Archive for the ‘Professional Story’ Category

Shelly Ash: Becoming a Pediatric Cochlear Implant Audiologist

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Shelly Ash is a cochlear implant audiologist at All Children’s Hospital in Florida.  She shares her story about why she become an audiologist and her experiences in being an audiologist. Growing up, I didn’t know there was a profession called Audiology.  Although there was a residential school for the deaf in a nearby town, I [...]

Getting Off the Fence: My Story by Lori Murphy

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Lori Murphy is a teacher of the deaf who is also a cochlear implant recipient. She also worked with Krista Donaldson, one of the first children in Canada to receive a cochlear implant. The grass is always suppose to be greener on the other side of the fence. Which side is that when you are [...]

Mark Campbell’s Story as Both a Cochlear Implant Recipient and Audiologist

Sunday, June 12th, 2011

Mark Campbell is both a bilateral cochlear implant recipient and a cochlear implant audiologist at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. I interviewed him to hear his story of being both a cochlear implant recipient and audiologist. What is the cause of your hearing loss? How did you or your parents first learn about [...]

AG Bell 2010: Friday Short Course

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

These articles are reposted from the reports I did for the AG Bell Convention 2010′s Official Blog.  I am reposting them here for readers who did not see them “live” during the Convention and so that they will be preserved on this site for future CIO readers.  Enjoy! Adults Aren’t Just Big Babies: Guiding and [...]

Christine Evans, speech-language pathologist and aural habilitation specialist

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

The hearing loss community is so unbelievably small!  There is a real sense of six degrees of separation.  Last Tuesday, I met Monica, the blogger of Speak Up, as she was in my hometown for EDHI conference.  We went out to dinner with a speech-pathologist named Christine Evans who was also attending the EDHI conference.  [...]