ASHA President Gail Richard isn’t a fan of loud restaurants. She has hearing loss in one ear, so dinner conversations are challenging for her in any setting. But the current…
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A Compelling Case to Turn Down the Volume
by Gail Richard May 3, 2017Better Hearing and Speech Month provides audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech and hearing scientists an extra reason to promote our professions and issues we care about on a grand scale.…
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Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Prevention During Better Hearing and Speech Month
by Melissa Wilson May 2, 2017As an audiologist and a human being nearing age 40, I know the lifetime cumulative effects of noise blunt my ears—and those of my patients: an increase in saying “huh?,”…
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Audiologist Talks About Noise-Induced Hearing Loss on Baltimore Local News
by Shelley D. Hutchins November 16, 2016Audiologist—and ASHA member—Julie Norin talked about hearing loss caused by common and constant noise in our everyday lives during a recent news segment on local Baltimore channel ABC2. Norin warned of seemingly…