Audiology

“Communication Across the Lifespan” is this year’s BHSM theme. A campaign logo and free resources—including posters, bookmarks, coloring pages, social media cover photos, and more—are already available www.asha.org/bhsm with more to come, including press release templates members can easily customize, free patient handouts, and celebration/appreciation cards. Visit the site and continue to check back.

Spring is here, but perhaps you already got a jump on your spring cleaning ritual in January as Marie Kondo fever took over our collective screens and homes. If so, why not use this time to consider some spring cleaning approaches to share with your clients and their family’s technology use—with a focus on what actually sparks joy. 

The World Health organization (WHO) created a free app allowing users to check their hearing with a mobile device. Launched to coincide with World Hearing Day, the app is called “hearWHO” is available free on Apple and Google Play.

In the summer of 2018—just a little more than 16 years since I received my undergraduate degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore—I started a new job as a clinical assistant professor several miles north of my alma mater at Towson University. Prior to this appointment, I worked as a clinical audiologist in a children’s hospital and now for the U.S. Army Reserve, as well as an educational audiologist and teacher at a school for the deaf.

A consequence of strong sense of empathy combined with repeated or prolonged interaction with people who experienced trauma. Compassion fatigue can result in negative physical, emotional and cognitive effects. Those of us in helping professions often develop compassion fatigue. If we notice the signs early, however, we can take steps to ensure our ability to maintain a healthy amount of compassion throughout our careers.