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Description:

This webinar will review case history, test battery, and vestibular disease characteristics to aid audiologists in evaluating patients who report dizziness or imbalance. The presenter will discuss how to effectively use diagnostic tests available in the clinic to differentiate between unilateral peripheral conditions.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Design a vestibular function test battery based on the patient's symptoms
• Discuss the characteristic differences between unilateral peripheral diseases
• Determine supporting tests to better differentiate between results for various peripheral vestibular diseases

Related Courses

This is one of three courses in the ASHA Audiology 2025: Vestibular Assessment and Management webinar series. See all the courses in this series.

Presenter Information

Kaitlin Ryan, AuD, CCC-A (she/her/hers) graduated with her Doctorate of Audiology from Northeastern University in 2019 and had a quick launch into vestibular audiology through the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California, serving veterans across hundreds of miles. This developed into sitting on fall prevention committees, working as an audiology liaison for a geriatric interdisciplinary clinic and on teams of providers working to rehabilitate active-duty special forces service people after they sustained brain trauma. Currently, Kaitlin is working in a large hospital on a team of four vestibular audiologists in conjunction with ENT physicians to serve a significant portion of Massachusetts, helping to better characterize and understand dizziness. Prior to this, she had the opportunity to study how hearing and balance change during spaceflight as an intern at NASA, solidifying her passion for bettering the lives of others through audiology.

Disclosures:

• Financial compensation from ASHA for 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 and submit the learning assessment by the end date below.

Program History and CE Information

Content origination date: May 14, 2025
End date: May 16, 2030

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