The Last Layer is Peeled Away
“Peeling the Onion” is a monthly column by Harvey Abrams, PhD. This will be my last post as part of the “Peeling the Onion” series. When I first began these articles, I felt its name was an apt metaphor for the issues facing hearing healthcare in general and the audiology profession in particular –…
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Gapers Block: Another Roadside Attraction Detracts from our Real Challenges
“Signal & Noise” is a bimonthly column by Brian Taylor, AuD. It’s human nature to slow down and gawk at the site of an accident. Even if it’s for a split second, the site of something unusual diverts our attention from ordinary tasks. Over the past month there has been a lot of opportunities to…
Read MoreThe Transtheoretical Model and Audiologic Care
“Peeling the Onion” is a monthly column by Harvey Abrams, PhD “There is nothing wrong with change as long as it is in the right direction” – Winston Churchill To date, the theme of my posts has focused on the two primary approaches to audiologic care – medical and rehabilitative. The rehabilitative approach recognizes…
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Rehabilitative Audiology: Hearing Loss as a Chronic Health Condition
“Peeling the Onion” is a monthly column by Harvey Abrams, PhD. In last month’s post, I discussed the influence of our profession’s early history on our current self-perception of audiology as a medical model of care and suggested that we may want to consider reframing our profession as a rehabilitative discipline. In fact, there are…
Read MoreAre We Best Served by a Medical Audiology Model?
“Peeling the Onion” is a monthly column by Harvey Abrams, PhD In last month’s post, I spoke of Audiology’s origins as a rehabilitative discipline and its transition to a doctoring profession. How did we get to where we are? Without peeling back too many layers of the onion, arguably, the major driver was the…
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