AAA 2021 Virtual: Marion Downs Lecture in Pediatric Audiology: Enhancing the Auditory Experience for Children Who Wear Hearing Aids

Presented at AAA 2021 Virtual

Presenter: Ryan McCreery, PhD

Duration: 60 minutes

CEUs: 0.10 AAA/Tier 1 CEUS

Instructional Level: Advanced

Program Focus: Knowledge

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

1. Implement evidence-based hearing aid verification processes that maximize auditory experience for children with hearing loss.
2. Develop approaches for assessing consistency of hearing aid use in children and provide strategies to support children and their families.
3. Analyze the dose-response relationship between hearing aids and developmental outcomes to improve how children with hearing loss function with hearing aids.

Description:  

The widespread implementation of newborn hearing screening has provided an unprecedented opportunity for early intervention and amplification for children with hearing loss. These developments led to new research questions and areas of inquiry about the effects of hearing aids on the development of children with hearing loss. The goal of this presentation is to review the theory of cumulative auditory experience and how audiologists can use this new knowledge to improve outcomes for children with hearing loss and their families.

Sponsored by:

Ryan McCreery, PhD

Director of Research Boys Town National Research Hospital

Ryan McCreery is the Director of Research and Director of the Audibility, Perception, and Cognition Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. As Director of Research, Ryan provides strategic leadership to the more than 30 laboratories in 6 centers of excellence in the Boys Town Research program. In his own laboratory, Ryan studies speech perception, language, and cognitive abilities in children with hearing loss with the goal of improving clinical interventions and outcomes for this population.

Disclosure: Financial Disclosures: Boys Town National Research Hospital- Employment; British Columbia Early Hearing Program- Consultant/Advisory Board, Consultant; NIH/NIDCD- Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received

Non-Financial Disclosures: Joint Committee on Infant Hearing - Member