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Recognizing the Benefits of Research

This year ASHA’s annual convention in Denver held over 14,000 SLPs and audiologists, as well as many JMU CSD faculty and a few graduate students. One graduate student who had the honor of attending the conference this year, Lauren Maher, is a first year speech-language pathology Masters student and Double Duke. Lauren flew to Denver to hear presentations, meet other professionals in the field, and present her research, Quality of Life Indices in Brain Injury: A Pilot Investigation. She first got involved in research during her time in the JMU Honors Program, which requires all students to complete a thesis project. For her thesis, she worked with Dr. O’Donoghue on creating an analog scale for people who have sustained a brain injury so that they could self-report their quality of life. Her research has brought her to two conferences, got her a paid ticket and hotel room in Denver for ASHA, and most importantly provided her with knowledge and experiences that will aid her in her futu

Johnny Depp: Actor, Musician, and....Hearing aid fitter?

At a music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Johnny Depp and his Hollywood Vampire band mates, Alice Cooper and Joe Perry, delivered more than just the gift of music; they also gave the gift of sound. The artists along with the Starkey Hearing Foundation helped fit customized hearing devices for over two hundred people while on tour. The people who received the devices varied in age, and their hearing losses varied from developmental to acquired. The musicians described the experience as moving, and the clients they served were delighted with their new devices. The Starkey Hearing Foundation holds events all over the world in order to give hearing aids to those in need. They've donated 1.6 million hearing aids to people in over 100 countries. There are many humanitarian foundations that deliver hearing devices to individuals in third world countries. One of our very own professors, Dr. Ryals, worked towards a cause similar to this in Kenya with HEARt of the Village, a non-profit grou

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Football Season is here, so make sure you protect those ears! For many the arrival of the crisp and beautiful autumn season brings the changing color of the leaves, pumpkin flavored everything, and of course the start of an exciting football season! For many football fans supporting their favorite team may involve screaming their lungs out, along with thousands of other fans. In addition some fans may have seats close to a loudspeaker or a pep band. As you can imagine or may have experienced yourself football games can get quite loud, even dangerously loud. The average crowd noise at an NFL football game is 80-90 decibels and reached a world record breaking level of 137 decibels last December at the Seattle Seahawks game. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health more than 15 minutes of exposure to 100 decibels can be damaging to adults and even more so to children. Children have smaller ears and the sound pressure level entering the ear is greater. Ther
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