Fingerspelling
You would think these two professors at UBC are tiny because of their names, but they are not.
Small
This is the number of audiology programs there are in Canada, including both English and Francophone programs.
What is five?
A well-known visual support on all television sets is known as this.
What is Closed Captioning?
The amount of amplification applied to the input signal.
What is gain?
This group of talking rescue animals live in Adventure Bay.
What is Paw Patrol?
An all too common accessory for the COVID-19 era
facemask
This organization in BC regulates the profession of audiology and protects the interests of the public.
The College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC.
The name of the software that helps to teach speechreading.
What is Seeing and Hearing Speech?
The squeezing of loud and soft input sounds into the residual dynamic range of a patient via a hearing aid
What is compression?
Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle, and Pinkie Pie are all from this rebooted 80's classic cartoon.
What is My Little Pony?
You gotta get this one.
Audiology
This organization in BC represents the interests of audiologists and speech-language pathologists.
What is Speech & Hearing BC?
A technique that requires the hard of hearing listener to speechread verbatim passages presented by the clinician.
What is Connected Discourse Tracking?
The legal minimum number of days that clients are given to trial a new hearing aid in BC.
What is 30 days?
This classic character's trademark line is "What's up, Doc?"
Who is Bugs Bunny?
A favourite winter activity for many Canadians
Skiing
This national organization based in Ottawa represents the professional interests of audiologists and SLPs. They also advocate the federal government on professional issues.
Speech-language and Audiology Canada (SAC)
This is a strategy for speechreading that separates meaningful events from ambient, or background, stimuli.
What is Figure-ground?
The use of phase cancellation and gain reduction to reduce the whistling and squeaking sounds in a hearing aid.
What is feedback management/cancellation?
What is Pokemon?
The fingerspelling for this beverage.
coffee
This organization is dedicated to enhancing the role of audiologists as primary hearing health care providers through advocacy, education and research.
What is the Canadian Academy of Audiologists?
Group discussions in general, but especially for those with hearing loss, are best held with chairs and desks in this shape.
What is a semi-circle?
These tiny hearing aids with tiny wires were only made possible thanks to advances in feedback cancellation technology.
What are receiver in the canal (RIC) hearing aids?
This giant purple dinosaur would always sing "I love you, you love me" at the end of his show.
Who is Barney?