24th Auditory Management Services Seminar

 April 29, 2011 

  Mississauga, Ontario 

 

Current topics in hearing, speech and language


Classroom Applications of Current Topics in Audiology

   

This day is dedicated to updating your knowledge in a myriad of audiological topics relevant to your work with children with hearing loss. 

The focus will be the application of knowledge to your professional practices.

 

 PROGRAM

 

Registration 8:30 to 9:00 am

 

MORNING SESSION 

9:00 Auditory Plasticity: Current Findings

9:30 Implications of Otitis Media for the Classroom

             Interpretation of impedance Audiometry for the Classroom

10:00 Assessment of Listening Skills: from Preschool to Secondary

10:45 Interpretation of Audiological Findings for Case Conferences

11:15 Auditory Neuropathy/Dysynchrony

             Indicators and Implications for Management

11:40 Unilateral and Minimal Hearing Loss

 Issues for Management

 

12:00 *****Complimentary Lunch*******

 

AFTERNOON SESSION

1:00 New Developments in Cochlear Implantation

            Considerations in FM Coupling: Susan Russell

1:30 Recent Advances in Implantable Devices: Dave Gordey

2:30 Acoustics in the Classroom

            How to Become an Acoustical Advocate

3:15 Favorite Apps for the Classroom

 

 About the Speakers

Carolyne Edwards, M.Cl.Sc., M.B.A., (University of Western Ontario) is director of Auditory Management Services, a longstanding consulting practice in educational audiology for southwestern Ontario, and Faculty, Gestalt Institute of Toronto. She has lectured widely throughout Canada and United States and has written in professional journals and textbooks about educational audiology and counseling for habilitation professionals, most recently in the Comprehensive Handbook of Pediatric Audiology.

Susan Russell, M.Cl.Sc., University of Western Ontario, is a consulting educational audiologist with Auditory Management Services, Toronto, Ontario. Susan has worked as a clinical audiologist and specifically in the cochlear implant program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and later in private practice for many years, and now consults to school boards in southwestern Ontario.

Dave Gordey, is an audiologist involved in the development and implementation of the pediatric hearing aid and FM program at Oticon Canada. Dave is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia teaching Amplification for the Hard of Hearing and Deaf Student. He previously worked in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia for thirteen years as a pediatric audiologist and his professional interests include amplification, auditory processing disorders and counseling.

 

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Location: Novotel Hotel, 3670 Hurontario Street, Mississauga, Ontario
Contact Information: 1-800-668-6835 or 905-896-1000

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 REGISTRATION FORM

 

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Course Fee:  $175.00 + $ 22.75 (HST) = $ 197.75

  --------- Lunch included----------

 

Make cheque payable to Auditory Management Services and mail to: 

AMS, 186 Gladstone Avenue, Toronto ON   M6J 3L4.

 

Contact 416-346-4745 (tel) or 416-535-1411 (fax) or amslistening.com for more information.

 

No refunds for cancellations received after April 20, 2011


***THIS CONFERENCE IS APPROVED FOR 6.0  LSLS CEUs FROM A. G. BELL ACADEMY***