Hearing Views

By David H. Kirkwood Every Wednesday since April 2011, Hearing Views has been bringing you opinions on subjects related in some way to hearing. As editor of the blog, I have been responsible for making sure there was an original opinion piece ready to publish each of the past 125 weeks. Fortunately, I’ve had a lot of help in fulfilling

By Fred Cohen Last June, I discussed a federal district (i.e., trial) court decision in the case of Argenyi v. Creighton University, 2011 WL 4431177 (D. Neb. 2011) (not reported elsewhere). The court granted summary judgment to Creighton, the defendant, finding, in effect, that no further discovery, and certainly not a trial, was necessary because the plaintiff, a severely hearing-impaired

By David H. Kirkwood I had a most enjoyable conversation the other day with Anna Gilmore Hall, the new executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA). She’s been in that position for only a month or two ago, and is quick to acknowledge that she’s still learning the territory. Our get-acquainted talk was one of many that

By Larry Engelmann Having read discussions at HearingHealthMatters.org on the high cost of becoming an audiologist and other challenges confronting our profession, I would like to offer some ideas on how audiology can improve professional education and raise the prospects for success of new Doctors of Audiology.   TIME FOR A NAME CHANGE In the early years of the movement

This week’s Hearing View by Harvey Abrams, PhD, originally appeared on the Starkey Hearing Blogs on June 14, 2013 and was re-published on July 10, by permission, on my colleague Holly Hosford-Dunn’s blog, Hearing Economics. Because Dr. Abrams did such a great job of making the case for why hearing aids cost as much as they do, I wanted to

By Ian Windmill and Barry Freeman An issue that frequently arises during discussions of academic programs in audiology pertains to the number of programs. The concern most often expressed is that there are “too many” programs, not that there are “too few.” It is easy to see why this issue comes up so frequently. There are 73 accredited audiology programs

By David H. Kirkwood Recently, audiologist friends shared with me a letter that the executive director of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), Cheryl Kreider Carey, e-mailed last month to some of her group’s members. It included an excerpt from James Jerger’s April 1989 keynote address to the first convention of the academy that he had founded in 1988 and

By Michael A. Harvey “I was outraged on his behalf.” The accessibility advocate Barbara Johnson was referring to having met someone with hearing loss who didn’t understand that his employer was obligated to provide accommodations, and that his company would also benefit if he could contribute rather than withdraw. In contrast to Barbara’s outrage, he was unruffled: no big deal

In the following Hearing View, Dr. David Myers envisions a future transformed by the universal availability of hearing loops and telecoils. His presentation here is based on his acceptance remarks on receiving the 2013 Oticon Focus on People Award for Advocacy. The Focus on People Awards Luncheon took place May 16 at Oticon, Inc. headquarters in Somerset, NJ.   By

By H. Christopher Schweitzer and Robin C. Donnelly Considerable work has been devoted over the years to constructing a golden prescription by which to set the gain/frequency properties of hearing aids on the basis of the audiogram. But for every icon, the time comes for re-examination. At the risk of condemnation by orthodox professionals, we suggest that the pure-tone audiogram,