CONTRIBUTIONS OF AUDIOLOGY TO FENESTRATION SURGERY: Including a Formula for the Precise Prediction of the Hearing Result

Abstract

AUDIOLOGY is a new word coined in 1945 at approximately the same moment by Canfield of Yale University¹and Carhart of Northwestern University. It is defined as "the science of hearing," and an audiologist, as the term is generally used in the United States, is a physician who has pursued graduate studies in hearing and whose main interest is in the evaluative and rehabilitative aspects of hearing problems. The first department of audiology in a university was established in 1946, when the older Department of Speech Reeducation of the School of Speech at Northwestern University was renamed the "Department of Speech Correction and Audiology." The addition of the name "audiology" signified the broadening interest in the mechanics of sound and hearing as a vital factor in the development and use of speech. In 1947 the Department of Speech and Audiology of the School of Speech joined with the Department