Amanda Headley - Primary Presenter,POC
Vanderbilt University
Credentials: B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Amanda Headley is an international student from Trinidad and Tobago pursuing her Doctor of Audiology at Vanderbilt University; she earned her B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a third year graduate student at Vanderbilt, Amanda is completing a specialty track in pediatric Audiology and is passionate about providing clinical services to underserved populations in developing countries. She has successfully completed her pediatric traineeship in the Vanderbilt Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program and enjoys serving children and special needs populations. Her research interests include language and developmental outcomes in children with hearing loss. |
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Emily Fustos - Co-Presenter,POC
Vanderbilt University
Credentials: B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Emily Fustos is currently a third year Audiology doctoral student at Vanderbilt University. She earned her B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders as well as Minors in Business and Psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 2012. During her first year at Vanderbilt, she served as a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) long-term trainee in 2012-2013. She is currently completing the pediatric specialty track at Vanderbilt University and is passionate about establishing a future career as a pediatric audiologist. She began working as a research assistant for the Listening and Learning Lab at Vanderbilt's Bill Wilkerson Center in August 2013. Her primary clinical and research interests are in serving children with hearing loss, specializing in cochlear implants and bimodal (hearing aid and cochlear implant) users. |
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Fred Bess - Author
Vanderbilt University
Credentials: Ph. D. in Audiology, Director the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication; Professor of Audiology in the Vanderbilt Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences.
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Fred H. Bess, PhD, is Director the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication and Professor of Audiology in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences. He served as Chair of the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences from 1978 until 2009. Dr. Bess completed his undergraduate education at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, his Master’s at Vanderbilt University, and his Ph.D. in Audiology at the University of Michigan. In 1969 he initiated and directed the Audiology Program at Central Michigan University, remaining there until joining Vanderbilt faculty in 1976. He has authored over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, and books dealing with hearing and hearing impairment. Also numbering over one hundred are professional papers presented at scholarly meetings throughout the country. He has been principal investigator or project director for several million dollars in privately and federally funded research, training and demonstration grants. |
Samantha Gustafson - Author
Vanderbilt University
Credentials: Au.D., CCC-A
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Samantha Gustafson, AuD, CCC-A, is currently a PhD student at Vanderbilt University. She earned her B.S. in Speech and Hearing Science (2008) and her Doctorate of Audiology (2012) from Arizona State University. During her graduate studies, she worked as a research assistant in the Pediatric Amplification Lab at Arizona State University and also trained at Boys Town National Research Hospital in the Hearing Aid Research Lab. Samantha completed her clinical externship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital where she also served as a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) trainee. Her past research experiences include the effectiveness of advanced signal processing in children's hearing aids, procedures for incorporating real-ear measures into hearing aid fittings, and clinical measures of middle ear pathology in typically developing infants and children with Down syndrome. Her research interests are in individualizing audiological approaches to fit hearing aids for children with varying cognitive and developmental disabilities. |
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