**2. Genealogy of the term "Audiology"**

As we start 2017, clinical Audiology celebrates a historical span of 71 years, according to Kenneth Berger. In 1976, Berger published an article [8] in the *Journal of the American Audiology Society (AAS)*, where he presented his findings regarding the time occurrence of the term "Audiology." The first printed reference of the term originates back in 1946. In the 1946,

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*Journal of Speech Disorders* on page 218 appears a brief announcement that the "Speech Clinic at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, is the permanent Naval center for rehabilitation and for research in Speech and Audiology."

Interestingly, according to Berger [8] the term "Audiology" cannot be attributed to a specific individual, a notion which contracts what I have learned in my academic training in the US, where it was considered common knowledge that Raymond Carhart was the father of Audiology. Berger [8] reports the following: "*the original creator of the term (Audiology) remains unknown, but possible originators are considered: (i) Mayer BA Schier; (ii) Willard B Hargrave ; (iii) Stanley Nowak; (iv) Norman Canfield; (v) Raymond Carhart* [9]*. In a biographical profile by Robert Galambos, Hallowell Davis* [10] *is credited with coining the term in the 1940s, when he said that the then‐prevalent term "auricular training" sounded like a method of teaching people how to wiggle their ears."* It is interesting to note that from these six pioneering contributors, four (Carhart and Davis excluded) were related to technical fields (electroacoustics).
