most familiar faces in hearing health consumer advocacy on the planet. For years, I have been following both,…
Industry News
Congratulations On Your Retirement, Alberto Behar! Alberto Behar has been a long-time columnist with CanadianAudiologist, and the Canadian Hearing Report with Noisy Notes. Now that he is over 90, he has decided to slow down a bit, and his last column appears in issue #1, Vol. 9 of CanadianAudiologist.ca. On behalf of the editorial committee,…
CAA News
The CAA Vestibular Powerpoint To Educate Family Doctors and Others Is Now Available CAA members can click on the link below to access this new resource. https://canadianaudiology.ca/professional-resources/marketing-resources/ Four New CAA Vlogs Are Now Available! In Deep: Probe Tube Insertion (with CARL) Clayton uses audiology simulator, CARL, to go over the “ins and outs” of proper probe…
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
In 2020, Saunders and her colleagues published a really neat report in Ear and Hearing, with a rather lengthy title “Electronic health records as a platform for audiological research: data validity, patient characteristics and hearing-aid use persistence among 731,213 US Veterans.”1 They were interested in developing a novel research technique by which the follow-up behaviours…
Signia Active: The Beginning of An Era of Hearing Without Stigma
The acoustic amplification of sounds by hearing aids is the most common corrective strategy for the management of hearing loss, with satisfaction rates among users surpassing 80%. Despite their efficacy, only one third of candidates for hearing aids will purchase and use them.
Labeling COVID-19’s Long Term Effects—What’s the Diagnosis?
This article addresses and defines the language associated with COVID-19 and reports on the attempts being made to establish appropriate medical terminology as it pertains to COVID-19 patients who are still experiencing medical issues for weeks and even months after the diagnosis.
Sign Languages of Canada: The Canadian Language Museum’s Newest Travelling Exhibit
The Canadian Language Museum (CLM) is a small museum with an extensive reach. Its exhibits have been displayed from coast to coast to coast: from Victoria to St. John’s to James Bay. It is the only museum in Canada devoted to linguistic heritage and one of the few language museums in the world.
Realizing the Benefits
of Group Aural Rehabilitation in Newfoundland
Funded by a 2019 IDA Institute clinical research grant, audiologists Anne Griffin and Taylor Burt explore how the benefits of group aural rehabilitation could be made accessible to people with hearing loss in rural Newfoundland.