Marshall Chasin's (Faculty) paper "Non-Auditory Effects of Environmental Noises" is the Featured Story in Canadian Audiologist, the official publication of the Canadian Academy of Audiology! Chasin's work stands out as the study of non-auditory effects of everyday environmental noises (e.g sleep disruptions and annoyances) that are not typically considered in audiology.
Chasin examines reviews done by the World Health Organization on the effects of non-auditory noise on stress and cardiovascular effects, sleep disruption patterns, cognition, adverse birth outcome issues and general annoyance. His paper summarizes and delineates the difficulties in researching non-auditory effects of everyday noises and provides insight into the conclusions from the WHO's general recommendation for dealing with non-auditory environmental noises.
This is an interesting read for all our audiologists, phoneticians and psycholinguists!
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