View Tag: ‘assessment’
Volume 10
Hearing Care in Integrated Person-Centered Care for Older Adults: Can Audiologic Rehabilitation Help in Meeting the Key Challenge Areas for Aging Well in Canada?
With increasing age, it is increasingly likely that older adults will experience multiple health issues, including sensory, motor, vitality, and psychological (cognitive and/or mental) health issues. As audiologists, we can help people hear better and function better as listeners and communicators.
Fundamentals of Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment and/or Dementia
With the increased focus on person centered care, the conversation surrounding aging has been reframed. Presently the biopsychosocial model prevails informed by primary, secondary and tertiary screening to promote healthy and successful aging.
Thinking Outside the Booth: Canadian Hearing Services
Founded in 1940, Canadian Hearing Services (CHS) has a long history and many years of experience providing products, services and education that empower Deaf and hard-of-hearing Canadians to overcome barriers to participation.
Volume 5
Assessing Classroom Learning Environments
In a follow up to last issue’s article, Pam Millett expands on the complex classroom learning environments that students with hearing loss encounter on a typical school day.
Volume 4
The Case for Diagnostic Audiology: Is Anyone Listening?
Glynnis Tidball tells us why audiolgists need to be active clinical and academic partners in the education of physicians and others working in the health sciences.
Volume 3
Establishing Clinical Normative Data for Wideband Tympanometry Measurements
For Wideband Tympanometry Measurements (WBT) to be more widely implemented in clinical settings, normative data that are collected from specific clinical populations are needed. The primary goal of this study is to establish WBT normative data for the population served at University of the Pacific Hearing and Balance Center in San Francisco, US.
Striking the Right Balance
Lisa Koch, AuD, discusses what she feels is the general scope of practice audiologists should consider when including vestibular rehabilitation in their practice.
Volume 1
CAPD Guidelines
Kim Tillery explains the nature of central auditory processing disorders (CAPD).
Treatment Plans in Audiology
Advice on deciding which communications devices are needed to assist patients in their activities of daily living before developing a treatment plan.