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How the hearing loop works doctorate in social psychology at the University of Iowa in 1967 and started a teaching and research career. He loved teaching, but understanding students’ questions got harder and harder, and faculty committee meetings grew more frustrating. To expand his teaching, Myers turned to writing textbooks. The first edition of his introductory psychology textbook “Psychology” was published in 1986. Myers’s advocacy for hearing loops in Loop amplifier connects to TV the United States began in his hometown audio jack or other audio source of Holland and the adjoining community of Zeeland in western Michigan. He brought together religious leaders, audiologists, school and civic officials and business leaders to hear about the devices. Loop sends magnetic His pitch combined information, altruism signal to hearing aids and self-interest. He argued that people with hearing loss would enjoy a better quality of life if the loops were widely installed, and that businesses could make their customers happier. “The argument is, wouldn’t you like more customers from among America’s population with hearing loss?” he says. That campaign successfully looped 80 places of worship, 16 businesses, auditoriums at local schools and colleges and the senior center, community center and City Hall council chambers, then spread to Grand Rapids, where the city’s convention center, airport and many houses of worship are now looped. Myers Hearing aids transmit also launched www.hearingloop.org, to TV sound to ears publicize the benefits of hearing loops. He traveled around the country to speak to civic and hearing advocacy groups. He also lobbied hearing aid manufacturers to include a magnetic telecoil receptor in all Now that he’s made his hometown hearing-loop friendly, new models of hearing aids to make the devices compatible Myers wants everyone dealing with hearing loss to enjoy the with loop systems. same benefit. “Is there any reason why we in the U.S. can’t have Myers’s advocacy gained further momentum last year, this technology?” he asks. n when the Hearing Loss Association of America joined with the American Academy of Audiology to launch a national To hear a demonstration of the difference educational campaign called “Get in the Hearing Loop.” a hearing loop makes to a person using a Myers deserves all the credit for developing the argument hearing aid, go to www.hearingloop.org/ for why hearing loop systems should be much more widely SoundDemo.html. installed in public spaces, says Brenda Battat, executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America. “He’s chosen this as More information about hearing loops is also available at something he’s going to make happen, on a very wide scale, and www.hearingloss.org/content/get-hearing-loop. it is. It’s picking up.” DeceMber 2011 • Monitor on psychology 61 http://www.hearingloop.org http://www.hearingloop.org/SoundDemo.html http://www.hearingloop.org/SoundDemo.html http://www.hearingloss.org/content/get-hearing-loop

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - December 2011

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Willpower Pioneer Wins $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize
Single-Sex Schooling Called Into Question by Prominent Researchers
Maternal Depression Stunts Childhood Growth, Research Suggests
For Boys, Sharing May Seem Like a Waste of Time
Good News for Postdoc Applicants
In Brief
Treatment Guideline Development Now Under Way
Government Relations Update
Psychologist Named Va Mental Health Chief
The Limits of Eyewitness Testimony
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Deconstructing Suicide
Questionnaire
A Focus on Interdisciplinarity
A Time of ‘Enormous Change’
The Science Behind Team Science
Good Science Requires Good Conflict
A New Paradigm of Care
Speaking of Education
Science Directions
New Labels, New Attitudes?
Psychologist Profile
Early Career Psychology
Unintended Consequences
Better Options for Troubled Teens
Saving Lives, One Organ at a Time
New Journal Editors
APA News
Division Spotlight
Guidelines for the Conduct of President-Elect Nominations and Elections
American Psychological Foundation
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011