Episode 5: The Hidden Connection: Hearing, Brain Health & How You Age
Most hearing tests only tell you part of the story. In Episode 6, audiologist Craig Lett explains how hearing loss affects your brain, sleep, balance, memory, and cognitive health — and how Ear360, the world's most comprehensive hearing assessment, is changing the way we approach hearing care.
A quick hearing check tests your ability to hear sound. But it doesn’t explain how your hearing affects your sleep, memory, balance, tinnitus and brain health.
In Episode 5 of Resonate the Podcast, Lesleigh Smith sits down with Craig Lett to discuss how there is more to hearing than most of us realise.
Craig is a senior audiologist at Resonate Health and PhD candidate at the University of Auckland. He was instrumental in developing Ear360, the world’s most comprehensive hearing assessment. Ear360 goes far beyond testing hearing ability, exploring the connection between hearing and other areas of your life, such as balance, sleep, tinnitus, memory, and cognitive fitness. In this conversation, he and Lesleigh unpack:
The science behind Ear360
- How hearing loss affects the brain, cognition, and mental workload
- The links between hearing, balance and sleep
- The invisible consequences of untreated hearing loss
- Why Resonate Health developed Ear360
- How much more there is to hearing than most of us realise
- How a whole-of-person approach to hearing care could change how we age.
About Craig Lett:
Craig Lett is an audiologist at Resonate Health and a PhD candidate at the University of Auckland, where his research focuses on TeleAudiology within a model of family-centred care.
He has spent his career accelerating innovations in hearing care. In 2017, he supported James Whittaker in launching New Zealand's first remote TeleAudiology service, bringing hearing care to rural communities via Te Waka Āwhina (Penelope), a 1949 Bedford Bus-turned-Mobile Hearing Clinic. He is also the creator of Resonates proprietary Ear360 assessment, the world’s most comprehensive hearing test.
Craig brings both clinical expertise and a genuine curiosity about the future of hearing healthcare and how TeleAudiology will lead to more efficient, effective, and widespread access to hearing healthcare on a global scale.
Craig’s research into TeleAudiology: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6437706/
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