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Volume 11

Audiology in the Classroom

Dr. Connie Mayer from York University, and Dr. Sue Archbold and Brian Lamb from the Cochlear Implant International Community of Action (CIICA) share the research and advocacy work of CIICA to understand the needs of adults with cochlear implants, services that are (or more frequently, are not) available to them, their experiences and recommendations for creating an international network of cochlear implant user groups, families, and professionals.

Volume 10

Teacher Questions: Do Cochlear Implants Work?

In these next few issues of Canadian Audiologist, Pam will address some of the common questions she hears from teachers. The first is, do cochlear implants work?

Volume 9

Mysteries of the Hearing Brain: Aging and Cochlear Implants

Although never directly involved in cochlear implant fittings, Samira Anderson’s practice changed dramatically when cochlear implantation became a viable solution for many patients.

Volume 7

Cochlear Implant Decision-Making for Children with Residual Hearing

The proportion of children with residual hearing who receive cochlear implants is increasing across Canada and worldwide. Na et al’s research is a useful first step in providing evidence to assist the CI decision-making process for this specific population.

Music Learning for Hearing Impaired and Deaf Children: Capabilities and Effects

The uOttawa Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from uOttawa Audiology and the ENT and Otolaryngology clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), has been running a research program to investigate the abilities of cochlear implant (CI) recipients in learning and performing music, and the effects of music learning on their hearing system and well-being.

Testing for Cochlear Dead Regions: Audiometer Implementation of the TEN(HL) Test

High thresholds in the TEN are likely in all cases to be associated with a poor ability to understand speech when background sounds are present.

Mysteries of the Hearing Brain — What Can Rate Code Tell Us About Cochlear-Implant and Older Listeners?

Samira Anderson looks at how impaired rate discrimination may affect an older person’s ability to understand speech in a cocktail party scenario.

Volume 6

Importance of Vestibular Testing in Cochlear Implant Assessments

In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Audiologist Myron Huen from the Cochlear Implant team at St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, shares her experience performing vestibular assessments in Cochlear Implant candidates.

Volume 5

Introducing Mysteries of the Hearing Brain!

Our newest contributor, Samira Anderson, provides a bit of personal and professional background, and the basis for her new column.

Cochlear Implantation: A Great Boost to Hearing Health Care

Bob was recently invited to write the foreword to a new textbook on cochlear implants and implantable hearing devices, and in particular asked to give some historical perspectives. He shares it with us in this issue as “Cochlear Implantation: A Great Boost to Hearing Health Care.”