Bill Keith received his PhD in audiology at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas. He has been involved in the development of hearing services in New Zealand throughout his career. He has worked on such widely divergent projects as a sonar device for the blind and on-board communication systems for Team New Zealand’s Americas Cup yachts. Until recently Bill chaired one of New Zealand’s two cochlear implant programmes.
Bill is engaged in APD research at the University of Auckland and is lead author of the NZ Guidelines on Auditory Processing Disorder. He also runs SoundSkills, a specialist model multi-disciplinary clinic for children and adults with APD, which he established to redress the lack of APD services in New Zealand.