18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
10/25/2016 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Audiological Management and Habilitation | BGPOP Building 402/403/404
Audiological Management and Habilitation
The goal of audiological management and habilitation is to provide a sound solution to manage hearing loss through the provision of access to sound and speech therapy. Approaches in sound management and habilitation are related but not limited to varying factors, such as age of onset, type and severity of hearing loss, other communication needs and access to habilitation. The session aims to provide information on hearing loss and management approaches with the goal of providing maximum audiologic benefit.
- Explain how goals and approaches to audiologic management are related to the patient’s age, type and severity of hearing loss, and need
- Discuss strategies for patients across ages and types and severity of hearing loss
- Acquire skills in efficiently managing complex and non-complex cases and properly refer to partner professionals for habilitation
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Presenters/Authors
Serah N. Ndegwa, Msc
(), UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, serahndegwa8@gmail.com;
I am a Clinical Audiologist and lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Program director for the Diploma training program in Audiology and Public Health Otology, Co-founder of Cochlear Implant Group of Kenya, Secretary of the Kenya Society of Audiology, Member of the technical working group for the National Plan for Ear and Hearing Care at the Ministry of Health in Kenya, Co-rdinator of the Public Health planning for Hearing Impairment course in Nairobi.
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Philip Newall
(), Atune Hearing, philip.newall@ridbc.org.au;
Professor Newall is employed as a senior audiologist by Attune Hearing in Australia.
He was involved in establishing academic programs for audiologists in the Philippines, Manila and Beijing. He is Fellow of the Audiological Society of Australia and a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.
Philip Newall has research interests in clinical audiology, especially in the area of amplification for the severely and profoundly hearing-impaired and in the epidemiology of deafness and tinnitus. He has written more than 100 articles in scientific journals and has been a chief investigator on research grants worth over A$3 million. He has made over 130 presentations at conferences in Australia and overseas.
He is an Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, and a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle, and a Professorial Fellow at the Renwick Centre in the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in Sydney, Australia.
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Jeffery Larsen
(), Utah State University , jeffery.larsen@usu.edu;
Jeff Larsen is a faculty member of the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. He works in the adult audiology clinic, teaches courses, and conducts research. His primary interests are speech perception, classroom acoustics, humanitarian audiology, and vestibular outcomes in the case of mild traumatic brain injury.
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Alfred Mwamba
(), Starkey Hearing Foundation, alfred.tennis@gmail.com;
An Audiologist who is the Director of the Starkey Hearing Institute.
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