Marshall Chasin fondly remembers Jack Katz, PhD, known for his pioneering work on central auditory processing disorders and improving audiology through research and education. He has died at the age of 91.
Does lower-level noise play a factor in long-term health consequences?
It is rare to have a column about a review of an article—especially an article from almost 40 years ago—but the 1983 publication by Skinner and Miller is a must-read (or must re-read) article. It describes the work primarily done by Margaret (Margo) Skinner in her PhD thesis.
Are there specific frequency transpositions that would be acceptable? As it turns out, more may not necessarily be such a bad thing.
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For speech, frequency transposition works very well, but music is not speech. Music is made up exclusively of notes and their harmonics.
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Spreading the word about tinnitus care throughout the community can help hearing care professionals stand out from the crowd while developing a busy niche. This article looks using tinnitus remediation and financing options to help build your practice.
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How to provide your patients the opportunity to purchase important accessory items like remote mics, looping systems, and alarm/alerting devices—systems that can make a big difference in their outcomes.
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The University at Buffalo will hold its 2020 Northeast Audiology Conference (NEAC) via Zoom on November 14 between 9 am – 5 pm.
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LRADs are loudspeaker systems on steroids and are easily capable of generating outputs on the order of 120 dBA at 10 meters. Although we don’t have very good models for noise exposure over 115 dBA, we do know that levels of 120 dBA (with peaks being up to 15 dB higher) can create acoustic trauma.
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Eberts, a hearing health advocate and founder of the Living With Hearing Loss blog, will become the new section editor for FindHearing.
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MusiciansClinics.com is a resource for those seeking information on a variety of topics related to hearing and hearing loss in musicians. Developed by audiologist-musician Marshall Chasin, AuD, the website offers a large range of resources for guitarists, bass players, violinists, woodwind players, school band teachers, and more.
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Audiologists should at least offer assessment of tinnitus patients and provide basic intervention for tinnitus through hearing aids and other devices, the provision of accurate tinnitus-care information, and/or referrals to other providers for tinnitus-related services. Here’s an easy-to-understand protocol for patients with tinnitus from Dr James Henry and colleagues.
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The organization has announced the addition of Nick Fitzgerald as Partner and Chief Marketing Officer.
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The peak sound pressure really has no value in the estimation of the sound exposure dose whether this is music, industrial noise, or recreational noise.
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Marshall Chasin explains how earplugs are modified for long-eared or short-eared individuals who have ear canal resonances that are less, or more, than the usual 2700 Hz.
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Like all healthcare fields where the clinician needs to explain complex concepts to the lay public, metaphors are used. In the optical field, “nearsighted” and “farsighted” are actually good metaphors despite their simplicity and academic inaccuracy. In the field of audiology, we have the description of the audiogram with the piano keyboard across the top; a good explanation, but limited in that it’s only the right hand side of the keyboard and musical notes are not pure-tones.
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Audiologist Marshall Chasin posits a simple test that can be employed with a piano or keyboard that might quickly screen people for the possibility of a cochlear dead zone.
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The Bernoulli effect is central to how we speak and it, at least in part, defines many of the characteristics of the speech spectrum input to hearing aids.
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