Phone: Frequency Lowering Amplification: Function, Clinical Applications, and Practical Tips
Course: #23076 6 Hours
This is a three-part course on frequency lowering hearing aid technology, featuring an engaging question and answer format with leading experts in the topic area. It covers detailed descriptions of how the various applications of frequency lowering work, candidacy, clinical fitting tips, pitfalls, verification, and common questions. It summarizes much of the evidence to date, and provides expert opinion to questions where the literature is yet incomplete. It is a comprehensive resource for audiologists who fit amplification.
Course created on August 28, 2013
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Learning Outcomes
- Participants will be able to list and explain several fitting considerations for frequency lowering hearing technology such as setting MPO, settings for music, frequency lowering and dead regions, matched/mismatched bilateral fittings, and others.
- Participants will be able to discuss key studies that looked at clinical questions with frequency lowering technology, and also to indicate areas where there is a lack/need of research with this technology.
- As a result of this Continuing Education Activity, participants will be able to describe some basic guidelines for fitting frequency lowering including general candidacy, programming, and potential pitfalls.
- After this course learners will be able to discuss considerations for verifying frequency lowering technology.
Agenda
| 0-60 Minutes | The Highs and Lows of Frequency Lowering Amplification |
| 60-120 Minutes | The Ins and Outs of Frequency Lowering Amplification |
| 120-360 Minutes | Frequency Lowering - the Whole Shebang |
Course Presenters
H. Gustav Mueller, PhD
Professor of Audiology, Vanderbilt University
Dr. H. Gustav Mueller is Professor of Audiology, Vanderbilt University and also holds faculty positions with the University of Northern Colorado and Rush University. He is the Senior Audiology consultant for Siemens Hearing Instruments and Contributing Editor for AudiologyOnline. Dr. Mueller is a Founder of the American Academy of Audiology and a Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association. He has published extensively in the areas of diagnostic audiology and hearing aid applications, and has co-authored several books, including the Audiologists’ Desk Reference (Volumes I and II), Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids, and most recently Modern Hearing Aids. Gus is the co-founder of the popular website www.earTunes.com, and resides on a North Dakota island, just outside of Bismarck.
Joshua M. Alexander, PhD
Joshua M. Alexander is an assistant professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his Ph.D. in Audiology (psychoacoustics) and post-doctoral training in speech perception at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Before coming to Purdue, he completed both clinical and post-doctoral fellowships at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Professor Alexander’s research interests focus on auditory processes contributing to speech perception deficits in hearing-impaired listeners and signal processing to overcome them. Ongoing projects in his Experimental Amplification Research (EAR) laboratory include work on frequency-lowering techniques, wide dynamic range compression, and speech enhancement techniques.
Susan Scollie, PhD
Associate Professor and a Faculty Scholar, National Centre for Audiology, Western University
Dr. Susan Scollie is an Associate Professor and a Faculty Scholar at the National Centre for Audiology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. With colleagues, she developed version 5.0 of the DSL Method for hearing aid fitting. Her current research focuses on the evaluation of DSL5, frequency compression signal processing, and outcomes for infants and children who use hearing aids.
Joshua Alexander: Financial: Research discussed in this course includes the following for Joshua Alexander: NIH-NIDCD R01 grant DC004300-13 (Patricia Stelmachowicz); NIH P30 Research Core grant DC004662-11 (Boys Town National Research Hospital); NIH T32 training grant DC0000-13 (Boys Town National Research Hospital); NIH-NIDCD RC1 challenge grant DC010601 (sub-awarded to Joshua Alexander) Non-Financial: Joshua Alexander has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Susan Scollie: Financial: Susan Scollie is employed by University of Western Ontario (UWO). Two of the tests and one prescriptive method described in this course are licensed by UWO to interested manufacturers. The proceeds from licensure are returned to the university and used to support future research. Susan Scollie receives no personal income from these transfers. She also holds a research contract for studies of frequency compression, which is one of the technologies discussed in this course.Non-Financial: Susan Scollie has no non-financial relationships to disclose.
Content Disclosure: This learning event does not focus exclusively on any specific product or service.
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