Nov. 16, 2022
by Robert M. Traynor, Ed.D., MBA, FNAP, Robert Traynor Audiology, LLC, Ft Collins, CO., and Garry G. Gordon, M.S. Audiologist /CEO E.A.R., Inc., Boulder CO. Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO, 2021) estimates that 1.5 billion people (nearly 20% of the global population) live with some degree of recordable hearing impairment. For 700 million of these individuals their degree of hearing