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Many clinicians feel ill-equipped to provide management services to aging adults who experience both hearing loss and bothersome tinnitus. This course describes strategies for evaluating and managing tinnitus in older patients to improve their quality of life.

This course is a recorded session from the online conference “Audiology 2017: Cutting-Edge Perspectives in Service Delivery for Older Adults.”

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Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Select self-report measures to determine whether hearing loss, tinnitus, or a combination of the two is causing the greatest activity limitations or participation restrictions for the patient
• Determine appropriate sound interventions and counseling strategies for older adults
• Describe a care path using an interprofessional, collaborative model for managing patients with tinnitus

Presenter Information

Sharon A. Sandridge, PhD, CCC-A, is the director of clinical services, co-director of the Audiology Research Laboratory, and co-director of the Tinnitus Management Clinic in the Head & Neck Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. She received her BA and MA from the University of Akron and her PhD from the University of Florida. Her primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of amplification; hearing loss prevention; treatment of tinnitus; and electrophysiology, including neurodiagnostics, intraoperative monitoring, and identification of children with hearing loss. She and her colleague, Dr. Craig Newman, have completed a number of funded-research projects and have authored a number of articles in the areas of hearing and tinnitus device technology, outcome measurement development/standardization, and electrophysiology. Currently, they are evaluating the differential benefits of hearing aids and combination (hearing aids and sound generators) devices in patients with hearing loss and tinnitus.

Financial Disclosures:

• Director of clinical services, co-director of the Audiology Research Laboratory, and co-director of the Tinnitus Management Clinic in the Head & Neck Institute at the Cleveland Clinic
• ASHA Convention topic co-chair in 2016 and 2017 and ASHA Convention co-chair for 2018
• Complementary registration to the 2015 ASHA Convention as an invited short course speaker
• Research funding from Oticon
• Financial compensation from Audiology Online for past presentations
• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• No nonfinancial relationships to the content of this presentation

Craig W. Newman, PhD, CCC-A, is a vice chair and the section head of Allied Hearing, Speech, and Balance Services in the Head and Neck Institute of the Cleveland Clinic. Newman serves as the co-director of the Audiology Research Lab and Tinnitus Management Clinic. He also holds the rank of professor in the Department of Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. His current clinical interests include tinnitus management and hearing technology. Along with Dr. Sharon Sandridge he has presented and published in the areas of hearing, dizziness, and tinnitus outcome measurement, hearing and tinnitus device technology, and precepting. He serves as associate editor (rehabilitation) for the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology and is a reviewer for a number of scholarly journals. Newman is an ASHA Fellow and was awarded the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology by the American Academy of Audiology.

Financial Disclosures:

• Section head of Allied Hearing, Speech, and Balance Services at the Cleveland Clinic
• Topic co-chair for assessment and intervention: pediatrics for the 2016 ASHA Convention and an invited short course presenter at the 2015 ASHA Convention
• Research funding from Oticon
• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation

Nonfinancial Disclosures:

• No nonfinancial relationships to the content of this presentation

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Online conference dates: October 11–23, 2017
End date: November 29, 2026

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).