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114 - Hearing loss - options to improve communication

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Course Description: This course will focus on helping people who have hearing loss use communication strategies, technology, and their residual hearing in the most productive ways to improve their ability to communicate. Hearing loss, issues surrounding hearing aid technology, speech-reading or lip-reading, and communication repair strategies are just some of the topics to be discussed. A good course for those with hearing loss and those who communicate with someone with a hearing loss regularly. Attendees who have hearing loss are encouraged to bring their spouse or someone with whom they communicate regularly.

Course Instructor: Jeff Larsen is an audiologist certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association and is a clinical assistant professor in the Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department at USU. He works in the adult audiology clinic here on campus. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois and has practiced clinical audiology in the public schools, at a hospital, in a university clinic, and several other settings. His specialties are amplification, aural rehabilitation, speech perception, acoustics, and balance problems related to concussion.
jeffery.larsen@larsenhearing.com