Description

The field of pediatric audiology is always changing, with new understanding of diagnoses and management strategies. As pediatric audiologists we are called on to obtain clinical information and also to support children in their schools and homes. Added to the audiometric profiles is the ever increasing number of children with developmental differences, requiring audiologists to be ever more creative with our approaches for assessing this population. Understanding how these facets come together helps us to be better clinicians.

This one day conference will focus on current research and evidence based practice procedures for the audiological assessment and management of young and developmentally challenged children.

Speakers: 

Ryan McCreery, Ph.D.    

Boys Town National Research Hospital
“Optimizing Amplification for Children and Adolescents with Hearing Loss”

Objectives: 

1. 1. Implement audibility-based hearing aid candidacy criteria for children.
   2. Assess the quality of hearing aid fittings for children and adolescents using aided audibility and root-mean-square error.
   3. Develop outcomes protocols for children with hearing loss that reflect real world challenges for children with hearing loss.

Carrie Spangler, AuD    

empowerEAR Audiology
“Empowered Pathways: Fostering Self-Advocacy & Peer Support for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students”

Objectives: 

1. 1. Explore a self-determination model of practice for DHH middle and high school students.
   2.  Define strategies to establish and sustain peer support groups for DHH students.
   3. Identify two activities that support DHH students in advocating for their accommodations and needs as they transition to college and the workforce.

 Emma Kagel, JD, MBE, HCE-C, LPEC    

Center for Bioethics: Harvard Medical School
“What is the Most Challenging Ethical Issue About Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss? Hint: It’s Not the Science”

Objectives:

1. 1. Understand the significance and lessons from the history of hearing loss treatment approaches, decisions, and “cultures” including the baggage that comes with this particular type of disability/medical condition.
   2. Appreciate the germane choices the patient/loved ones make about lifestyle and “community” and its impact on their evaluating clinical outcomes.
   3. Evaluate gaps in delivery that should be addressed before and during rolling-out gene therapy for hearing loss.

Charlotte Mullen, AuD

Boston Children’s Hospital
“Clinical Education in Audiology: Considerations for Preceptors”

Objectives:

1. 1. Define the differences and similarities between a supervisor, preceptor and clinical educator.
   2. Differentiate between the needs and expectations of the learner with the needs and expectations of the preceptor.
   3. Describe the competency ladder and ways to promote learner autonomy.

Course Format 

This year’s course will include online or in-person registration options.

Online registrants will participate in the virtual course over Zoom. In-Person attendees will join us on October 13th at the Bentley University Conference Center in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed to meet the educational needs of audiologists who work with children and audiology students.

To register, please click on the register tab above. If this is your first time registering for a conference at Boston Children’s Hospital, you will need to create an account. Returning users can log in to their account to complete the registration process.   

Registration Type	In Person Rate	Virtual Rate
Professional	$125.00	$125.00
Trainee/Student	$50.00	$50.00

Pre-registration is required. Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email with a registration receipt. Course access instructions will be sent a few days prior to the course launch. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, please direct all inquiries to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu.

Online Course Cancellation, Transfer & Refund Policy
Due to the propriety materials and content of each course, online virtual courses orders are NOT eligible for refund, cancellation or transfer.

Other Terms and Conditions:
Online training courses may NOT be transferred to another Participant. Boston Children’s Hospital CE is not responsible for user technical difficulties including loss of internet, power outages, etc. 

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Accreditation 

 

This course is available for partial credit.

ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.

Boston Children’s Hospital is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.7 AAA CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy’s Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.