Advanced Adult Rehabilitation

This masterclass is ideal if you have some experience working with people with hearing loss and want to improve your knowledge and rehabilitation skills.

Course dates

Sessions will be held on the following days:

Wednesday 23 October 2024
Wednesday 30 October 2024
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Wednesday 20 November 2024 (for assessments)

Overview

This course explores the following themes:

Cognition and hearing
Hearing therapies
Innovative technologies and treatments

Sessions will enable you to participate in discussions with leading experts in the field from universities in the UK and overseas, clinical audiology services and voluntary organisations. Throughout the course period there will be opportunities to interact with like-minded colleagues and the course organisers, Dr Hannah Cooper and Dr Lucy Handscomb.

Course organisers

Dr Lucy Handscomb, UCL Ear Institute
Dr Hannah Cooper, UCL Ear Institute

Course contributors

Speakers include:

Dr Bhavisha Parmar, UCL Ear Institute - Communication in Audiology: User Perspective
Helen Pryce - Hearing Loss and Patient Reported Experience (HELP) Research Project
Prof Nick Lesica, UCL Ear Institute - A Neural Coding Perspective on Hearing Aid Design
Dr Nicola Heron, Catapult Medicine Discovery - Drug Development for Hearing Loss
Clare Lazenbury and Jo Blaquiere, Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat and Eastman Dental Hospitals - Hearing Therapies
Jeanne Pring, Dementia Friends - Dementia Friends Training
Dr Siobhan Brennan, University of Manchester - Intellectual Disabilities and Hearing Loss
Dr Eithne Heffernan, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Centre - Dementia and Hearing Loss

Provisional programme