Table of Contents
Hearing Protection
Mayes, J.L. (Winter 2026). Safe sound science. Hearing Health Magazine: The Safe Listening Issue, Vol 42 (1), 14-15.
Mayes, J.L. (Dec 9, 2025). Safe Sound Science. Hearing Health Foundation Blog.
Mayes, J.L. (Winter, 2020). Building your own hearing protection toolkit. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association, 45:3, 46-47.
Mayes, J.L. (2022). Protecting hearing for life. Communique, Speech-Language & Audiology Canada.
Hyperacusis & Tinnitus Toolbox
Mayes, J.L. (Spring, 2025). When the patient becomes the clinician: Rethinking care for sound hypersensitivity. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association, 50(1), 14-17.
Mayes, J.L. (Spring, 2022). What tinnitus taught me. Hearing Health Magazine, Hearing Health Foundation, 12-13.
Mayes, J.L. (Summer, 2021). Tinnitus Q & A: Tinnitus can be unsettling but is seldom a symptom of serious disease. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association, 46(2), 30-31.
Mayes, J.L. (2020). When hearing aids don’t work. Originally published at silencity.com.
Soundproofist (2019). Tinnitus, hyperacusis, and noise: a podcast interview with audiologist Jan L. Mayes.
Mayes, J.L. (Spring, 2019). Community noise, hearing health, and communication limits. Originally published in The Right to Quiet Society NoiseLetter.
Mayes, J.L. (Spring, 2018). Noise discrimination against people with hearing loss, tinnitus, and hyperacusis. Originally published in The Right to Quiet Society NoiseLetter.
Mayes, J.L. (Winter, 2011). My 25th Tinnitus Anniversary. Communique. Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists, 14.
Mayes, J. L. (Spring 2011). Tinnitus Triage. Communique. Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists, 22-23.
Born, D. (2010). A Q & A Session with J.L. Mayes. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association, 25; 3, 14-15.
Mayes, J.L. (2011). Tinnitus Treatment Triage—Filling the Gap Between ENT and TRT [Poster presentation]. BC Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Conference.
Personal Listening & Screen Time Risks
Mayes, J.L. (Winter 2026). Safe sound science. Hearing Health Magazine: The Safe Listening Issue, Vol 42 (1), 14-15.
Mayes, J.L. (Winter, 2024). Building balanced screen time for today’s tech savvy youth. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association. 49(3), 30-33.
How long should kids be on screens while at school? (2024, July 5). 1news.co.nz.
Screen time: New limits needed in New Zealand schools, experts say. (2024). The New Zealand Herald.
Recommendations for the use of digital technologies: schools, kura and early childhood education. (2024). The Pediatric Society of New Zealand.
Cullen, J., Muntz, A., Marsh, S., Simmonds, L., Mayes, J., O’Neill, K., & Duncan, S. (2024). Impacts of digital technologies on child and adolescent health: recommendations for safer screen use in educational settings. New Zealand Medical Journal, 137(1958), 9-13. https://doi.org/10.26635/6965.6565.
Cullen, J., Müntz, A., Marsh, S., Simmonds, L., Mayes, J., O’Neill, K., & Duncan, S. (2024). Impact of digital technologies on health and wellbeing of children and adolescents: A narrative review. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 52(1), 62–77. https://doi.org/10.15619/nzjp.v52i1.364
Mayes, J.L. (Summer, 2021). The danger in headphones. Hearing Health, Hearing Health Foundation, 22-24.
Fink, D. & Mayes, J.L. (2021). Curbside consultation: Making recommendations to reduce noise exposure. American Family Physician. 103(1):57-59.
Mayes, J.L. & Fink, D. (2021). Personal audio systems unsafe at any sound. The Hearing Journal, 74(12), 36-38.
doi: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000804864.64799.d3
Children’s headphones put them at risk of early-onset hearing loss, experts say. (July 7, 2021). Healthy Hearing.
Experts call for new standards to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in younger generations. (July 3, 2021). American Academy of Audiology.
How headphones, earbuds can slowly harm your hearing over time. (June 14, 2021). Healthline.com.
Headphones, earbuds impact younger generations’ future audio health. (June 10, 2021). Acoustical Society of America.
Fink, D. & Mayes, J.L. (2021). Unsafe at any sound: Hearing loss and tinnitus in personal audio system users. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 43, 040003; doi: 10.1121/2.0001452
Preventing Noise Damage to Hearing Health
Mayes, J.L. (Winter 2026). Safe sound science. Hearing Health Magazine: The Safe Listening Issue, Vol 42 (1), 14-15.
Summary noise bylaw comparison: City of Vancouver versus North Vancouver (2024, July 5). City Hall Watch, Vancouver Noise Task Force.
Mayes, J.L. (Winter, 2022). This is your brain on noise. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association, 47(3), 46-47.
Mayes, J.L. (2017-2022). Audiology and noise science reporter for The Quiet Coalition.
Mayes, J.L. (June 30, 2022). If only we could see the noise exposure. Hearing Health Foundation. [Republished Spring, 2022 Tinnitus Today article: If only we could see the damage of noise exposure.]
Mayes, J.L. (Spring, 2022). If only we could see the damage of noise exposure. Tinnitus Today, American Tinnitus Association, 57-59.
How loud is too loud? (2022). Science News for Students.
Fink, D. & Mayes, J.L. (2021). Too loud: Noise exposure in everyday life is causing hearing loss. The Hearing Journal, 74(10), 9-10. doi: 10.1097/01.HJ.0000795648.82072.99
Fink, D. & Mayes, J.L. (2021). Too loud! Non-occupational noise exposure causes hearing loss. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 43, 040002; doi: 10.1121/2.0001436
Future cars may offer personal sound zones-no earphones needed. (Nov 15, 2021). Science News for Students.
Mayes, J. L. (2019). Urban noise levels are high enough to damage auditory sensorineural health. Sound and the Healthy City, special issue of the Cities and Health Journal, Routlegdge. DOI 10.1080/23748834.2019.1577204.
City noise, hearing health, and communication. Kudos plain language summary of Mayes, J. L. (2019) in Sound and the Healthy City.