Robert Traynor

Robert M. Traynor, Ed.D., is a hearing industry consultant, trainer, professor, conference speaker, practice manager and author. He is a founding member of HHTM and had previously written a regular weekly column for the site for many years. He has decades of experience teaching courses and training clinicians within the field of audiology with specific emphasis in hearing and tinnitus rehabilitation. He serves as Adjunct Faculty in Audiology at the University of Florida, University of Northern Colorado, University of Colorado and The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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Reader’s Choice: The 110Hz Phenomenon

The second most popular post of 2018 dealt with the 110 Hz phenomenon. An interesting concept with lots of international historic implications. It is presented here in its entirety as the first post of 2019. —————————————————————————— An old Soap Lake High School (Soap Lake, Washington) buddy, Mike McNamara had just watched a History Channel episode on the 110 Hz phenomena.

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Reader’s Choice: Meniere’s Disease on the Moon

The most popular blog at Hearing International this year was Meniere’s Disease on the Moon, first published May 15, 2018. It was our pleasure to tell the story of a true American Hero, Astronaut Allen Shepard. A man with true guts to go into Space with Meniere’s Disease. This Holiday Season let us remember all of our heroes in various

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The Sounds of Mars

This segment of Hearing International could almost be called Hearing Interplanetary as it relates to the sounds of Mars. Recently, the multinational project called InSight Lander found its way to Mars to study the make up of the planet. Early Experiences with Mars in America Some of the earliest sounds of Mars heard by an American audience was on the

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Woodworking and Hearing Protection: A Carpenter’s View

While most audiologists realize that exposure to power tool noise while wood working can be hazardous to your hearing, there are still others that are not convinced. Often they feel that they have been exposed to noise for such a long time more exposure it will not make much difference. Since there is already a hearing loss so….“So what, a

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Decoding Hitler’s Deafness: Uncovering the Impact of his Hearing Loss

Last week, we delved into the fascinating history of the July 20, 1944 Valkyrie plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. However, one question has perplexed historians and experts for nearly 70 years: How did Hitler survive a blast from a kilogram of plastic explosive when he was only 6-12 feet away from the bomb? While history will never know the extent

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Hitler’s Hearing Loss – Exploring Operation Valkyrie’s Impact on Hitler’s Hearing

This series of posts at looks at Hitler’s hearing impairment. This is the second posting in this series and it is certainly not a tribute, but an interesting discussion of a hearing loss that was accumulated over a lifetime by an historical figure. This series is a re-visit of a topic that was first discussed at Hearing International August 27-September

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Auditory Hallucinations

One of my first encounters with patients that had voices in their head was as a young audiologist running subjects in a biofeedback study. At the time, we were looking at the therapeutical benefits of biofeedback for tinnitus patients. One of our perspective subjects, a 92 year old woman, reported that her tinnitus was hearing voices. Of course, with the

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Caring For Deaf Dogs

A few years ago at Hearing International we had a post about the aural rehabilitation of deaf dogs, We discussed some of the breeds that are prone to deafness. Additionally, we presented how dogs were tested for deafness and a bit about how to care for them. This was 6 years ago and the evaluation of dogs and other animals by

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What’s In A Name: A New Audiology Name Game!

In my continued search for all things audiology and international, my travels recently took me to Bismarck, North Dakota. Yes, I know, North Dakota is part of the U.S., but the city was named after the German, Otto Von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire. I just had a sense something audiologic might appear. I couldn’t find Otto, but

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Youth at Risk for developing Lifestyle Induced Hearing Loss

This week’s Hearing International features guest authors from the Department of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Amity Medical School, Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon, India. Archana Dass, Himanshu Kumar Sanju, and Arun Kumar Yadav have conducted an interesting study of young adults and their exposure to noise and other environmental sounds that could lead to hearing loss. The following is their report………RMT —————————————————————————————————————————————-