Online CPD Day Program
Recordings and assessments will be available for 3 weeks, until Friday 17 March 2023, to enable you to watch in your own time if you are unable to watch the stream live.
The Online CPD Day will be held on Friday 24 February 2023 and will be streamed from the QLD Chapter Conference. Please see below for the preliminary program. All times are in AEST time (QLD time).
5.5 CPD Points (Category 1.2)
| Time (AEST) | Details | Speaker/s |
| 0845 - 0900 | Welcome and Introduction | Rachel Gibson (Audiology Australia Chapter Chair) |
| 0900 - 1000 | New Learnings about stigma experiences of adults with hearing loss and their families Stigma has long been implicated as a reason why adults with hearing loss take an average of 7 to 10 years to seek help and why outcomes of hearing device fitting are less than optimal. The team at University of Queensland has been conducting a program of research to systematically investigate how stigma is experienced by adults with hearing loss and their families, how they manage it in everyday life, and how these experiences relate to outcomes. The findings are new to the field and include greater stigma for hearing loss than hearing aids and management strategies of ‘not telling’ others. | Louise Hickson (University of Queensland) |
| 1000 - 1030 | Morning Tea | |
| 1030 - 1130 | The rationale and resources for aural rehabilitation programs for adults and children This session will explore the latest research on the rationale for aural rehabilitation and provide a detailed overview of a comprehensive range of interactive tools available to support both adults and children on their hearing journey. | Rebecca Claridge (Med-El) |
| 1130 - 1200 | Early experience with the Osia Bone Conduction Implant system in a private clinic OSIA is the most recent bone conduction device available in Australia for hard of hearing people who cannot wear conventional hearing aids for medical reasons. In this presentation, the indications for using this implant, the clinical experience and patients' outcomes and feedback will be shared. | Jay Lee (Attune Hearing) |
| 1200 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1400 | From the lab to the clinic: using fNIRS to accelerate early intervention for infants with hearing loss Researchers in the EarGenie project at the Bionics Institute are using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure hearing in sleeping infants with the goal to develop a clinical device for use in audiology clinics. This presentation will review the essentials of fNIRS and its application in hearing research and present our current findings for measurement of speech sound detection and discrimination measured in normal hearing and hearing- impaired babies. | Julia Wunderlich |
| 1400 - 1500 | Advances
in the treatment of chronic middle ear infection in indigenous children | Diane Maresco-Pennisi (University of Queensland) |
| 1500 - 1530 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 1530 - 1630 | Listening and listening difficulties Recent attempts to better understand how the brain processes sound have seen researchers reconsider auditory processing (AP) and auditory processing disorder (APD) through the broader lenses of listening and listening difficulties (LD). This presentation will review this new research and its goals of developing new tests and protocols that could allow audiologists to differentially diagnose and manage a wider range patient-reported listening difficulties including those originating from audition, language and/or cognition. | Wayne Wilson (University of Queensland) |
| 1630 - 1700 | What I wish I knew when I started out as a professional audiologist | Greer McDonald (Hear and Say) |