Emma van Wanrooy

www.pittwaterhearing.com.au

Since 2015, Emma Van Wanrooy has run her own Independent Audiology practice on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Pittwater Hearing. Her focus is Adult Assessment and Rehabilitation including Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants for severe and complex hearing losses. She also has an interest in Auditory Processing Disorders, Single Sided Deafness and asymmetrical hearing loss. Before opening her clinic, Emma worked at SCIC (now Next Sense), Australian Hearing clinics in Bankstown and Wagga Wagga, and the National Acoustic Laboratories. In her 8 years at NAL, Emma was involved in research on Speech Perception in Noise, Outcomes for children with Hearing Impairment (The LOCHI study), Bilateral Cochlear Implants as well as developing a training program for the Bimodal Fine Tuning of hearing aids for use with Cochlear Implants. She also participated in research projects at Next Sense regarding Cochlear Implants for Single Sided hearing loss, and Tele Audiology for Cochlear Implant Mapping. Emma is a long-standing member of Independent Audiologists Australia, has previously served on IAA's volunteer Executive Committee, and is a current member of the Libby Harricks Oration Committee run by Deafness Forum Australia.