Hearing Assessment and Intervention for Infants and Children who have Developmental Disabilities

Title: Hearing Assessment and Intervention for Infants and Children who have Developmental Disabilities

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Description:

Infants and children who have developmental disabilities are at risk for late or missed identification of reduced hearing. This problem exists even though many developmental disabilities are known to have a higher risk of reduced hearing than seen for the general population. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss gaps in hearing assessment practices for infants and children who have developmental disabilities. This presentation will emphasize developmentally-informed strategies that can be used during a hearing evaluation. This talk will primary focus on data from children who have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, or intellectual disabilities.

Learning Objectives

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• • • Be familiar with the risk of reduced hearing seen for children who have autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and intellectual disability.
    • Be able to describe disparities experienced by infants and children who have developmental disabilities in their access to gold-standard hearing assessment (audiogram, ABR).
    • Be able to summarize developmentally-informed strategies that can be implemented into clinical practice when working with children who have developmental disabilities.

Presenter: Angela Bonino

Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed her clinical training in audiology at Vanderbilt University, and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was previously on faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Bonino’s research expertise is in human auditory development with behavioral methods. Current research is focused on advancing hearing health care for children with developmental disabilities by identifying gaps in clinical care and improving behavioral hearing assessment procedures. This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.

This webinar was previously provided live on March 1, 2024.