Virginia Ramachandran, AuD, an audiologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, and president-elect of the Michigan Academy of Audiology. She is coauthor of Basic Audiometry Learning Manual (Plural) and an adjunct professor and clinical education coordinator at the audiology program in the department of communication sciences and disorders at Wayne State University, also in Detroit.
For most people, age-related hearing loss, also known as presbycusis, happens so slowly that they don’t notice it at first.…