In this Hearing Horizons podcast episode, Hearing Review Chief Editor Melanie Hamilton-Basich talks with Bec Bennett, PhD, a clinical and research audiologist at National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney, Australia, to talk about a program she and her team developed to help audiologists incorporate talking to patients about mental well-being into their practice.

Bec Bennett, BSc (Hons), MAud, MBus, Grad Dip Couns, PhD, is a clinical audiologist and senior research audiologist at National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney, Australia, and an adjunct senior research fellow at Ear Science Institute Australia and the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on adult audiological rehabilitation, teleaudiology service delivery, and the social and emotional impacts of hearing loss. She is a NHMRC Investigator Fellow and a director of the board, Audiology Australia.

Find out more about the research that was used to develop the AIMER framework:

A Framework to Provide Mental Health Support for Hearing Loss

In this episode of the Hearing Horizons podcast, The Hearing Review Chief Editor Melanie Hamilton-Basich is joined by Stephanie Czuhajewski, MPH, executive director of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology, who shares her thoughts on the results of the new Synchrony “Hearing Health & Loss Prevention” study focused on what consumers ages 18-55 think about hearing loss and hearing care. They discuss the different reasons why more younger people don’t seek out hearing care and how audiologists and other HCPs could use insights from the study to better understand and help patients.

In this episode of the Hearing Horizons podcast, The Hearing Review’s Chief Editor Melanie Hamilton-Basich is joined by audiologist and author Duncan Floyd to talk about why the Optimized Method of masking can be so helpful in audiometry. They discuss what the method is, when to use it, and why he thinks more hearing care professionals should make use of it in their practice.

Duncan Floyd, MSc AuD, Reg. Audiologist, has been an audiologist for almost 30 years and has practiced in Canada, China, and the USA. He has clinical experience with both pediatric and adult caseloads and has worked in an ENT environment for over 20 years. For over a decade, Duncan was the clinical coordinator for audiology and a lecturer at Dalhousie University’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in his home province of Nova Scotia, Canada. He currently works in Halifax, Nova Scotia in an ENT clinic, is an adjunct professor at Dalhousie teaching acoustic immittance measures, and is co-owner of Accessible Hearing Solutions. He is author of The Masking Handbook (for Audiometry).