As my hearing loss progressed, I was compelled to accept my hearing aids. Still, insecurities lingered. While never short on friends, I subconsciously subdued self-expression, convinced that hearing loss somehow mutes personality.
Audiology has seen remarkable advancements in recent years, thanks to groundbreaking technologies that enhance diagnostic precision, improving hearing aid performance, and personalized patient care.
In 1970 I was diagnosed as profoundly deaf. I was 11 months old. I then began training at the McGill University Program, followed by Kindergarten at the Montreal Oral School for the Deaf (MOSD).
However, many people’s hearing loss is too severe to be remediated with hearing aids and they may require cochlear implantation (CI).
My hearing loss journey started at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport 10 years ago. I was walking through the corridors of the international terminal after a business trip to the US when my boss looked at me and said, “you should really do something about that.”
Over the past years, we have seen amazing and rather scary improvements in technology, especially in the development of artificial intelligence. When people first heard the term “Artificial Intelligence”, the only thing some of us could think of was
“Skynet”. I know, I know! I am a little bit of a geek; “Terminator 1 & 2” was one of the love languages between my dad and me.
Community Health Workers is a broad term which describes a person who shares similar traits and/or lived experiences with patients accessing care in their community.
Social prescription (SP) has been around since the 1990s in the United Kingdom. It was ideated as a means to address the issues of loneliness and social isolation pervading in the senior population
