Max Chartrand:  

Introduction from a recent publication interview: Editor’s Note: Recently, Aural Rehab Concepts sat down with Dr. Chartrand to ask him to expound a bit on his findings in human cognitive development. Profoundly deaf, and a cochlear implant user, Dr. Chartrand lost most of his hearing to a childhood disease at age three, and later to the toxic medicines used to control rheumatic fever at age ten. Despite a lifetime of first severe hearing impairment as a child and then profound deafness during adulthood, he has had to overcome almost impossible obstacles, earning six advanced university degrees, including a doctorate in Research in Communicative Disorders and another doctorate in Behavioral Medicine. Ironically, as a severely hearing impaired child, he started playing the clarinet at age ten, adding the tenor sax age 12, playing first chair clarinet in Denver All-City Band and Colorado All-State Bands and Orchestras, and making his first professional re...Expand for more