Newborn Hearing Screening - The science behind screening OAE and Automated ABR
Event Details
Course introduction: We invite you to join us for an eSeminar discussing the technology behind newborn and infant hearing screening and evaluating the performance of these tests based on their
Event Details
Course introduction:
We invite you to join us for an eSeminar discussing the technology behind newborn and infant hearing screening and evaluating the performance of these tests based on their sensitivity, specificity, pathways, function and benefits. No screening test is perfect but understanding how they work, which part of the auditory pathway is being assessed and how conditions of the environment impacts on the screening results.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this seminar the participants will be able to:
• Discuss the working of screening with TEOAE, DPOAE and AABR
• Describe the application of screening tests in newborn and infant hearing screening
• Explain and compare the auditory pathway associated with TEOAE, DPOAE and AABR
CEUs:
This course is valid for 1.0 CE Contact hours.
Required provider statement – mark the correct one or add the one to be used
Natus Medical Incorporated is a Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 16614, for 1.0 contact hours
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Speakers for this event
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Dr. Alida Naudé
Dr. Alida Naudé
Ph.D., (UP) AuD
Alida Naudé is a diagnostic, research, and training audiologist working at Amtronix Diagnostics and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She received her doctorate in audiology from the University of Pretoria in 2015, for which she received the CAAC Semantic Compaction Systems Award for the best research project. At the end of 2016, she completed her post doctorate fellowship at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Special areas of expertise and research include ethics and personal development, evoked potentials, vestibular audiology and ototoxicity. She has authored more than 15 articles in accredited journals and has also served as the editor of a special journal edition about ethics in conjunction with international researchers. She also co-authored a research methodology book which is based on work emanating from both her PhD as well as from her post-doctoral work. She is a certified NLP and Life Coach with special interest in engaging emotional and creative intelligence to enhance the capacity of people to be aware of, control and express their emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. She is an active member of the Gauteng Baby Project, working towards the implementation of UNHS in South Africa and regularly presents workshops related to screening and diagnostic follow up audiological services. Currently she is busy with her graduate certificate in animal audiology.
Ph.D., (UP) AuD
Time
(Thursday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Location
ONLINE eSeminar
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