Online CPD Day Program
Recordings and assessments will be available for 3 weeks, until Sunday 13 November 2022, 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 Saturday 22 October 2022 and will be streamed from the VIC Chapter Conference. Please see below for the preliminary program. All times are in AEDT time (ACT/NSW/TAS/VIC time).
5 CPD Points
| Time (AEDT) | Details | Speaker/s |
| 0900 - 1000 | Current Trends in Hidden Hearing Loss A large proportion of individuals experience hearing difficulties before the audiogram shows there is a problem. This form of hidden hearing loss has important implications both on the people with hearing difficulties and the clinicians who treat them. In this talk, I will present a comprehensive overview of different models based on animal research that may explain the underlying causes of these early signs of hearing loss. Further, I will show the clinical value of different interventions (including hearables and low-gain hearing aids) to attend the unique needs of this segment of the population with hearing difficulties. This will include research by NAL evaluating the value of the AirPods Pro hearables and the Phonak M50 hearing aids. | Joaquín Tomás Valderrama-Valenzuela (NAL) |
| 1000 - 1030 | Morning Tea | |
| 1030 - 1230 | The Future of Audiology is in the Brain? We want anyone who walks through our doors with a hearing problem to walk out with a hearing solution. While most audiologists are familiar with diagnosing and treating hearing loss, far fewer know what steps to take for a person with a normal audiogram and complaints of hearing problems. During this lecture, Angela will take you through a step-by-step process on identifying potential red flags for auditory processing problems in people with and without hearing loss to give you ideas on potential solutions for clients with hearing problems beyond the audiogram. This session will explore tools, case study videos, and demonstrations of auditory training to improve auditory processing abilities in clients with and without hearing loss. If the ears are the hardware, the brain is the software. We need both to work well to have a great user experience. And it's time to level up our game. | Angela Alexander |
| 1230 - 1300 | 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 |
| 1300 - 1430 | Lunch | |
| 1430 - 1530 | Management of Tinnitus in Children Children and adolescents troubled by tinnitus may experience difficulties with sleep, concentration, attention and listening, learning difficulties, irritability and emotional distress. Currently guidelines recommend adapting strategies designed for adults to meet children/adolescents needs and techniques such as narrative therapy. Narrative therapy has typically been delivered by coupling stories with hand drawn pictures for younger children. However, technology such as memes allows us new ways of adapting narrative therapy to increase its appeal and application for managing tinnitus during adolescence. | Susan Tegg-Quinn, Hearelief |
| 1530 - 1600 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 1600 - 1700 | Panel: Managing Children with Communication and Listening Disorders in the Community This forum will focus on the models of service delivery available for children and their families in the community. Our three speakers from private practice, community health and education will talk about their roles and the ways in which they support children in their everyday lives. The discussion will focus on practical and pro-active strategies for working with hearing-impaired children and adolescents as they grow and develop. | Facilitator: Chryisse Heine Panelists: Jude Harper & Kausch Troy |