Category: Auditory Training

Better Hearing From Darkness?

Robert Traynor Audiology / Auditory Research / Auditory Training / Hearing loss / Medical Cures for Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss / Mouse research Hearing / Multisensory research / Research in Audiology / Research in Hearing / Sensory Research

What do Ray Charles (Click on Ray for a Song) and Stevie Wonder  (Click on Stevie for a song) have in common?  Besides super music, both people were blind, which, according to recent studies, may enhance hearing not only for acuity, but for quality as well.  A few months go, Hearing International published an article about…

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Marion P. Downs, DHS, Hon Sc.D. – International Audiologist

Robert Traynor 1 Comment Audiology / Audiology Leadership / Audiology Practice / Auditory Training / Binaural Fittings / Binaural Hearing / Committment - Audiology / Hearing aids / Hearing Europe / Hearing healthcare / Hearing impairment / Hearing loss / Hearing Loss Cures / Hearing loss worldwide / Hearing Professionals / History of Deaf Education / Marion Downs Hearing Center / Newborn Hearing Screening / Otolaryngology / Pediatric Audiology / Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

In a couple of months it will be 41 years since the young future editor of Hearing International  first met Dr. Marion P. Downs, then a Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.  That fateful day she had been assigned to be one of my internship supervisors,  responsible for a very…

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