Welcome back to the All About Audiology podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Lilach Saperstein.
Today’s episode is all about audiology equipment. Now hear me out! I know this might not sound like the most fascinating topic in the world but I’m telling you, it is so, so important and interesting to learn about the equipment that we use and how we use it to get information about hearing, about how our ears work and which part of our ear has different things going on with it. And you know, when you’re a parent and you’re bringing your kid to the audiologist, they’re not just shaking a rattle and seeing if the kid responds. That might be the first step to just see if there’s any kind of gross awareness. But we actually have very precise and very complicated and technical ways that we’re checking different parts of the auditory pathway in order to get information about your kids’ hearing, or about your own hearing for that matter.
So, here’s the conversation that I had with Julie Renshaw, an experienced audiologist who shared with us not only the important role of the equipment, but absolutely the necessary understanding that audiologists need to have in order to understand what that equipment can do and what the results mean and being able to interpret all of that. So, I think this interview, like most of the episodes here, are for both groups of audiences that are listening. Many of you are students, students of audiology, of speech pathology, of communication disorders and I think there is a lot in this episode that you’ll find really relevant to your studies and to the practice of our profession.
It’s also specifically geared for families who are dealing with this, who have been on the side of the appointments where you are watching your kid get stickers all over their forehead. So, we talk about that in the interview and I really think that it’s going to bring you some comfort and some value to know that it’s not a weegie board but it’s an ABR. We explain what all that equipment means. So, I hope you’ll love this episode as much as I enjoyed talking with Julie.
Thank you so much for being a listener to the All About Audiology podcast.
Let’s jump right into it!
Welcome to the All About Audiology podcast. I’m your host, Dr. Lilach Saperstein and today we’re talking all about instrumentation. It might sound a little bit boring and you might be thinking, ‘Why do I care about the equipment used at my audiology appointment?’. But wait, you’re in for a surprise! It’s actually very interesting. At least I think so.
I also have someone very special with us today who is very experienced, has a lot of knowledge to share with us about instrumentation. Julie Renshaw is going to tell us why this is so important for our practice. I hope we have listening today, parents and audiology students and people with hearing loss. That runs a gamut of the audience and I think everyone can benefit from the conversation we’re going to be having.
LS: “Welcome Julie!”
JR: “Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.”
LS: “Why don’t you tell us a little bit about your background and your current position.”
JR: “I’m a clinical audiologist for 37 years. I worked for Riley Children’s Hospital for about 20 years of that. So, I was involved in all different aspects of audiology as part of my role there.
