Farewell Note
To all of my friends in military audiology: This will be the last issue of Military Audiology that I will have the privilege of editing. I want to personally thank everyone who contributed to this publication over the past four years. I am fortunate to know you as colleagues, proud to recognize you as leaders in our community and honored to have you as my friends. Without your time, effort and dedication these pages would have been blank and all of our lives would have lacked the color of your exceptional talents. You are the heart and soul of our Association and I will miss you, one and all:
Theresa Schultz, Cari Sherris, Bill Monk, Dick Danielson, Linda Pierson, John Ribera, Leslie Sims, Christie Themann, Mary Cord, Walt Otto, Jim Beauchamp, Doug Ohlin, Terry Begines, Linda Simpson, Mike Zenz, Mary Hallmark, Nancy Vause, Kathy Hartmann, Bob Rogers, Jim Jerome, John Allen, Frank Weaver, Anne Shields, Lynne Henselman, Brian Walden, Laura Weiland, Rich Dennis, Marjorie Grantham, Kelly Paul, Joe Narrigan, Donna, McNeil, Tressie Waldo, Charlene Scherr, Rob Pluta
Be well, and may God bless you all.
Paul Lacroix
Aram Glorig
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dr. Aram Glorig, founder of the American Auditory Society and an internationally recognized forensic ear specialist, died June 22, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 92.
After World War II, Glorig became Director of the Audiology and Speech Correction Center, which he helped develop at Walter Reed Army Hospital. His patients were military personnel suffering hearing loss stemming from exposure to the battlefield. He also worked with manufacturers to develop smaller and more efficient hearing aids.
Glorig was named to a federal subcommittee in 1947 at the Noise Research Center and directed scientific research of job-related noise. His research was the basis for safe noise level standards established by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Posted with permission.
NHCA Ad Hoc Committee for HC Referral Criteria
Theresa Y. Schulz, USAF, BSC, Ph.D.
DoD Exec. Mgr. for Joint Service Hearing Conservation
Fellow audiologists and hearing conservationists,
I am chairing an Ad Hoc Committee for HC Referral Criteria for NHCA. The committee’s goal is to produce a professional guideline brochure with various levels of recommended referral criteria (i.e. mandatory, best practices, optional). “Mandatory” referral criteria are those mandated by OSHA or some other regulatory requirement. “Best practices” criteria will include those that the committee agrees on and “optional” criteria are those that may be a good idea but are not necessary for a successful HCP.
Please send any referral criteria for hearing conservation programs that you are aware of. I’m also looking for committee members, so if you’re interested, please call or e-mail me. Thanks, in advance, for your assistance. If I missed anybody, please forward this to any interested parties. Thanks again.
New Name for Army Infant Screening Program
By Donna McNeil
Because hearing screening programs are only as effective as the early intervention which follows, we have changed the name of our infant hearing screening program to U.S. Army Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program, to be consistent with changes now taking place throughout the country. Screening supervisors are asked to identify primary referral sources for follow-up testing, pediatric hearing aid fitting, and educational placement specific to their regions. Screening supervisors at each site have been informed of recent legislative activity in their state, but are asked to check the NCHAM website periodically for updates.