Two Big Fish
Every year I head down to the Texas coast for an annual fishing trip with my extended family. Of course, it is as much about the drive down to the coast with my Dad and visiting with my relatives as it is about fishing. As my Uncle Dan would say, "Are you out there fishing, or are you catching?" We are mostly bay fishing for Redfish and if you are lucky, you catch your limit of two "big fish". That is, two Redfish that are over the legal limit of 28 inches.
This month, we have lots of great topics, but we have landed two "big fish" on AudiologyOnline. These are two areas that have the potential to have a huge impact on patient care and hearing aids, AARP and The Internet.
AARP
Many of you may have already heard that AARP will be working with HearUSA to provide a national hearing aid program. As with things like this there were many questions about how this will be implemented. AudiologyOnline was the first to sit down with Stephen Hansbrough, CEO of HearUSA find out more about this new program.
The Internet
As the world's first, self-proclaimed, "Cyberaudiologist", I believe that it is not a matter of if the Internet will change our profession and patient care, but when. I have been speaking on this topic for the past 3 years and have taken everything from my 1-2 hour talk and condensed it into a paper, Ten Million Reasons to Think About the Internet, Marketing and Your Website.
Contributors
All of that said we have some great papers, submitted by our contributors. Take a look at the following, many are eligible for CEUs:
Ted Venema, Ph.D., Common Clinical Encounters;But Do We Really Know Them?
John Greer Clark, Ph.D., Listening from the Heart: Improving Connections with our Patients
Josef Chalupper, Ph.D. & Robert Kasanmascheff, Maximizing Speech Intelligibility for Open Canal Fittings
Brian Taylor, Au.D., Audiologic Predictors of Real-World Hearing Aid Success: An Evidence-Based Review
Around the Web in 60 Seconds
Wonder how the rest of the world looks at the topics of audiology, hearing loss and hearing aids? The current edition of "Around the Web" (ATW) includes: Birds sing with accents, Mind altering sounds resurface, Cockatoo moves to beat of music, Meet a gal named "deci-'Belle" and Sedona Vortex helps tinnitus. Read about these and other stories in the latest edition of ATW.
Until Next Month
Please be sure to take the time to view the additional AO news and information links listed to the right of this email and on our home page, and as always, thanks for reading.
Best regards,
Paul Dybala, Ph.D. - Audiologist
President & Editor-in-Chief, Audiology Online
