Angela Loavenbruck

Angela Loavenbruck, a former president of the American Academy of Audiology, has been a prominent leader in audiology for over 40 years. She co-authored the first textbook for dispensing audiologists and continues to influence the field through her ongoing work and forthright opinions on audiology education.
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Feb. 10, 2015

The Millennium – Crabby Audiologists Learning the Alphabet

Angela Loavenbruck
By Angela Loavenbruck, EdD The start of the 21st century saw  the  American Academy of Audiology (AAA) maturing as an organization with clearer insight into the challenges ahead for audiology. Brad Stach, one of the founders of AAA and a past President, was quoted as saying that the original meeting of those 32 audiologists in 1988 was first and foremost about
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Jan. 21, 2015

The 90s Onward: Fighting the Inevitable, the Mountain Moved and Promises Not Yet Kept

Angela Loavenbruck
Ah yes, the 90s began with many gloriously crabby audiologists and I was certainly one of them. In fact, I’d call the 90s heaven for a crabby audiologist. At the time, I was a member of the ASHA Standards Council and the Legislative Council. I had been appointed to serve on an ASHA Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Education. As
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Dec. 31, 2014

Back to the Future – The Contentious 80’s

Angela Loavenbruck
By Angela Loavenbruck, Ed.D. Talk about crabby – the 80’s were full of a lot of audiologists feeling very crabby about many of the issues impinging on our profession. They were crabby about the education system and the growing sense that the Master’s Degree/Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) structure was no longer adequate given the emergence of new diagnostic and treatment
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Oct. 29, 2014

Back to the Beginning – Some History and a Mystery

Angela Loavenbruck
By Angela Loavenbruck, Ed.D. The Crabby Audiologist is going to begin this week’s entry with a little mystery and then review a little history. Here’s a number that makes me very very crabby: $6,000,000. And another number that makes me even crabbier: $40,000,000. These two numbers are the answers to two questions that I will discuss more fully in future
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Oct. 14, 2014

The Crabby Audiologist – Who’s Teaching Who, and When?

Angela Loavenbruck
By Angela Loavenbruck, Ed.D Ever since I agreed to join my illustrious colleagues writing for Hearing Views (a decision that coincided with a brief moment of insanity, given my hatred of writing deadlines), I’ve been thinking a lot about Lucy Van Pelt, my all-time favorite cartoon character. She was pretty crabby, and after 45 years of practicing audiology, there are some