I miss Wonderlab so much!

Wow! I have an appointment with my pulmonologist Monday morning. He doesn’t even have a Covid Vaccine for me yet!

there are absolutely speakers of American English who would ask you to lean forward then smack you with a cue card for suggesting that “each other” Isn’t perfectly grammatical in this context (eg Appalachian, ozark, most midland). Ultimately, choice prob says more about your speaker than listener

Ha! Winnifred (one of my longtime kitty friends) approves of Hal’s handiwork.

Poster session for the 2025 Boys Town National Research Hospital Pediatric Audiology Translational Research (PAT) Conference

Drs. Tiana Cowan, Ryan McCreery, and Lori Leibold present a new tool, the Children’s English and Spanish Speech Recognition (ChEgSS) test which will soon be available to facilitate speech perception testing with bilingual children.

Dr. Dawna Lewis reviews evidence for remote microphone (RM) use with children whose hearing is audio-metrically typical but who have other special listening needs.

Our next speaker, Dr. Kathryn Wiseman, tackled the challenging question of when to transition a pediatric hearing aid user into cochlear implant candidate.

PAT Conference keynote speaker Dr. Susan Scollie from @westernuwin.bsky.social presents a historical review of the major advances in pediatric hearing aid fitting and highlights gaps that need to be addressed for future research.

We open with a tribute to the conference’s namesake, the late Dr. Pat Stelmachowicz, who was a pioneer in conducting pediatric hearing research specifically to inform clinical practice.