The proportion of challenging pediatric cases is on the rise. This course features clinicians from Boston Children’s Hospital describing tactics that can be used to improve the quality and quantity of audiometric test information obtained through behavioral testing.

Many experienced clinicians assume management roles during their career, even though they often have no formal business management training. Using information from the recently published Audiology Practice Management text from Thieme Press, this course reviews three essential business principles & skills that enable busy clinicians to successfully step into this multi-tasking role and become effective business managers while also continuing to work clinically.

Audiologic counseling for adult patients includes an understanding and effective use of patient-centered care (PCC) and family-centered care (FCC). This course will review evidence-based principles of PCC and FCC, and apply them to audiologic practices.

Social and emotional development is often overlooked in our academic-focused education systems yet the impact of social-emotional well-being for children who are deaf and hard of hearing has a significant impact on school performance and post-school outcomes. This presentation will focus on identity, self-concept, social communication, self-determination and self-advocacy as part of the educational program.

This course will discuss improved outcomes following cochlear implantation (CI) and the use of CI as an option for patients with single-sided deafness (SSD). Tools to determine subjective sound quality of CI will be reviewed.

Computer models can be used to predict hearing threshold shifts from amplified music exposure. We estimated safe output limits and corresponding free-field exposure limits for listening to music with hearing amplification by minimizing permanent and temporary threshold shifts.

A discussion of hearing loss in older adults and its relationship to dementia and cognitive decline, based on the findings of current research.

This course discusses best practices care for the music industry. From recommended diagnostic procedures to seeing a band backstage at a venue, attendees will learn how to modify best practices to suit clinical and “real world” situations.

The course will provide clinicians with a framework for evaluating and treating tinnitus patients, including counseling for Thoughts and Emotions, Hearing, Sleep and Concentration difficulties. It will include the application of hearing aids, and wearable and non-wearable sound therapy devices.

This course will provide an overview of cochlear synaptopathy and the potential functional consequences of this pathology. Implications of this research for musicians and other performing artists with loud sound exposure will be discussed.