How Can Clinical Audiologists Apply Contemporary Hearing Loss Prevention Evidence?

Prerecorded presentation available to view on-demand on April 17, 2021

This on-demand program is offered for FREE to all AAA 2021 Virtual Conference registrants and AAA 2021 All-Inclusive Webinar Package subscribers.  Please allow one business day after registering for the AAA 2021 Virtual Conference to receive access to activate your registration.

Presenters: Gregory A. Flamme, PhD; Michael Santucci, AuD; Kristy K. Deiters, AuD

Duration: 1 hour

CEUs: 0.1 AAA/Tier 1

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Program Focus: Knowledge

Learning Outcomes: Upon completion, each participant in the eAudiology Web Seminar will be able to:

1. Recognize the purpose, advantages, and disadvantages of considering age when evaluating audiometric changes in occupational and other clinical audiology practices
2. Identify challenges and opportunities in preventing music-induced disorders
3. Recognize need, and potential, to extend OSHA’s age adjustment tables beyond age 60 to reflect the current workforce  

Description: Clinical audiologists have unique opportunities to prevent nonoccupational and occupational hearing loss.   Such advocacy calls for awareness, and application, of new and unique evidence-based advances. This presentation will be structured to review strategies for preventing music-induced hearing disorders, particularly among musicians and music-industry personnel. In addition, researchers will discuss recent trends in hearing sensitivity as a function of age, background on age adjustments that are included in the OSHA noise regulation, and ongoing efforts to update these age adjustment tables.

Gregory A.  Flamme PhD; Senior Scientist, SASRAC-West, Forest Grove, OR

No Financial or non-financial disclosures

Michael Santucci AuD; President, Sensaphonics, Inc,  Chicago, IL

Financial Disclosure: President of Sensaphonics, Inc. which designs and manufactures hearing protection devices for the music industry.

Kristy K. Deiters, AuD; Research Audiologist, SASRAC-West, Forest Grove, OR

No financial or non-financial disclosures