eAudiology

There’s a 17- to 25-year gap between scientific discovery and clinical adoption of new and effective interventions. For children with congenital hearing loss, a two-decade delay for data-driven advancements in diagnostic and habilitative audiological practices can have devastating effects on auditory, speech, language, academic, and social development. Adults with hearing loss also are at risk for impaired communication, social isolation, educational and vocational barriers, dementia, and poor quality of life. Since auditory implantable technology is rapidly advancing, and candidacy indications are both expanding and overlapping, attempting to stay up-to-date on the literature becomes a part-time job, which is particularly difficult for full-time clinicians.

The 2024 Virtual Academy Research Conference (ARC) will bring together the latest discovery in auditory implantable technology from an esteemed group of clinician-scientists in audiology and otology. We will be covering topics including advances in auditory implant surgery, asymmetrically driven neuroplasticity for bimodal and sequential bilateral cochlear implant (CI) recipients, the role of genetics in clinical decision-making for candidacy determination and recommended intervention, totally implantable technology, single-sided deafness (SSD), highly asymmetric hearing losses, and much more.

Funding for this conference was made possible by grant 1R13DC020893-01 from National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. 

The Academy Research Conference (ARC) 2024 program is now open for registration and worth 0.5 AAA CEUs. The registrants for the AM Sessions may obtain 0.25 AAA CEUs, and registrants for the PM sessions may obtain 0.25 AAA CEUs; registrants for the entire conference will receive 0.5 AAA CEUs. Following your viewing of the live programs, you must return to the event in your eAudiology account and complete the evaluation and assessment (scoring 80% or better) to earn your certificate. Following the completion of these steps, your CEUs ––will be posted to your Academy's record.