This talk will present the results of a multi-stage, multi-method conducted as part of a Department of Health-funded study aimed at establishing effective eligibility criteria for hearing aid fitting under the Hearing Services Program. This abstract was accepted for inclusion in the 2020 conference, which was delayed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jun 16, 2022
This talk will present the results of a Delphi Review conducted as part of a Department of Health-funded study aimed at establishing effective outcome measures for the Hearing Services Program. This abstract was accepted for inclusion in the 2020 conference, which was delayed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jun 16, 2022
The use of hearing thresholds to determine eligibility for hearing devices may be nonoptimal. This study is developing a proposal for new eligibility criteria to better target hearing devices to those clients who are likely to get benefit from them.
Jun 2, 2021
This talk will present an overview of a recent Department of Health-funded project exploring the establishment of standardised outcome domains for the assessment of hearing rehabilitation. It will be presented by Melanie Ferguson.
Jun 2, 2021
Telehealth is an attractive option for the delivery of hearing services, particularly in a pandemic. Delivering fitting follow-ups remotely does not seem to reduce the clinical outcomes obtained by patients. However, barriers remain to implementing these services in practice. This is a poster presentation.
May 17, 2021
With driverless cars on the streets, computers that follow our voice commands, and robots performing brain surgery, some days it can feel like we are living in the future. However, the world of the modern audiologist – a patient pressing a button when they hear a beep and wearing an amplifier on their ear – would not be unfamiliar to audiologists of fifty years ago. With more and more people living with hearing difficulties every year, researchers, futurists, and technological entrepreneurs are all searching for the next big “disruptor” in audiological practice. But where are they looking? What are they finding? And in another fifty years, will audiology still be as familiar to us?
Oct 16, 2020
This study aimed to determine whether, through the use of deep neural networks, it was possible to predict indicators of ear disease from air conduction thresholds. The model performed significantly better than chance, with an accuracy similar to that of commonly-used history questionnaires.
Jun 19, 2020
While there are plenty of connected hearing health options available to hearing services providers, very few of these are being used. So what drives hearing service staff to choose to use or refuse these services?
Jun 11, 2020
This study aimed to describe how young people and their family members describe the roles of family members in rehabilitative audiological health care. The perspectives of four mothers of people with hearing loss were presented, highlighting the ways in which they described their experience of time in their children's hearing loss journey. Please note that the content of this talk as presented differed significantly from the abstract as originally presented.
Oct 30, 2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the educational, employment, and personal life-courses of Australian young adults living with hearing loss, and compare their life satisfaction with a nationally representative sample of their peers. Through a better understanding of the life course of young adults with hearing loss, audiologists can better tailor audiological rehabilitation to the challenges that their young adult patients face during this period of their lives.
May 23, 2018