Making Music with a Hearing Loss: Strategies and Stories
This collaborative work is written by audiologists Dr. Marshall Chasin and Dr. Brad Ingrao and includes stories by 11 adult musicians with hearing loss who are members of the Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL).    Dr. Marshall Chasin is the Director of Auditory Research at the Musicians' Clinics of Canada in Toronto, the Coordinator of Research at the Canadian Hearing Society, and the Director of Research at ListenUp Canada. Dr. Chasin has been involved with hearing and hearing aid assessment since 1981, having graduated with a Master of Science from the University of British Columbia. He has authored several books on hearing, hearing aids, musicians and noise exposure and over 100 clinically based articles. In 2003, he obtained his AuD from the Arizona School of Health Sciences.    Dr. Ingrao has a long history of responding to the needs of consumers, parents and colleagues through his participation on over a dozen hearing loss-related listservs and a pro-bono website for parents. As the Coordinator of Audiology Information Services of the Hearing Instrument Manufacturers' Software Association, he addressed quality and accessibility issues in software used for fitting hearing aids. Dr. Ingrao is now principal audiologist and consultant for e-audiology.net.     Dr. Cherisse Miller is a pianist, organist, and MTNA certified piano teacher. In 2009, she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Pedagogy at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Miller has published two online journal articles for Pedagogy Forum in 2002 and The Hearing Review in 2009 where she discusses the challenges and strategies of musicians with hearing loss. Her dissertation is entitled Musicians with Hearing Loss: A Basic Guide for Teachers and Performers.