WAYNE'S WORLD - WAYNE STAAB, EDITOR EMERITUS

Wayne Staab, Hearing Health Matters

In January 2018, Wayne Staab, Founding Member and an Editor-In-Chief of HHTM, retired his blog, Wayne's World. However, the content Dr. Staab developed and published over the years in this section remains a rich resource that deserves to be discovered by new readers and referenced by earlier readers. Comment Policy

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SOUND

PSAP Standard Review
August 1, 2017 2756 views
Legislation recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives1 and expected to be passed... Read More
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Sound Quantification
March 30, 2014 2034 views
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