Welcome to The Hearing Blog! I’m Dan Schwartz, your host; and we will be discussing issues related to Hearing and Deafness, with the occasional detour into related topics such as acoustics, noise control, and high fidelity audio. In short, if it deals with sound, then it’s fair game!
While you’re at it, take a look at the various links to the right, as there is some very interesting content from other people around the world worth mentioning. While you’re at it, click the button below to follow this blog:
Dear Dan,
I enjoyed the relaxed vibe of your blog. Please have a look at my new website for families of children with hearing loss – http://www.hearingfamilies.com. Perhaps we can discuss a topic that would be of interest to you and your readers.
Best wishes,
Efrat Schorr
Comment by Efrat Schorr — June 14, 2010 @ 5:25 am
Hey Dan,
I like your blog! I put up my audiology results for you, so I’d be interested to know what your take on them is! =)
Editor Note: Here are the audiograms
July 2006:
November 2009:
Comment by Jen Veale — September 6, 2010 @ 1:41 am
Jen: Take a look at the links on the right for Single-Sided Deafness (SSD); and forward the links to your Hearing Aid Audiologist in Brisbane.
Comment by Supervisor — September 12, 2010 @ 10:37 am
Great blog! I like how everything is well written. I will be back to check for new posts. Thanks!!
Comment by Erminia Dulin — November 13, 2010 @ 3:20 am
Jen, I know you’re excited to be getting your new BAHA screw in 3 weeks; and switch-on in 9 weeks!
Also, let us know if your audie will give you your BAHA-3 BP-100 instrument now, with a headband (like Julian has), so you can start hearing better now, instead of waiting around.
Comment by Supervisor — January 22, 2011 @ 12:55 pm
Dan, would like to know what your connection to hearing loss and hearing aids is. I see from your Facebook profile that you are an electrical engineer, so can’t quite put the background puzzle together. Fill me in, if you would. Thanks.
Comment by Susan Elcox — March 16, 2011 @ 5:31 pm
Hi Susan! Yes, I’m an Electrical Engineer. In 1980, while out on a co-op quarter from Georgia Tech, my day job was at RCA-Camden in Government Communications Systems; and on nights & weekends I was moonlighting for Star Tech Sound as a loudspeaker and audio engineer. That is when I severely damaged my hearing — even though I was wearing good hearing protection.
Five years later, I went to get hearing aids, and the audiologist screwed it up so badly, it led me to become a hearing aid dispensing engineer. I exited the business in 1995, in no small part to my hearing loss; but I’m in the process of licensing again. Also, if everything goes well, it’s back to school for a doctorate in audiology — Either an AuD or PhD (haven’t decided yet)~
Comment by Supervisor — March 21, 2011 @ 2:18 am
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audiologist
Comment by audiologist — June 16, 2011 @ 5:55 am
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hearing clinics
Comment by hearing clinics — June 27, 2011 @ 7:10 am
Hi there, I have just been diagnosed (today in fact) with a reverse sloping hearing loss, FINALLY something after years of Doctors looking at my test results and saying “that is so unusual” a name to go with it. I have been dealing with not hearing in crowds,in rooms with the tv on or in cars. My doctor recommended this sight, I had no idea there were others like me and that this was so rare. there really is not much information out there, perhaps I can learn from you all. I have a copy of my recent test and I can scan it and put it up if anyone is interested, I really can’t tell what the heck it means but someone here may be able to tell me in laymans terms
looking forward to hearing from you all
Thanks
Natalie
Comment by Natalie — June 27, 2012 @ 8:29 pm
Hi Natalie! I happen to have a reverse slope hearing loss myself; and in fact am working on a new article on this.
First off, there are now some good resources for this rare type of hearing loss — Here are four:
• The Reverse Slope Hearing Loss group on Facebook is where most of the discussions are taking place among both people who have this type of deafness, and also a group of hearing care professionals;
• The Reverse Slope Hearing Loss (RSHL) Yahoo group and mailing list, which is moderated by Neil Bauman, PhD;
• Dr Bauman has an excellent article which explains what we go through: The Bizarre World of Extreme Reverse-Slope (or Low Frequency) Hearing Loss (abridged) , which describes what we experience every day;
• Programming hearing aids for reverse slope SNHL is counter-intuitive, so if you are a Hearing Care Professional and use Auto-Fit in Widex Compass, Starkey Inspire, ReSound Aventa, etc, you will automatically get a disastrously wrong fit as the DSL, NAL, POGO & other fitting prescriptions are .NOT. designed to take into account Upward Spread Of Masking, manifest as providing inadequate high frequency amplification. Instead, follow Dr Baumans’ extensive Amplification for Reverse-Slope (or Low Frequency) Losses guide, which will walk you through the fitting process. If you also MAP cochlear implants, this will make sense as you basically want to optimize for speech discrimination in noise.
Dan Schwartz,
Editor
Comment by Dan Schwartz — July 2, 2012 @ 5:46 pm