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Editor’s Note: On occasion Pathways will publish interviews with basic and clinical scientists. This month we feature a clinician who also has had long standing interest in the science as it influences the clinician. Ron Leavitt provides an interesting profile that  we think readers will enjoy and from which we can learn. Hi Ron, thanks for doing this interview !

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by Frank Musiek, PhD While coursing through the literature the other day I came across some relatively recent articles that reported on some recent research on the binaural interaction component or BIC. I was a bit surprised because the BIC’s popularity in the 1980’s seemed to have subsided for many years. Therefore, I thought it appropriate to briefly comment on

Pathways: An informative 5 minute read… by Frank Musiek, PhD In diagnostic audiology procedures are developed, reported and often show promise. However, for some reason of many these procedures are never adopted for clinical use. In this script we will revisit one such audiological procedure – it was termed the inter-aural intensity difference (IID). Marilyn Pinheiro developed this particular procedure

Editors Note: The Auditory Processing Domains Questionnaire (APDQ) by Brian O’Hara has continued to receive more attention as a tool in CAPD evaluation. Pathways thought it was timely to do an interview with Dr. O’Hara and learn more about him and the APDQ. This month is Part 2 of an interview with Brian O’Hara and the APDQ. (click here for Part

Editors Note: The Auditory Processing Domains Questionnaire (APDQ) by Brian O’Hara has continued to receive more attention as a tool in CAPD evaluation. Pathways thought it was timely to do an interview with Dr. O’Hara and learn more about him and the APDQ. The following is the first in a two-part interview that delves into the background of this clinician

by Frank Musiek, PhD One of the first studies to address the issue of auditory temporal processing was published by Ira Hirsh in 1959. In many ways this study also popularized the term “temporal” to the field of audiology. The study was fundamental as it looked at the most basic aspect of placing in the correct order two short acoustic

Jennifer Shinn, PhD, Professor and Chief of Audiology, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Kentucky Medical Center Trey Cline, AuD, Clinical Audiologist, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Kentucky Medical Center Introduction: As you will remember in Part I, we presented the case of a 39-year-old male who was diagnosed with an auditory processing deficit (APD). He had longstanding difficulties hearing in

by Aaron Whiteley & Frank Musiek, University of Arizona Intro. & Review of Part 1: In part 1 an overview of the research in validating the 2/3 rule in the location of Heschl’s gyrus was discussed. The data showed that, within measurement limitations the 2/3 rule can be used to accurately locate Heschl’s gyrus in the human brain. In part

Jennifer Shinn, PhD, Professor and Chief of Audiology, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Kentucky Medical Center Trey Cline, AuD, Clinical Audiologist, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Kentucky Medical Center   Introduction: A significant part of our clinical practice is evaluating and managing patients with auditory processing disorders (APD). All too often adults are overlooked when it comes to evaluation of