Considered the greatest global social and health challenge of the century, senile dementia is on the rise with considerable resources targeted toward reducing incidence and delaying onset. Identifying modifiable risk factors including lifestyle factors and age related hearing loss can help reduce the social, health and economic costs.


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This talk will provide the context for which telemedicine, machine learning, hearing science and other advances will shape who will be the new consumers of hearing healthcare, how they will receive treatment, and what those treatments may look like.


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Even with universal newborn screening and comprehensive follow-up, we often observe families struggling to commit to amplification and intervention. Recognizing the need to enhance our conventional approach to family care, a team of audiologists recently considered how to engage with families more effectively to understand their concerns.


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This session will provide a review of the standard vestibular assessment battery used to assess the dizzy patient and an introduction to non-routine clinical vestibular assessments.


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Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to identify and manage one's own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, which is an important skill for all audiologists to have.


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Everyday an individual on the Autism Spectrum is required to simultaneously navigate a world of unpredictable social interactions, unexpected events, multi-modal sensory stimuli , language full of words with variable meanings accompanied by facial and body cues from the speaker.


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The session will frame audiology practice within a multicultural context, referencing relevant epidemiology, demographic profiling, cultural and linguistic considerations and most importantly cross-cultural service delivery.


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There is a need for international expert consensus and guidelines as a necessary step to improve the quality and consistency of care for adults living with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. Standard of Care is intended to provide health care professionals, patients, researchers, payers, and other impacted parties with the mechanisms to deliver the best possible health outcomes for these patients. This presentation will give an overview of the development of the Standard of Care for adults with a severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss and how Cochlear is involved in this process. In order to develop the Standard of Care, an independent, international, expert panel has been established to undertake a Delphi process as a step towards international expert consensus regarding the treatment of adults with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. The presentation will also outline the steps involved in this evidence-based process.


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At Hear and Say our interdisciplinary team of clinical specialists work collaboratively in order to provide children with hearing loss the best possible access to spoken language through the use of optimally fitted hearing technology. In partnership with the child's family, our goal is to enable children who are deaf/hearing-impaired to reach their full potential and participate and contribute to mainstream society. We will use case studies to demonstrate how we work together as a team in the management of complex cases. Case studies will include the management of children with varying degrees of hearing loss and a range hearing technology, as well as a child with severe additional disabilities.


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Cognitive impairment and sensory loss are two of the leading contributors to non-fatal disease burden among older Australians. Critically, age-related hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline, and some have suggested this link to be causal and modifiable. This talk will cover the latest cognitive ageing and dementia epidemiology, describe their progression over the lifecourse, and identify the most widely recognised risk-factors for dementia prevention. A key focus will be to review hypotheses proposed to explain the link between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and appraise the current evidence in support of hearing healthcare as a viable intervention for reducing dementia risk.


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