Phone: Understanding and Treating Severe and Profound Hearing Loss
Course: #26644 1 Hour
Sensorineural hearing loss represents a significant change to a set of complex physiological processes responsible for taking acoustic input and changing it into a neural code. Multiple structures and processes are affected, and the effects vary significant from patient to patient. The range and extent of the damage and the range of patient to patient variability increases as the amount of threshold loss increases. For patients with severe or profound thresholds, the ability to faithfully encode an appropriate neural code is greatly disrupted. Not only are many sounds inaudible, but those sounds that can be made intense enough to be heard may be presented to the central auditory system in a manner in which very little of the information content in the signal has been preserved. The ability to present useful information to the cognitive system in the presence of severe or profound hearing loss requires both a comprehensive understanding of the nature of these impairments and also excellent signal processing. In this seminar, the approach taken by Oticon to treat these patients in our Dynamo, Sensei SuperPower and PowerPlus products will be explained. **Please adjust volume if necessary, sound may be low at times.
Course created on November 9, 2015
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110915schumsphlosslarge.pdfLearning Outcomes
- Participants will be able to describe the range of variability in the effects of severe and profound hearing loss.
- Participants will be able to explain how nonlinear signal processing can be individually activated and adjusted to meet the individual needs of the patients in this range of loss.
- Participants will be able to discuss how to develop a decision making strategy concerning the use and adjustment of frequency composition for individual patients.
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | Nature of Severe & Profound SNHL |
| 15-25 Minutes | Variability in this clinical population |
| 25-35 Minutes | The appropriate role of nonlinear |
| 35-45 Minutes | The appropriate role of frequency lowering |
| 45-50 Minutes | Transitioning issues |
| 50-55 Minutes | Bi-modal users |
| 55-60 Minutes | Closing thoughts and Q&A |
Course Presenter
Don Schum, PhD
Vice President, Audiology and Professional Relations
Don Schum currently serves as Vice President for Audiology & Professional Relations for Oticon, Inc. In that capacity, Don has the responsibility to create and implement new Audiological training material, oversee the Audiological training of all employees, develop dispenser support materials and tools, conduct clinical research, and participate in national and international conferences. Previous to his position at Oticon in Somerset, Don served as the Director of Audiology for the main Oticon office in Copenhagen Denmark. In addition, he served as the Director of the Hearing Aid Lab at the University of Iowa School of Medicine (1990-1995) and as an Assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina (1988-1990). During his professional career, Don has been an active researcher in the areas of Hearing Aids, Speech Understanding, and Aging. Don received his B.S. in Speech & Hearing Science from the University of Illinois, his M.A. in Audiology from the University of Iowa, and his Ph.D. in Audiology from Louisiana State University.
Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by Oticon in partnership with AudiologyOnline.
Content Disclosure: This learning event focuses on Oticon products and services and will not include info on other products or services.
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