As a result, clinical audiology was born and formalized to assist many young and healthy individuals in need of rehabilitation. Going beyond traditional approaches to psychoacoustic research, researchers have shifted their focus to applying their understanding of hearing to address the need for speech and hearing rehabilitation for these service members. At that time, Northwestern University was already running a Re-talk Education Department. One of the graduates of this doctoral program is Dr., who is considered the grandfather of audiology. Raymond Carhart. Dr. Carhart stayed there after his dissertation and began establishing clinical methods for speech audiometry.
With this focus on improving speech understanding, the program at Northwestern University was well placed to take on the task of rehabilitating soldiers with hearing loss. Indeed, the clinic had treated more than 4,500 patients by 1944 and received support from the Veterans Administration (VA) to develop treatments for hearing impairments. With many young members having difficulty understanding speech, Dr. Carhart was instrumental in establishing the first academic audiology program at Northwestern University in 1946. This program is Dr. He has trained many founding clinicians and researchers in the field of audiology, such as James Jerger. Audiology programs are core training centers for current students and require excellent clinical instructors to ensure that future audiologists throughout their careers routinely use evidence-based practice and good clinical reasoning to achieve the best outcomes for patients.
Source
Northwestern.edu. (2019) “History.” Northwestern University
Center for Audiology, Speech, Language, and Learning (accessed August
4, 2021).
Lecturer Hilal Nur Ficil
