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Dr. Melissa E. Heche, AuD

SOUND TWISTS IN CAREER By Dr. Melissa E. Heche, AuD s a child, I always knew that I wanted

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in both forums. Recognizing this, I

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looked at the relationship between

Bette Midler. I studied voice and

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acting from the time I was a child

perception and the brain response. To

and participated in local and

better understand these relationships,

regional theatre until I was a teenager, when I

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started auditioning professionally. At that time,

my graduate education, I became a

I studied musical theatre more formally and

sound engineer. This allowed me to

honed my skills as a musician on vocals and

better understand technology and

percussion. Being a performer was completely

branch music, sound, audiology and

my career plan.

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music within my private audiology

and television, I was focused on making it my

practice. I use music as a part of my

lifetime career despite any uncertainties in

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the industry. Then, a twist of fate steered me

loss, processing loss and tinnitus. Then,

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I began to focus on

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needs of the music

and accents. Learning about the linguistic

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education to musicians

on acoustics, which led to a path towards

with respect to their

speech pathology and audiology. I continued

exposure to noise/loud

to audition and perform while pursuing degrees

music and its potential

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impact on their hearing

acquisition/reduction, a skill that I used both

function. I performed

in my own performances and in vocal/speech

specialized

training for other performers. That kept me in

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the performance space. Ultimately, however,

counseled on healthy

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for

based audiology practice.

avocational musicians.

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Eventually,

I

began

loss, I became interested in the similarities

speaking

on

these

between programming hearing aids and mixing

topics to musicians and

music on a soundboard. The frequency bands

industry

in the hearing aid software were reminiscent

at trade shows such

of faders on the mixing board, and many of

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