Post Symposium Workshops
Hearing Aid Update – Technologies & Outcomes Workshop
In conjunction with the 7th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences, Society for Audiology Professionals (Singapore) is organizing the Hearing Aid Update – Technologies & Outcomes.
Gone are the days of analogue hearing aids as audiology professionals and consumers welcome the digital age with open arms. The recent years have seen an explosion of digital hearing instruments in the market worldwide. Manufacturers diligently introduce new technologies in their wide range of hearing instruments, promising superior performance in more challenging listening environments. Many a times, dispensing audiologists are caught in the middle about the true benefits these enhanced signal processing strategies and features can offer consumers. Many rely on anecdotal reports while others depend on specification data materials.
This exciting workshop will focus on the current “state-of-the-art” digital hearing aid technology and how it influences consumer outcomes. Participants will gain a better understanding about the validity of manufacturers’ claims encompassing improved signal processing schemes and features such as adaptive directionality, speech enhancement and frequency lowering techniques.
Lecture topics include: -
- What’s really new in hearing aids?
- Directional microphones in the real world?
- Is there really an (old) age effect?
- Is improved speech perception possible?
- “Open” fitting effects?
- Pediatric outcomes
Download the latest Topics to be Covered here and the course flyer here.
Early registration is encouraged to confirm your reservation.
| Date: | 5th December 2009 |
| Time: | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Venue: | Post Graduate Medical Institute Block 6 Level 1 Singapore General Hospital |
| Speaker: | Professor Ruth Bentler |
Registration Fee |
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| Early-Bird Offer: (Before 15 Nov 2009) |
SGD $195.00 |
| Normal Registration: (After 15 Nov 2009) |
SGD $245.00 |
Closing Date for Registration : 3 December 2009 |
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To register, please fill up the registration form and send it back to the Secretariat.
- Download the PDF registration form here.
- You may also register at the workshop website at www.audiology.org.sg
About the Speaker
Ruth Bentler obtained her PhD in Speech & Hearing Sciences from the University of Iowa in 1987, where she is now a Professor of Audiology. Dr. Bentler is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology, as well as a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the International Society of Audiology. She is Director of AuD Studies at the University of Iowa where she teaches graduate students in courses related to hearing aids and adult auditory rehabilitation. As the Director of the Hearing Aid Laboratory for Basic and Applied Research within the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dr. Bentler has been involved in numerous research endeavors involving directional microphones, digital noise reduction, and, most currently, frequency lowering algorithms. She has authored over 100 articles and chapters related to hearing aid technology and fitting practices. Outside of the academic setting, she is the Global Director of the Hearing Aid Program for Special Olympics International, and the Co-Director of the Iowa China Project.
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 Ruth Bentler |