Hearing Views

By David H. Kirkwood A blog is a good place to be candid, so I’ll confess that for a good many years I was hooked on Dallas. No, not the city, though I do have some good friends at Callier. The Dallas that kept me home on far too many Friday evenings in the late 1970s and the 1980s (this

Brian Taylor’s advice to hearing care professionals on how to offer their patients services that cannot be provided by sophisticated machines or inexpensive labor overseas was published originally on the Hearing Economics blog on May 16. Holly Hosford-Dunn, the editor of Hearing Economics, and I agreed that we should bring his valuable ideas to the attention of readers who missed

By David H. Kirkwood One of the joys, headaches, and responsibilities that come with being a blog editor is dealing with the comments that are constantly flowing in—literally–24-7. And what a motley assortment of communications they are, especially if you consider the spam.   THE SPAMDEMIC In fact, the great majority of the comments (to use the term loosely) that

In the days following the death of Dr. Robert Sandlin on May 4, the Internet was filled with heartfelt expressions of sorrow and fond reminiscences by Bob’s countless friends and admirers. Last week on Hearinghealthmatters.org, Wayne’s World and Hearing News Watch published tributes to him. However, in view of the continuing outpouring of tributes to this extraordinary audiologist and no less

By David H. Kirkwood It may not be quite a Hollywood ending, but it seems that better times are on the horizon for movie lovers whose hearing loss has prevented them from pursuing their passion. I certainly hope so. As someone who shares their passion for movies, I can empathize with the disappointment and frustration that deaf and hard-of-hearing cinephiles

By Gabrielle Filips, AuD As professionals in the hearing health industry, our main goal is to ensure the best hearing experience possible for hearing aid wearers. That experience  goes beyond the way wearers hear in their surroundings, and extends to how they handle and manage their hearing aids and hearing aid batteries. Currently, the percentage of hearing aid wearers who

This week, I am pleased to present a Hearing View by Christine Diles, AuD. It is a revised version of a post that was originally published March 20 on the Hearing Economics blog at Hearinghealthmatters.org. David H. Kirkwood, Editor, Hearing Views   By Christine Diles About 20 years ago, Lars Kolind, then CEO of Oticon, transformed the Danish-based hearing aid company

By Melissa K. Rodriguez Last June, the New York Times reported that two veteran New York police officers had been being forced to retire because of the NYPD’s newly enforced rule barring officers from wearing hearing aids on the job. The Times also reported that younger officers had been instructed to stop wearing their aids or risk losing their jobs. This

By David H. Kirkwood I want to let you in on a little secret. While the blog Hearinghealthmatters.org (HHM) has been published for nearly 11 months, the team that makes it happen is more virtual than real. Sure, the dozen of us editors who post weekly on The Blogs @ Hearing Health & Technology Matters are flesh-and-blood people. Or, at

By Maurice H. Miller When we deny our hearing aid patients effective programs of rehabilitation, we render them unable to function in a variety of important real-life listening situations. We also increase their isolation from loved ones and society. We may be giving them more sophisticated hearing aids with adjustable digital circuitry and almost infinitely variable microphone circuits. But, are