Hearing and Kids

Today’s blog is written by Hilary Davis, AuD; Ben Hornsby, PhD, Stephen Camarata, PhD, and Fred Bess, PhD from Vanderbilt University. This is an important topic and they are doing wonderful research in this area.   What is fatigue? Fatigue is something most everyone has experienced. Despite its omnipresence, fatigue can be difficult to define as there is no agreed

Auditory processing disorders are one of the more controversial issues in audiology. I think we have reached the point were we all agree that auditory processing disorders exist, but how to diagnose, who can diagnose, and how to treat are up for debate. Can a speech-language pathologist, or psychologist make the diagnosis or only an audiologist? Do you really have

I am in Madrid this week doing workshops with CLAVE and AGBell International. AGBell is working to expand to international areas and Spanish speaking countries came first. I spoke at the Spanish ENT Society on Monday, and yesterday I was at the university speaking to audiology and speech-pathology students as well as professionals and parents. Today and tomorrow I will

Today’s blog is written by Dr. Arline L. Bronzaf. Dr. Bronzaft  is a researcher, writer and consultant on the adverse effects of noise on mental and physical health.  She is the co-author of Why Noise Matters and has written about noise in books, academic journals, encyclopedias and the popular press.  Dr. Bronzaft is a Professor Emerita of the City University

I have been fortunate in my chosen profession. I got into it a bit by accident but I have loved absolutely every minute of it. How many people can find something that they enjoy doing, and in which that can effect significant change. I was lucky, I found just such a profession. For over 50 years, I have worked with

There is a lot of discussion in pediatric audiology about when to start using remote microphone systems for little ones with hearing loss. The opinions vary from shortly after we fit them with hearing aids (mine) to not until they start school. My view about early use of FM may come from the state of technology when I started in

  For children with hearing loss who are using spoken language to succeed they need to wear their technology all walking hours. If technology is appropriately set children should be willing to wear their technology. But occasionally children reject technology. When this happens we need to know why. Only when we know why can we adjust things so that the

One of my most favorite activities is running a support group for children with hearing loss. I was lucky enough to get to do that this weekend. I was invited to Phoenix by Anu Mathew, mom, of a child with hearing loss, who has started a group called Support for Young with Hearing Loss (SYHL). Yesterday I worked with a

Malcolm Gladwell reports that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to learn something new. Hart and Risley report that typical children hear about 46 million words by age 4. Dehaene reports that a child needs 20,000 hours of listening as a basis for reading. Pittman reports that children with hearing loss require three times the exposure of typical hearing children

Today’s blog, about a topic I consider critical (literacy), is written by my friend Krista Heavner, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT. Krista is a Cochlear Implant Consumer Specialist for Advanced Bionics, providing support and education for cochlear implant candidates and recipients, their families, and professionals in the southeastern part of the US. Prior to this position, Krista was a consultant for deaf