Hearing Views

By Fred Cohen Douglas Bahl, an advocate for the deaf, teaches American Sign Language (ASL) at the University of Minnesota. He reads English at a sixth-grade level, and usually communicates in ASL, though he uses a Blackberry handheld device to communicate by text and email. When Bahl communicates with non-ASL speakers in person, he typically uses an interpreter or alternatively

By Janice Schacter Lintz   (1) People with hearing loss are older adults. According to NIDCD and the Better Hearing Institute, of the 36 million people in the United States with some degree of hearing loss, only 30% are 65 or older.   (2) A child who responds to sound does not have a hearing loss. Hearing loss is a

By David H. Kirkwood  The science and technology available to treat hearing loss improve by the day, yet it sometimes seems that society’s attitudes toward hearing, hearing loss, and those who have it are as backward as ever. A particularly terrible example of stupidity and insensitivity toward those who can’t hear was reported this week by an investigative television news

The following is the third and final part of Dr. Roeser’s series on accreditation of university audiology programs. The first two were published in the July 4 and July 25 editions of Hearing Views.   By Ross J. Roeser As I have discussed here in two previous Hearing Views, proper accreditation of university programs that educate future audiologists is very

The following post is the second in a three-part series on audiology accreditation.   By Ross J. Roeser My first blog post on audiology accreditation focused on how faculties within universities view accreditation: They aren’t looking for more things to do, shrinking budgets don’t provide additional funding, their speech-language pathology faculty colleagues must continue with CAA (Council on Academic Accreditation in

By David H. Kirkwood There are an awful lot of health-related subjects that capture the attention of the news media. Whenever there’s a hint of progress toward curing cancer, losing weight, warding off old age, improving one’s face or figure, or treating anxiety, depression, or pain, you can count on every communications medium out there to pick up on it.

I’m pleased to introduce Sara Bloom, this week’s guest contributor to Hearing Views. Sara has been writing for me for almost my entire career in journalism. She was an award-winning feature writer and all-round news reporter for a community newspaper in the New York suburbs where I was editor and publisher. Later, she wrote dozens of cover stories for a

By Ross Roeser Having been one of the fortunate audiologists invited to the founding meeting of the American Academy of Audiology, I vividly remember that it was then that I heard for the first time the notion of the Doctor of Audiology becoming the new designator for the profession of audiology. What a unique concept! Not only would audiologists have

By Brian Taylor According to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau, 15.8 million adults over the age of 18 live with their parents. Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 represent two-thirds of this population. This is a whopping 2.25 million increase between 2007 and 2010. The profession of audiology is a lot like these 25-to-34-year-olds who

In the following Hearing View, Joe Ficarra expresses some strong opinions that are likely to stimulate equally strong reactions, pro and con. We invite readers to submit your comments in response to Mr. Ficarra’s post. –David H. Kirkwood By Joe Ficarra We all read articles, newsletters, and e-mails regarding the onslaught of competition from UnitedHealthcare, Costco, the Internet, mail-order companies,