Behavioral Hearing Testing in Infants and Young Children

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  Angela Bonino
  PhD, CCC-A

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  Dr. Angela Yarnell Bonino, 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 focuses 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.

  Financial Disclosures: Dr. Bonino receives compensation as Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has a research grant from NIH as well as the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Foundation. She also receives compensation to teach this course.

  Non-financial Disclosures: Dr. Bonino is an editorial board member for JSLHR.

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  Anne Marie Tharpe
  PhD, CCC-A

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  Dr. Anne Marie Tharpe is Professor and Chair, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has been chair of the department since 2009. Prior to that time, she served as a clinical audiologist working with children with hearing loss and their families for 14 years before turning to a research career. Specifically, she has explored behavioral auditory assessment approaches, developmental impacts of minimal and mild hearing loss on children, interventions for children with hearing loss and additional disabilities, and more recently, the use of hearing technologies in the homes of children with hearing loss and children with autism spectrum disorder. Although her current administrative role consumes much of her time, she continues running a research laboratory and teaching graduate students at Vanderbilt about issues related to childhood hearing loss. Her current research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and hearing technology industry. She also has training grant support from the U.S. Department of Education, is faculty for Vanderbilt’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND), and contracts with the Tennessee Department of Health, Early Intervention Services.

  Financial Disclosures: Dr. Tharpe receives compensation as Professor & Chair, Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has a research grant from NIH as well as the LEND Grant funded through the Maternal & Child Health Bureau. She receives compensation as Chair of the Pediatric Research Advisory Board at Phonak, Inc. She contracts with the Tennessee Department of Health for Early Intervention Services. She also receives compensation to teach this course. She is co-editor of the Comprehensive Handbook of Pediatric Audiology.

  Non-financial Disclosures: Dr. Tharpe serves on the Board of Trustees at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Foundation. She is a Board Member and Chair of the Grants & Scholarship Committee at TAASLP Foundation. She also co-authored the article for Oticon, Incorporating Functional Auditory Measures into Pediatric Practice.