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Volume 11
Hearing and Nutrition: Why Integrated Care Could be Beneficial
Connections between hearing and nutrition that might be important in integrated inter-professional primary care for older adults may involve malnutrition, obesity, dietary patterns, and diabetes. The connection between hearing and diabetes is also relevant to vision as a key capacity. These connections allow hearing care to play a role in integrated care to promote healthy aging.
Volume 10
“I’ve Lost My Hearing”: Emotions Unleashed
Gael recently spoke at a conference of people with hearing loss – one of her favorite things to do. The shared emotions and experiences of people who ‘get’ each other is eternally inspiring to her.
What About Sex, Gender, Hearing, and Aging?
CanadianAudiologist.ca is pleased to welcome Dr. Kathy Pichora-Fuller as our new columnist. Her column “What’s new about getting older?” will delve into all aspects of ageing and hearing ranging from health policy developments to neurophysical research on the aging auditory brain.
Volume 9
Advocating For Less Noise and More Quiet
Arlene Bronzaft writes how she became more involved in advocating for lessening environmental noise and enhancing quieter spaces by joining groups with similar interests and working with local communities impacted by noise, especially in urban centers.
Message from the Editor-in-Chief
Non-auditory Effects of Lower-Level Environmental Noise This issue of CanadianAudiologist.ca is about audiology and also not about audiology. The topic of how lower levels of environmental noise affect the body has been formally studied since 1946, yet has not shown anything definitive about long-term effects related to sleep disruption, annoyance, or overall stress. The following…
Volume 7
Mysteries of the Hearing Brain – Music and the Hearing Brain
Audiologists are most interested in interventions that lead to better speech understanding. However, the evidence for the benefits of music training on speech-in-noise (SIN) performance has been mixed.
Auditory Implications in Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Where Do We Need to Go?
Symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury in children are generally heterogenous (emotional, physical, behavioural or sensory) and their variety and duration following mTBI may make it very difficult for some children to return to school and/or regular activities and proper diagnosis and management of symptoms and conditions is highly important.
Optimizing Outcomes for Children Who are Hard of Hearing
Walker et al write about how accurate pictures of how hearing aids support language development in children who are hard of hearing and why it is essential to implementing scientifically-based intervention and counseling for caregivers.
Volume 6
Striking the Right Balance – Hearing and Balance: What is the Evidence?
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Maxime Maheu and his colleagues at the University of Montreal and the Montreal Geriatric University Institute summarize the current knowledge and offer important insight on the role of hearing in postural control.
Volume 5
Did I Blow My Chance?
Gael Hannan tells us about here recent trip to Scandinavia, her speech at GN Resound, and her experiences with accessibility along the way.