Ted Venema is an Audiologist who has a BA in Philosophy at Calvin College in 1977, and an MA in Audiology at Western Washington University in 1988. After three years as a clinical Audiologist at The Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto, he completed a PhD in Audiology at the University of Oklahoma in 1993. He spent another year of clinical practice at NexGen Hearing in Victoria BC in 2013. The 20 years between these times were filled with a variety of positions in the field of hearing, hearing loss and hearing aids. He was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University in Alabama (1993-95). From 1995-2001 he worked at Unitron Hearing where he conducted field trials and gave presentations, domestically and abroad. From 2001-2006 he was again an Assistant professor of Audiology at Western University in Ontario Canada. While at Unitron and Western (from 1995 – 2004), he also taught on a part time basis in the Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS) program at George Brown College in Toronto Canada. In 2006 he initiated, developed and implemented the HIS program at Conestoga College in Kitchener Ontario. Ted is the author of a small textbook, Compression for Clinicians, first published in 1998, and republished as a 2nd edition in 2006. He is now writing a 3rd edition of this same book to be released in 2017. At present, Ted is the editor of the Canadian Hearing Report, a sister publication to the Signal. He continues to stay in trouble, and is currently teaching online for the HIS program at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield Missouri. Ted lives in Canada’s “California,” also known as Victoria BC Canada.