Hearing International

Most audiologists know Dr. Marion Downs and her contributions to the field of audiology, especially in pediatric audiology.  At the time of her passing at age 100 in 2014, 97% of all babies born in the United States were screened for hearing.  Some of us were her students, others were collaborative researchers, but all of us were admirers of a great

This discussion should be prefaced with the statement that I have no actual research to make the suggestion that will appear here, but it is a great doctoral dissertation.  This week at Hearing International will discuss the use of smart phones to treat tinnitus.   Smart phones have totally taken over our lives for many things, family communication, email, messages,

So where does Audiology meet Art History?   One of the first classics at HHTM was the discussion of how Vincent van Gogh really lost his pinna.  While some feel that he just wacked off his right pinna with a knife….there is another version of the story that we found at Hearing International originally posted as “The Mysterious Case of

The week’s Hearing International is prepared by guest author Shelley Moats, Au.D.  Shelley describes her motivation for her interest in pediatric audiology as well as the benefits of becoming Pediatric Audiology Specialty Certified by the American Board of Audiology.    Shelly works with children each and every day at Little Ears Hearing Center at Open Arms Children’s Health in Louisville,

This series of posts at looks at Hitler’s hearing impairment.  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 10, 2013. While much of the content will be

Another fun Hearing International post this year was May 16, the story of a lost super hero of audiology.  It was a post about a rather forgotten radio engineer from Bell Telephone Labs and Sonotone, Orin E. Marvel, who was typical of the engineers and scientists that began the field of Audiology.  This post capitalizes on the super hero craze

There are so many great moments of Hearing International these days with over 350 posts since we began HHTM in 2011.  Another personal favorite post was about Miller Reese Hutchinson, inventor of the first Electronic hearing aid.  This post allowed me to “meet” Miller Hutchinson’s great-great grandson via email.  As you can see, from this post, Hutchinson was quite an

Toward the end of the year many of the Editors at HHTM are presenting the best post of the year.  One of the best for 2017 at Hearing International was the discussion of Ken Dahlberg, a giant in our industry.  The posting on Ken generated many comments and emails from those that worked him over the years…… So here is

The past couple of weeks we have looked at the hearing loss of Howard Hughes. The story is one of a bazaar journey as Mr. Hughes goes from being a famous movie maker, aviator and aircraft designer to the mentally incompetent recluse that we came to know at the end of his days. But was 1976 really the end of

Last week we discussed the bizarre behavior of one of the richest people in world history, Howard Robards Hughes, Jr. There are reasonably credible stories that have surfaced about Mr. Hughes suggesting that the person on record as dying as Howard Hughes while descending into Houston April 12, 1976 may not have actually been him. It seems that Mr. Hughes