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The Benefit of Remote Microphones with Four Different Wireless Protocols
This article reports on an investigation of the speech recognition benefits of four commercially available remote microphone systems, each with a different wireless audio transmission protocol.
Can We Measure Our Age in dB? … You Must Be Kidding?
The answer to this question may surprise you.
High-Fidelity Earplug Attenuation Measurements Agree After All
Musicians earplugs are indeed flat after all and provide uniform attenuation of sound from 80 Hz to over 16,000 Hz making them ideal for playing and listening to music.
Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force Position Statement
The Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force recently released their Position Statement on Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI).
How Can The Audiogram Be More Useful?
Hosted by Drs. Manohar Bance and Steve Aiken, the Canadian Hearing and Auditory Research Translation (CHART) group held its first workshop in Halifax NS for leaders in audiology, otology, and hearing science from across the country to discuss priority research questions and form plans to address them.
Student Poster Presentations
In this issue, we are proud to feature two more Student Poster Presentation from the 2014 CAA Conference. In this issue we give you, “Outcomes of Patients Implanted with the Bonebridge Bone Conduction Device by Ricky Chow, MCl Sc Candidate (Audiology) and Do Adults with Increased Fitness Levels Show Resistance to Age-Related Hearing Loss?” by Tori Stone, MCl Sc Candidate – Audiology.
Evaluating the Suitability of Hearing Aid Manufacturer Websites for Older Adults
Dalhousie Students, Lyndsey Blakeley, Jenna MacGregor, Sarah McQuaid, and Michelle Zou, take an interesting look at “Evaluating the Suitability of Hearing Aid Manufacturer Websites for Older Adults.”
Columns
Other People's Ideas
The wearables are coming, the wearables are coming! Calvin explores this trend with some help from our good friends over at HearingHealthMatters.org.
Striking the Right Balance
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” column coordinator Janine Verge and her coauthor Anton Charko give us a “Proposal to Standardize Gaze during oVEMP Testing using a Chin Rest.”
The Way I Hear It
Gael Hannan explains how people with hearing loss occupy an awkward place in this world that spins on the sounds of people, nature, and machines that most other people can hear and understand.
Stories from Our Past
Wayne Staab tells us the story of how, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of events occurred that brought fitting hearing aids more deeply into the ear canal.
From the Centre Out
In the first of a three-part series, Kim Tillery looks at “Accommodating CAPDs – The Tripod System.”
Back to Basics
Class is in session for this issue’s “Back to Basics as Professor Marshall Chasin tells us about “Linguistics 101 for Hearing Healthcare Professionals.”