Listed below is an online lecture series for audiologists hosted by the RIDBC Renwick Centre and Cochlear Australia and New Zealand. These lectures are $50 each or all 6 for $250.
Isabelle Boisvert Relative importance of sound deprivation and length of significant deafness in predicting cochlear implantation outcomes 8 April
Consequences of sound deprivation (unaided hearing loss) are frequently discussed in audiology clinics. When a broad definition of deprivation is used, there is a risk to rely on untested assumptions about its impacts. For example, in adults considering unilateral cochlear implantation, it is common to recommend implanting the “poorer” ear. Doubts arise, however, about the probability of obtaining satisfactory outcomes, when the “poorer” ear has had a long duration of sound deprivation. This is despite limited evidence in the literature supporting these doubts. This presentation is based on published studies and will provide a guide to informed decision-making in adults with a long duration unilateral sound deprivation considering a cochlear implant. The objectives of this presentation are to review the concept of duration of deafness and its relationship with outcomes of cochlear implantation, and how it applies to adults with residual hearing in their non-implanted ear. This will be done by examining speech recognition results obtained by adults with a hearing asymmetry (different duration of deafness between the ears) who received a cochlear implant in their better or poorer ear.
Dr Sharon Sandridge Newborn Hearing Diagnostics – Utilising all of our tools! 21 April
It is undisputed how universal newborn screening has changed the landscape of hearing impairment. Infants are identified within hours of their birth allowing early identification of hearing sensitivity. Currently, we have a tool box of diagnostic tools – some old standbys and others emerging. This session will review the gold-standard tests and discuss the new and emerging technology that will elevate our diagnostic ability to a higher standard.
Dr Sharon Sandridge Update on Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder 5 May
Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD) has been an identifiable disorder now for 10 years - since Arnold Starr first coined a term to describe this interesting disorder. This session will provide an updated review of ANSD including known pathophysiology and genetic origins; diagnostic testing involving electrophysiology and radiographic, and finally management options including success with cochlear implants.
Dr Sharon Sandridge Electrophysiologic Assessment of the Dizzy Patient 2 June
Vestibular disorders are among the most common reason why individuals seek ENT services. Dizziness can be a symptom of so many disorders including Meniere’s disease, migraines, superior canal dehiscence (SCD),
multiple sclerosis, to mention a few. Today we have several diagnostic tests that can assist in the determination of the etiology. This session will discuss the use of electrocochleography (yes it is staging a comeback!) and Vestibular Myogenic Evoked Potentials (VEMPs) in their expanded diagnostic role across the lifespan.
Dr Sharon Sandridge Maximising the use of your evoked potential equipment. 14 July
Ever wonder if you should be doing more than just an Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) testing for hearing sensitivity determination or an occasional Vestibular Myogenic Evoked Potential (VEMP) for assessing superior canal dehiscence or maybe a low-sensitive/specific electrocochleography (EcochG) test for Meniere’s disease? This session will present what is trending in the literature for alternative uses of your evoked potential system.
Rebecca Bull Complex and Challenging Cases 18 October
This presentation will feature several case studies of complex and challenging cases and how the implementation of a word recognition test battery (Bodkin, Madell, and Rosenfeld, 1999) was used to quantify their functional speech perception abilities. The purpose of this is to establish a meaningful link between audiological results and classroom practice. It provides educators and other professionals with information about areas requiring further development, and determines a baseline for testing over time to monitor the development of specific auditory skills.
Archived Online Lectures
2015 Audiology Masterclass Series
These six lectures featured fascinating studies of children and adults with complex and challenging audiology cases. Full series costs $200.
1) Unexplained Changes in Hearing in a Student with Hearing Loss – A Case Study Paul Peryman
2) Implantable hearing technologies for children with single-sided deafness: Candidacy and Management Emma Rushbrooke and Beth Atkinson
3) Combining parent observations with objective hearing tests in challenging cases - A Case study with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum disorder. Janet Chapparo
4) Minimal device use: The impact of cultural difference and perceptions on cochlear implant outcomes Colleen Psarros
5) A case study of the audiological management of a baby with a deteriorating sensorineural hearing loss and a fluctuating conductive overlay.
Karen Gillies 6) A case study of unilateral ANSD Genelle Cook and Kim Ter-Horst
Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf Online Series
This online lecture series focused on the role of the Itinerant Support Teacher: Hearing as they support students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) in the mainstream classroom. It was presented by Dr Shirin Antia. Full Series costs $150
1) Mainstreaming or Inclusion? Is there a difference?
2) Academic status of DHH students in mainstream programs
3) Social status of DHH students in mainstream programs
4) The role of the itinerant teacher in supporting mainstreamed DHH students
5) Individual, family, and school assets that promote academic and social success
6) Facilitating and enhancing assets: Is there something we can do?
The Future is Now: The Making Sense Toolbox
In this series of eight 30-minute online lectures, Paul Pagliano takes you on a stimulating journey into the exciting world of the senses. He’s on a quest for sensational ways to expand the sense repertoire capacities of children with sense learning difficulties, to help them use their sense abilities to make meaning. Along the way you’ll become detectives in the world of sense development and learning. And be introduced to a remarkable sensory toolbox that educators can employ to enable the disengaged child to transform learned helplessness into something else entirely. Full Series $200.
Considerations when Teaching Students who are Blind or have Vision Impairment
This online lecture series focuses on the role of the Specialist Teachers of Students with Vision Impairment as they support students who are blind or have vision impairment (BVI) in the mainstream. Full Series cost $150.
1) Preparing for School Inclusion
2) Legislative Imperatives
3) The Itinerant Teacher’s role
4) Technology and Equipment
5) Knowing the needs of your student
International Speakers’ Biographies
Dr Christine Yoshinaga Itano
Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is a Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Audiology, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, faculty of the Institute of Cognitive Science, Centre for Neurosciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado, Denver and the Marion Downs Centre. She developed the Marion Downs Centre in 1996 and received funding from the National Institutes of Health,
Centres for Disease Control, Maternal & Child Health, the Office of Special Education, and the Office of Education since the early 1980s. Dr. Yoshinaga-Itano has assisted many state departments of education and public health agencies, schools for the deaf and blind, and early intervention programs throughout the United States and its territories. In addition, she has served as a consultant for many countries who have developed early hearing detection and intervention programs. She was the recipient of the Academy of Audiology(AAA) the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology in 2013, AAA Research Achievement Award in 2001, the 2010 Robert Ruben Award for Research from the Society for Ear Nose and Throat Advances for Children, the 2014 Antonio Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence, and the 2010 Council for Exceptional Children, Division of Communicative Disabilities and Deafness Award.
Dr Shirin Antia
Dr. Shirin Antia, Meyerson Distinguished Professor of
Disability and Rehabilitation, Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, College of Education has directed the program in education of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) students since 1980. She teaches masters- and doctoral-level courses in the areas of language development of exceptional students, inclusion, and research. She is currently one of the co-principal investigators of the Centre for Literacy and Deafness (CLAD). She has conducted extensive research on inclusive programs and on social and academic integration of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, the primary research journal in education of DHH individuals. She has been a board member of the Council on Education of the Deaf (CED), served as the president of the Association of College Educators-Deaf/Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH) and is actively involved in professional preparation activities. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on social interaction, social integration, and inclusion of DHH students. She has authored a book on social competence of DHH children. Dr. Antia has been honoured as a University of Arizona College of Education Erasmus Scholar, and received the Sister Mary Delaney award from ACE-DHH for her professional contribution to the field.
Dr Sue Archbold
Back in 1989, at the outset of The Ear Foundation, as a teacher of the deaf, I never dreamt that I would see the changes in opportunities for deaf children brought about by cochlear implantation. It’s a privilege to have observed the dramatic changes in opportunities offered by today’s
hearing technologies, particularly cochlear implants, for deaf children and adults. The Ear Foundation led the way in the provision of cochlear implants for children, and now I am delighted to be leading our great team in ensuring that the potential of the technology is reached in everyday life. My experience in education, in managing Nottingham Cochlear Implant Programme for 15 years, in delivering clinical services and in qualitative research gives me the background to run this exciting and diverse Third Sector organisation with its great team of staff, Trustees and volunteers. My national and international contacts in education, audiology, ENT, speech and language and cochlear implantation ensure that we are up to date with the latest research and practice and that we are influential across this diverse field. Most of all, our team share the passion in putting our users-deaf children, young people, adults and their families - at the heart of what we do.
Dr Kim Zebehazy
Kim Zebehazy is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational
and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She is co-coordinator of the blindness and vision impairment concentration that prepares teachers of students with vision impairments (TSVIs) and coordinator of the graduate certificate in orientation and mobility. Kim has been at UBC since 2009. Kim was also an assistant professor in these areas for two years at Northern Illinois University. Prior to working at the university level, Kim was an itinerant TSVI and O&M specialist in Vermont. Her caseload included children with vision impairments birth through high school, with and without multiple disabilities. She holds Academy for the Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals (ACVREP) certification in both orientation and mobility and low vision therapy.
Kim received her bachelor’s degree in special education with an emphasis in vision impairment and her Master of Arts degree in orientation and mobility from Western Michigan University. She completed her doctorate in 2006 from the University of Pittsburgh in special education with a focus on blindness and vision impairment. Kim’s research interests include personnel preparation, promoting problem solving and thinking skills with students with vision impairments, assessment, low vision, and orientation and mobility.
Associate Professor Paul Pagliano
Paul Pagliano is Associate Professor in Education at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. The senses have been his lifelong passion. Having written three highly regarded single author books on this topic, Paul has gained an international reputation as an inspiring speaker and workshop presenter.
Dr Frances Mary D’Andrea
Frances Mary D’Andrea, Ph.D., is an instructor at the University of Pittsburgh
and other universities, and an educational consultant specializing in literacy issues related to students with vision impairments. She has completed the reading specialist program at University of Pittsburgh and has supervised reading interns for the university. Dr. D’Andrea began as a teacher of students with vision impairments in 1982. From 1995-2005, she worked at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), and helped establish their National Literacy Center. She co-authored Assistive Technology for Students Who Are Blind or Vision Impaired: A Guide to Assessment; Instructional Strategies for Braille Literacy; Looking to Learn: Promoting Literacy for Students with Low Vision; and other books, chapters, and articles. She is currently Immediate Past-Chair of the Braille Authority of North America (BANA), and has served as AFB’s representative to BANA since 1998.
Dr Sharon Sandridge
Sharon A. Sandridge, Ph.D. is the Director, Audiology Clinical Services, the Co-Director,
Tinnitus Management Clinic, and Co-Director, Audiology Research Lab at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio, USA. Dr. Sandridge joined the Clinic in 1995 after a 2-year position as a Research Associate at City University of New York – Graduate Centre where she used the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) to investigate speech perception. Prior to that she was on faculty at Northern Illinois University where she taught the courses on electrophysiology. Her dissertation used the P300 to investigate the effects of aging on speech perception. Over her career she has investigated or used clinically the Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) for both hearing sensitivity, neurologic assessment and intra-operative monitoring, the electrocochleography (EcochG), the 40-Hz ERP, the Auditory Steady-State Response (ASSR), the MMN, P300, Stacked ABR, CHAMP, and Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VMP).
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