Comments on: Community-Engaged Learning: A Promising New Pathway in Audiology Student Education

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:03:27 +0000

A further thought: way back, I took part in a Listening Skills / Additional Needs session, about 15 of us, mostly working in social care of some kind.
The leader had us wear blurry spectacles and earplugs, then encouraged us to just carry on. Participants, maybe a third of us, lost our usual ‘professional’ cool and began shouting. One even threw a duster at the leader!

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:53:23 +0000

Yes, more engagement with users, away from the in-clinic constraints, would I am sure enhance audiology training and even hearing device design. It’s still a matter of luck, I think, whether one arrives at a fit that will cater for both speech and music. It was some years before I learned that even a basic BTE will have a user-switch for those – and that we might have to ask for its activation!
Along came smarter aids, with auto adaptation to conditions. Not offered by my local UK national health clinic, so I look forward to that as a forum topic sometime!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:24:56 +0000