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- August 20, 2018 (Read full article)
- March 3, 2017NCA researchers using the Periscope Live Video-Streaming App to connect with more people about our research. (Read full article)
- September 12, 2016Join us for a public lecture by Dr. Richard Seewald and learn about how Hear the World Foundation provides high-quality hearing health care services to children. (Read full article)
- May 6, 2016London high school students can impress their teachers and friends with easy hearing science tricks and facts after a hands-on hearing workshop on TD Discovery Days. (Read full article)
- April 25, 2016Partnerships are at the core of research. Solving hearing problems needs the interdisciplinary teams of research and industry to effectively support millions of people around the world who have hearing loss. (Read full article)
- March 17, 2016Jonathan Vaisberg, PhD student at the National Centre for Audiology, teamed up with CHRW to talk about hearing aids, music, and good ear health during March’s International Listening Awareness Month. Listen to the full podcast. (Read full article)
- March 16, 2016NCA audiology students bring hearing health to adults in the London community (Read full article)
- March 2, 2016Shh. Taco Bell Canada's Cheetos Crunch Wrap Slider commercial features the NCA's anechoic chamber. (Read full article)
- February 25, 2016 Audiology students are part of a team who won the top award to develop software that will help medical students train on sick ears. (Read full article)
- January 28, 2016Mathias Dietz is exploring ways to develop cochlear implants that, when placed in each ear, ‘talk’ to each other and achieve true binaural hearing for the user. (Read full article)
- November 4, 2015Grade 9 students participated in two hands-on workshops to help assess hearing during the national program, Take Your Kids to Work Day. This annual program encourages parents and family friends to bring their children to work because it helps youth make connections between school and future life opportunities. (Read full article)
- October 22, 2015A project by Western University audiology students has won a national inter-university competition awarded by the Canadian Academy of Audiology. (Read full article)
- October 20, 2015We are proud of our hearing science students who research with us at the National Centre for Audiology. Meet Victoria (Tori) Stone who earned her clinical master's degree in audiology, researched with Dr. Purcell at the NCA, and is completing her final clinical placement in Toronto. Tori is working at a rehabilitation facility for adults and seniors, but our program and world-class research centre provides the foundations for success in all fields of audiology. Our graduates are leaders as clinicians, educators and researchers. (Read full article)
- May 21, 2015On Monday, May 25 at 11:30am, the National Centre for Audiology is proud to welcome guest lecturer Dr. Michael Akeroyd, Director of the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing Research (IHR) at The University of Nottingham. His talks will focus on Continuous Speech and the Problem of Measuring Moment-by-Moment Speech Identification, and The Just Noticeable Difference for Speech to Noise Ratio. (Read full article)
- May 1, 2015High school students participate in a hands-on workshop to learn about sound localization at the National Centre for Audiology, one of many events at the annual TD Discovery Day’s in Health Sciences organized by the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Western University. (Read full article)
- April 24, 2015Improving outcomes through amplification for children with hearing loss is one of the themes participants will explore at an upcoming guest lecture by Richard Seewald, Professor Emeritus, National Centre for Audiology, at the Sound Intuition’s Warren Estabrooks Speaker Series on April 24, 2015. (Read full article)
- March 25. 2015Research from our National Centre for Audiology was well represented at the Faculty of Health Sciences 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition and poster presentation. (Read full article)
- February 26, 2015Recreational noise-induced hearing loss is a rising concern for youth and teenagers, and children’s activities may place them more at risk. (Read full article)
- January 23, 2015Prolonged periods of deafness, from a young age, are known to alter processing in the auditory system. (Read full article)
- November 3, 2015Ten years ago, Richard Seewald, PhD, collaborated with pediatric audiology program director, Patricia Roush, AuD, on a video designed to demonstrate evidence-based pediatric hearing aid fitting practices. Three of the youth - who appeared as babies in the video - surprised Seewald during an award ceremony. More than a moving story, they spoke about the importance of their hearing aids and cochlear implants – representing the communication possibilities when infants receive world-class pediatric audiology care. (Read full article)
- January 21, 2015Chronic tinnitus is believed to affect between 10-15% of adults or 360,000 Canadians. Tinnitus can be more than ringing-in-the ears. (Read full article)
- October 23, 2015Susan Scollie received WORLDiscoveries' inaugural Innovator of the Year award 2015 for the DSL Method. (Read full article)
- December 1, 2014First year clinical audiology students participated in their first poster presentation – a popular forum to give a short talk about their research. It’s part of Dr. Sheila Moodie’s professional practice course. (Read full article)
- June 19, 2014NCA researchers exchanged knowledge about emerging hearing technologies with 700 delegates representing 60 countries at the first-ever HEaring Across the Lifespan conference in Italy from June 5-7, 2014. (Read full article)
- May 9, 2014An intimate cluster of high school students huddle around an audiometer at the Child Amplification Lab, National Centre for Audiology. The students are using the equipment to simulate an adult hearing test in an interactive workshop led by Brittany Schuett, who is completing her Masters degree in audiology. Inside the sound booth, a student is alert, anticipating a sound. Outside the booth, her peers present the test signals and await her reaction. She hears the sound, the audiometer registers her response, and everyone laughs. (Read full article)
- April 23, 2015Highschool students will beat the drum of hearing science during interactive workshops led by leading researchers during TD’s Discovery Days, a career exploration initiative in medicine and health sciences. Academics and professionals will share their passion for audiology at the National Centre for Audiology, Western University, at Elborn College on Friday, May 2, 2014. (Read full article)
- A university-industry partnership ensures the hearing impaired get the best care and service (Read full article)
- Canada's university campuses, research centres and hospitals are receiving funding from the Government of Canada for advanced research infrastructure, helping them continue to compete in today's global knowledge economy. (Read full article)
- Media artist Chris Myhr from the Department of Visual Arts will be presenting a new work entitled Sounding Waters (Tama River, Tokyo) in the Beltone anechoic chamber at the National Centre for Audiology (Read full article)
