Hearing Health Matters: Linking Hearing Loss and the Brain

By Anita Giles MS, CCC-A AudiologistPhysicians Hearing CenterNorth Alabama ENT Associates LinkedIn is a networking site for professionals to connect, collaborate, share and learn. “The mission of LinkedIn is simple: connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful”. Networking includes looking for new opportunities to grow and learn, developing relationships with other … Continue reading Hearing Health Matters: Linking Hearing Loss and the Brain

Hearing Health Matters: Diabetes and Hearing Loss

By Anita Giles MS, CCC-A AudiologistPhysicians Hearing CenterNorth Alabama ENT Associates “When we arrive on this earth we are endowed with the most perfect, the most efficient, and the best constructed machine ever devised – our body.“—Alton Ochsner, MD Our bodies are designed to function like a machine with the brain (control center) activating motors … Continue reading Hearing Health Matters: Diabetes and Hearing Loss

Hearing Health: Dear Non-Working Ears

By Anita Giles MS, CCC-A AudiologistPhysicians Hearing Center In John Donne’s book “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions”, Meditation XVII states “No man is an island, Entire of itself”. This famous passage is about the interconnectedness of people. No person is separate and isolated from the rest. We need each other and we are stronger and better … Continue reading Hearing Health: Dear Non-Working Ears

Love Letters—From My H ear t to Your Ears—The Sequel

By Anita Giles MS, CCC-A AudiologistPhysicians Hearing CenterNorth Alabama ENT Associates Valentine’s Day is a time to express love. Couples show affection and love to their partners with gifts, experiences, and special treatment. Cards and letters declare affection and love. Remember falling in love with that special “One”? It begins with a glance; a spoken … Continue reading Love Letters—From My H ear t to Your Ears—The Sequel

9 REASONS YOUR CHILD MIGHT NEED SPEECH THERAPY

By Jan Stephens and Jennifer Vann Valley Speech TherapyE-Mail | Telephone Speech and Language Therapy involves many different types of disorders that a Speech Language Pathologist or Speech Therapist can help your child to overcome or improve upon. A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) is educated in the study of human communication, development, and its disorders. … Continue reading 9 REASONS YOUR CHILD MIGHT NEED SPEECH THERAPY