Christian Giguère

Christian Giguère joined the University of Ottawa in 1995 and is currently professor in audiology and speech-language pathology at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences. He teaches courses in acoustics, speech science, instrumentation in audiology, and hearing aids. His research interests include speech communication and warning sound perception, hearing loss prevention, and auditory fitness for duty.

Christian Giguère has authored over 150 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is active in the area of standardization with several national (CSA, ANSI) and international (ISO) technical workgroups on topics related to occupational hearing loss, hearing protection and audiology.

Professor Giguère is past president of the Canadian Acoustical Association (CAA) and former co-chair of the International Commission on the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN). He is chair of the Z1007 Technical Committee on occupational hearing loss with the Canadian Standards Organisation (CSA) and an associate editor with The International Journal of Audiology (TIJA). He is a distinguished international member of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE-USA).

• Speech and warning sound perception in noise
• Hearing aids, hearing protectors and communication systems
• Prevention of hearing loss in noisy workplaces
• Hearing standards for employment

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• Laroche C., Giguère C., Vaillancourt V., Marleau C., Cadieux M.-F., Laprise-Girard K., Gula E., Carroll V., Bibeau M., and Nélisse H. (2021). “Effect of Hearing and Head Protection on the Localization of Tonal and Broadband Reverse Alarms,” Human Factors. In press
• Giguère C., Lagacé J., Ellaham N.N., Pichora-Fuller M.K., Goy H., Bégin C., Alary É., and Bowman R. (2020). “Development of the Canadian Digit Triplet Test in English and French,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 147, EL252-EL258
• Giguère C., Vaillancourt V., and Laroche C. (2019). “Effects of hearing loss and language proficiency on speech intelligibility over radio transmission with tactical communication devices,” International Journal of Audiology 59, S31-S39.
• Nakashima A. and Giguère, C. (2019). “Towards an improved hearing safety standard for impulse noise exposure in the Canadian Armed Forces,” Journal of Military, Veterans and Family Health 6(1), 98-107.
• Giguère C., Laroche C., Vaillancourt, V., and Soli S.D. (2019). “Development of Hearing Standards for Ontario’s Constable Selection System,” International Journal of Audiology 58(11), 798-804.
• Nassrallah F., Ellaham N.N., Giguère C., and Dajani H.R. (2019). “An indirect calculation method for estimating occupational sound exposure from communication headsets,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 145(2), 749-760.
• Vaziri G., Giguère C., and Dajani, H.R. (2019). “Evaluating noise suppression methods for recovering the Lombard speech from vocal output in an external noise field,” Int. J. of Speech Technology 22, 31-46.
• Soli S.D., Giguère C., Laroche C., Vaillancourt V., Dreschler W.A., Rhebergen K.S., Harkins K., Ruckstuhl M., Ramulu P., and Meyers L.S. (2018). “Evidence-based occupational hearing screening I: Modelling the effects of real-world noise environments on the likelihood of effective speech communication,” Ear Hear 39 (3), 436–448
• Soli S.D., Amano-Kusumoto A., Clavier O., Wilbur J., Casto K., Freed D., Laroche C., Vaillancourt V., Giguère C., Dreschler W.A., and Rhebergen K.S. (2018). “Evidence-based occupational hearing screening II: Validation of a screening methodology using measures of functional hearing ability,” International Journal of Audiology 57(5), 323-334.
• Laroche C., Giguère C., Vaillancourt V., Roy K., Pageot L-P., Nélisse H., Ellaham N., and Nassrallah F. (2018). “Detection and reaction thresholds for reverse alarms in noise with and without passive hearing protection,” International Journal of Audiology 57(S1), S51-S60
• Al Osman R., Giguère C., and Dajani H.R. (2018). “Effects of early and late-arriving room reflections on the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response,” Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 29(2), 95-105.
• Al Osman R., Dajani H.R., and Giguère C. (2017). “Self-masking and overlap-masking from reverberation using the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 142(6), EL555-EL560.
• Giguère C., Vaziri G., Dajani H.R., and Berger E.H. (2017). “Speech communication with hearing protectors,” NHCA Spectrum 34 (2), 15-19.
• Al Osman R., Giguère C., and Dajani H.R. (2016). "Effects of stimulus rate on speech-evoked auditory brainstem response," Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 40(2), 105-119.
• Nassrallah F., Giguère C., Dajani H.R., and Ellaham N.N. (2016). “Comparison of direct measurement methods for headset noise exposure in the workplace,” Noise & Health 18(81), 62-77.
• Vaillancourt V., Gendron M., Leroux T., Laroche C., Leroux T., Fortier P., Paré L., Giguère C. et Voix J. (2016). « Utilisation des prothèses auditives en milieu de travail bruyant – Problématique, pratiques courantes et outils utilisés par les intervenants de la santé pour répondre aux besoins des travailleurs », Travail et Santé 32(1), 20-25.
• Giguère C., and Berger E.H. (2016). “Speech communication in noise under hearing protection: A computational study of the combined effects of hearing loss and hearing protector attenuation,” International Journal of Audiology 55(S1), S30-S40.