Communication Sciences and Disorders

Life as a Military Audiologist and Application of Evidence-Based Practice Presenter: Patrick Pead, Au.D., CCC-A, CPS/A Abstract: Military audiology is more-often-than-not encountering scenarios in which you deal with non-traditional audiologic cases. Performing 700 air-conduction audiograms in an austere environment, bedside vestibular assessments in tactical vehicles, and tinnitus management/habilitation for service members with normal hearing thresholds became common place. There is not a...

Bruce Tomblin, PhD Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Language is often viewed as one of the signal attributes of humans. It is a universal property of humans that is acquired easily during early childhood with no formal instruction. During this time some children are more adept at language learning than others. These individual differences in language development have the potential of affecting children’s well-being. This talk will provide an overview of a...