Category: Safer Personal Listening

• Digital Tech Dangers: Screen Time & Personal Listening

  My latest Safe Sound Science with Granny Jan series is on the Dangers of screen time for children and teens at home and school. Now on YouTube and TikTok, I…

  

• Ministry of Education Makes Recommendations on Student Screen Time and Use of Digital Devices

  In New Zealand, the Ministry of Education has updated their website to address health and safety management of digital device use by staff and students. This was done in consultation…

  

• Building Balanced Screen Time for Today’s Tech-Savvy Youth

  I’m happy to share that my new article was published in the Winter 2024 issue of Tinnitus Today. The focus is nurturing healthy digital habits among today’s youth. Children and…

  

• Screen Time and Health Risks in Children and Teens

  I am a co-author of a new study, along with lead author Julie Cullen, on the impact of digital technologies on health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. Our study…

  

• Safer Personal Listening Guidelines

  If ears bled from unsafe personal listening with headphones or earbuds, maybe there would be mandatory manufacturing safety standards to better protect public health. Imagine riding a 10 speed bike,…

  

• Teaching Children and Teens about Safer Personal Listening

  There are many causes of early childhood or teen onset hearing loss, tinnitus, and/or hyperacusis (decreased sound tolerance). Unlike other causes, early noise damage to hearing health is entirely preventable.…

  

• This is Your Brain on Noise

  It is generally accepted that loud and very loud noise exposures can cause hearing loss. When I first read Dr. J.J. Eggermont’s book Noise and the Brain, I was horrified.…

  

• If Ears Bled from Everyday Noise Exposures

  The image for this post was a graphic for a hearing health shock campaign I planned in 2017. I wanted to raise awareness about noise risk from common everyday sound…

  

• If Only We Could See the Damage of Noise Exposure

  I was very honoured to have my article featured in Tinnitus Today, Spring 2022 issue. I discuss science from my 2021 papers published in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, co-authored…

  

• Personal Listening Systems are Likely Unsafe at Any Sound

  I was excited to have a second paper published in The Hearing Journal, co-authored with Dr. Daniel Fink of The Quiet Coalition. We’re trying to raise awareness about personal listening…

  

• The Danger in Headphones

  I was honoured to be included in the Hearing Health Foundation Summer 2021 Entertainment issue. My article is on the danger in headphones (and earbuds).  It includes tips on how…

  

• Too Loud Article in The Hearing Journal

  I was very excited to have an article published in The Hearing Journal. The title is Too loud: Noise exposure in everyday life is causing hearing loss. I co-authored this…

  

• Unsafe at any Sound: Hearing Loss and Tinnitus in Personal Audio System Users

  This is the second of two papers I co-wrote with my colleague Dr. Daniel Fink of The Quiet Coalition. It was accepted in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics and is…

  

• Too Loud: Nonoccupational Noise Exposure Causes Hearing Loss

  In July, my colleague Dr. Daniel Fink and I had two papers accepted for publication in Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Both papers are open access and free to share.…

  

• Personal Audio System Use Can Harm Audio Health

  Dr. Daniel Fink and I presented our talk titled Personal Audio System Use Can Harm Auditory Health at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. It was presentation…

  

• Personal Listening Case Scenario in American Family Physician Journal

  I was honoured to co-author this case scenario with Dr. Daniel Fink of The Quiet Coalition. The clinical topic is on making recommendations to patients on how to lower personal…