Departments
Features
To the Brain and Back: Can Stress Cause Tinnitus and Hyperacusis?
Tinnitus and hyperacusis are highly stressful conditions. People with tinnitus report higher stress levels than those without tinnitus, and stress can make tinnitus louder and more distressing. Stress reduction is often recommended for effective management of tinnitus.
Beyond Cognition: The Critical Connection Between Hearing Health and Mental Well-being in Older Adults
The relationship between hearing health and overall well-being has long been recognized within audiology, yet we are still in the process of learning the full extent of this connection as new research emerges.
What Is a Hearing Care Outcome? Rethinking Measurement Through Trust, Agency, and Identity
In audiology, we often treat outcomes as endpoints. We test, we fit, we measure, and we move on. Outcomes are usually presented as stable, objective snapshots of change. This article revisits how we define and evaluate success in hearing care.
Listening Beyond the Audiogram: A Soundscape Journey from Practice to Place
When I returned to Labrador to build a life on the Land with my family, I didn’t expect to relearn listening. But over time — with each thaw and dusk-time call of the hermit thrush — my relationship to sound began to shift. I was no longer just identifying or interpreting it; I was experiencing sound as something embodied and relational, something that tethered me to place, presence, and peace.
Striking the Right Balance: Update from the CAA Vestibular Committee – Second Edition of Vestibular Assessment & Management for Canadian Audiologists: A Scoping Review
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Michael Vekasi, AuD, R.Aud, Aud(C), FAAA provides an update on some work that the CAA Vestibular Committee has been doing, specifically the second edition of the “Vestibular Assessment & Management for Canadian Audiologists: A Scoping Review” document.
Purposeful Adaptive Responses for Successful Auditory Functioning – A Brief Review of Beechey and Naylor 2025
The new conceptual model proposed by Beechey and Naylor (2025, DOI: 10.1177/23312165251317010) represents a significant advancement in understanding auditory function by placing adaptive, purposeful behaviors at its core. This model provides meaningful implications for people with hearing loss, auditory researchers, and the practicalities of assessing auditory function both in laboratories and the real world.
From Battlefield to Homefront: How the First World War Shifted Perceptions of Deafness
The First World War marked a pivotal moment in the understanding and treatment of hearing loss and deafness. Prior to the war, deafness had been largely attributed to congenital causes. This view was influenced by a negative eugenic Darwinist ideology that associated hearing loss with genetic inferiority.
What’s In a Hearing Number? An Interview with Frank Lin, MD, PhD
Editor’s Note: Since the original publication of this interview in HearingReview.com, a new app has been developed which is available on both iOS and Android. Go to www.HearingNumber.org.
Active Transcutaneous Alternative for Patients with Conductive Hearing Loss
Columns
From the Labs to the Clinics
A few weeks back our editor-in-chief Marshall Chasin sent me a media headline proclaiming a quick fix for hearing loss, and he invited my comments.
Sound Business Sense
Dr. Robert Traynor and Dr. Brian Taylor … different people despite have many letters in common in their last name… have just come out with a new book Traynor, RM & Taylor, B. (2026). Strategic Practice Management, 4th Edition.
The Way I Hear It
A woman will put up with a lot to spend a few glorious days with her Besties at a cottage on a beautiful lake. For me, this meant taking two long flights and bracing myself for the inevitable communication barriers built into the travel-with-hearing-loss experience.
Quick Answers
Since 1988 uniform (flat attenuation) earplugs have been available for those in the audio industry and in the performing arts. With the introduction of the ER-15 musicians’ earplug from Etymotic Research (ER)
based on the work of Elmer Carlson and Mead Killion, custom made ER15 earplugs have been the mainstay in the industry. These custom-made earplugs attenuate all sounds equally between 63 Hz and 8000 Hz (but with a 3-4 dB dip in the 6000 Hz region). Music can now sound like music, only a safe and more comfortable level.
Clinic Corner
When most people think of concussions, they picture headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, or memory problems. Yet, one of the most under-recognized consequences of concussion is its impact on hearing. While the peripheral auditory system may appear healthy, many patients who sustain a mild traumatic brain injury discover that listening-something most of us take for granted-has suddenly become exhausting, confusing, or even painful.
Audiology in the Classrooms
In the early 1970s, I recall sitting in the nurse’s office, wearing a pair of headphones, and tapping a ruler on the desk every time I heard a beep. After that, there was a vision chart to read. I passed the hearing screening but failed the vision screening. Without school screening, I suspect that my vision impairment would have remained undetected for quite some time.
What’s New About Getting Older?
The reframing of the aging agenda has become a banner for Canadian strategies in research and government initiatives. Indeed, the 2023-28 Strategic Plan of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute on Aging is called Reframing Aging: Empowering Older Adults