⁠Conference Program

Saturday 24th March 2018

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9:00am 9:30am Registration & Arrival Tea & Coffee
9:30am 9:35am Welcome and Introductions
9:35am 10:20am Kim Ter-Horst
“Challenging times” - Autism Spectrum Disorder and the paediatric (diagnostic) audiologist
The session will outline the features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and ways in which audiologists can incorporate an understanding of ASD into their approach to assessment. We will discuss the challenges experienced daily by paediatric audiologists working with children diagnosed with, or suspected of having, an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Most of these children are referred to audiology to “rule out hearing loss” often as a first step in their diagnostic journey. A familiarity with the features of ASD will help the diagnostic audiologist to tailor the audiometric experience to the needs of these children for whom audiometry and device use doesn’t come easily.
10:20am 11:35am Case Study Discussion on children difficult to test
Facilitated by Shaani Graves 
Panel: Tim Rayner, Jactina Gerin and Kim Ter-Horst
This interactive hands on session will provide participants with an opportunity to consider different strategies and techniques when assessing challenging and difficult to test children in a clinical setting.
11:35am 12:00pm Morning Tea
12:00pm 12:40pm Danielle Tres
Hearing and cognitive benefits of hearing aids
The biggest challenge for people with hearing loss is to communicate in noisy environments. The benchmark to measure the benefits of hearing-aids has been for years to measure the improvement in speech intelligibility in a one-to-one scenario. This situation poorly represents the benefits experienced by end-users in their daily life where sound environments and listening tasks are much more complex. This session will cover how the latest noise processing not only support speech understanding, but also how it supports the brain (cognitive effort, memory recal) of clients, ultimately allowing them to feel more empowered for communicating in everyday noisy environments
12:40pm 1:25pm Matthew Grounds
Rehab: who wants it, who needs it, who delivers it?
This session will explore contemporary approaches to aural rehabilitation and offer practical tips for successful rehabilitation with adult clients. 

Holistic models of hearing health care all invoke “aural rehabilitation”. However, amid technological advances, changing demographics and disruptive competitors, the importance of rehabilitation to client outcomes is under pressure.    Furthermore, uncertainty about funding for rehabilitation through the NDIS and the Hearing Services Program is often seen as a barrier to implementing successful rehabilitation.

As we face these challenges, how do we deliver successful rehabilitation? 

This session will describe how aural rehabilitation can be promoted with clients from the outset, and how rehabilitation can be successfully integrated into every appointment program. Strategies to gain insight into clients’ motivation, psychosocial characteristics, reasons for seeking help and decision-making processes will be discussed. You will learn how to successfully involve partners, family members and work colleagues throughout the rehabilitation process. Information about  individual and group aural rehabilitation sessions   will be presented, as well as rehabilitation for minimal losses . Finally, the future of rehabilitation in audiology practice will be discussed. 
1:25pm 2:25pm Lunch
2:25pm 3:05pm Liz Winton
Cochlear implant update: A review of current research and standard of care for the adult population
Adults benefit greatly from cochlear implants. However, widespread misunderstanding exists regarding when adults should be referred for a cochlear implant and there is a tendency to overlook hearing as a major health concern.  The purpose of this presentation is to review current research on cochlear implants and the standard of care for the adult population. Topics include: predictors for postoperative outcome, the benefit of acoustic stimulation for residual hearing (Hybrid Hearing and bimodal), and single-sided deafness (SSD).
3:05pm 3:50pm John Nikolarakos
A Recipe for Teleaudiology Success
Presenters from Australian Hearing will provide an introduction to teleaudiology and its use in clinical practice within a service model provided under the Hearing Branch’s (previously known as the Office of Hearing Services) contract. The tools and procedures used to implement the service will be outlined, and the challenges and some solutions that are faced when using teleaudiology will be discussed. Some initial results from client surveys will also be shared.
3:50pm 4:15pm Afternoon Tea
4:15pm 5:15pm Journal Club
This interactive session is designed to support audiologists to keep on top of some of the latest research and explore their implications on clinical practise in a supportive and collaborative setting.  
5:15pm 6:15pm Networking Drinks

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Post Conference Workshop 1

Sunday 25th March 2018⁠⁠

Optional - Limited to 30 Participants
Additional Charges Apply

 9:30am  10:00am 

 Registration & Arrival

  10:00am


12:30pm

Integrative Medicine for recovery of persistent vertigo and tinnitus.
Facilitated by Joey Remenyi
Learn about the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of healing for clients with persistent symptoms.

In this workshop learn techniques that engage the holistic aspects of neuroplasticty and support healing.




Post Conference Workshop 2 

Sunday 25th March 2018

⁠Optional - Limited to 16 Participants
Additional Charges Apply

 1:30pm  2:00pm 

 Registration & Arrival

  2:00pm


4:00pm

Wax Management
Facilitated by Dr John Vorrath
This workshop addresses the need for audiologists to provide wax removal by the techniques of micro suction and curettage enabling them to perform these services within their practice.





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