There is an annual conference called TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), where some of the brightest minds in literally everything, come together once a year to share ideas and provide inspiration. It is invitation only, but luckily, they post most of the talks online after the event. There is a presentation from the most recent conference in February 2009 by Aimee Mullins about her prosthetic legs. We initially posted a link to this video on the AudiologyOnline Editor's Facebook Profile, but I also wanted to share it with all of you via this email as well.
This is a non-optional step - stop what you are doing, and take 10 min to view this video www.ted.com/index.php/talks/. Why? We have all said that "one day" technology will enable people with hearing loss to hear better than people with normal hearing. Aimee Mullins has actually transformed her disability to an advantage over many of us who have two perfectly good legs. Aimee's short talk really inspired me when I think about what we do as clinicians on a regular basis to help people with hearing loss. I hope it does the same for you.
Inspiration From Our Contributing Experts
We have several items from our Contributing Experts that I think are quite inspiring on their own that I wanted to share as well. :-)
- An Interview with Jack Katz, Ph.D., with our Managing Editor, Dr. Carolyn Smaka, is a discussion on APD therapy and an upcoming series of Live eSeminars on July 31, August 7 and August 14 of this year.
- Resume Redux - Tips for Tough Times by Martie Ormsby and Carolyn Smaka, Au.D., gives advice on how to put your "best foot forward" when updating your resume.
- A correction from my last email. As we had a "spell checker gone awry" there was a feature item by Don Schum, Ph.D., from Oticon, which resulted in the "h" being removed from a single instance of Dr. Schum's last name. I do not in the least think of Don or his intellect as anything close to "A filmy layer of extraneous or impure matter that forms on or rises to the surface of a liquid or body of water." I had apologized to Don, but the situation caused me to re-read his excellent CEU eligible paper on "Motivating the Older Patient to Take Action" and wanted to mention it again. If you have not already, take a look at this information as it challenges you to think about our responsibilities in helping our presbycusic patients. FYI, we also have a Recorded Course on the same topic by Dr. Schum that is also CEU eligible.
Thanks for reading and I would also like to encourage you to peruse our monthly Around The Web that includes meeting nurse iPhone, the new LipReader novel, trends in beautiful prosthetics (including hearing aids!!), safe ear scratchers and many more! Take a look at how the rest of the world views our profession, it is always interesting.
Also, please be sure to view the content links on the right to see more about what is going on at AudiologyOnline.
Best regards,
Paul Dybala, Ph.D. - Audiologist
President & Editor-in-Chief, Audiology Online
