Are you more of an eclectic inventor or a dedicated scientist? Answer the questions below. Then, find out which of history’s most famous audiologists you most closely resemble.
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Where are you from?
The East Coast
The South
Overseas – your parents' career took you to other countries
The Midwest
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What's your ideal work setting?
Medical facility like a hospital
Your own business – you have the entrepreneurial spirit!
Teaching and researching at a university
Working with children
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What's your passion project?
The physiology of the inner ear, investigating how neurological impulses are transmitted to the brain.
So many things! Hearing, cars, the military, saving lives, starting businesses. Who can pick!?
Advocating hearing loss as a public health concern.
Early identification and intervention of hearing loss.
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How did you get started in your career?
In a research lab.
As quickly as possible! You were already mapping out your private practice sound booth before finishing school.
In the VA.
Testing babies and young children.
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Which of the following best describes your personality?
You are friendly, witty and admired for your ability to clearly articulate abstract ideas.
You have lots of ideas and bounce from project to project.
You are a person of very few words, but people listen closely when you speak.
You are adventurous and take life by the horns.
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What would you be if you weren't an audiologist?
Neurologist. I'm fascinated by how the brain works.
Engineer
Speech-language pathologist
Athlete
Audiology Pioneers
Hallowell Davis
A central figure in the development of audiology.
Miller Reese Hutchinson
Best known for inventing the modern electric hearing aid.
Raymond Carhart
Often known as the father of audiology.
Marion Downs
Trailblazing audiologist whose groundbreaking work transformed the early detection of hearing loss in infants.