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 was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University in Alabama and also at Western University in Onterrible. He was a corporate Audiologist at Unitron, a hearing aid manufacturer based in Kitchener Ontario, where he conducted field trials and gave presentations, domestically and abroad. He taught in the Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS) program at George Brown College in Toronto, and in 2006 he initiated, developed and implemented the HIS program at Conestoga College in Kitchener Ontario. He moved to Victoria BC in 2013, where he was part owner of a clinical Audiology practice with NexGen Hearing. Ted is the author of a small textbook, Compression for Clinicians. At the present time, he continues to give presentations on various topics of hearing, hearing loss and hearing aids. As of September 2015, Ted has been and teaching on a part time basis with the online HIS program at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield Missouri.