This Grand Rounds session features audiologists and speech pathologists who specialize in diagnosing and managing pediatric patients. During this course, a panel of speech and audiology professionals shares 5 clinically applicable cases that helped them grow and innovate their clinical practice. The importance of evidence-based care is highlighted to achieve the best outcomes for pediatric patients.
Click Register to watch the full course.
Watch the first six minutes of the course. Register for immediate access to the full course, which will also appear on your Pending Courses page.
Course created on July 31, 2024
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-20 Minutes | Audiologic Trends in Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Improvements in Health and Hearing |
| 20-35 Minutes | Auditory Brainstem Implant Outcomes With Congenitally Deaf Children |
| 35-50 Minutes | Thinking Beyond Ear Tubes: Bone Conduction Implants for Children with Down Syndrome |
| 50-65 Minutes | Facilitating Hearing Evaluation in Children on the Autism Spectrum |
| 65-80 Minutes | Evaluating the Speech and Language of Bilingual Children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing: Challenges, Approaches, and Recommendations |
| 80-90 Minutes | Summary & Q/A |
Gina M. Hounam, PhD is an audiologist and program manager of Audiology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Gina has practiced audiology in a variety of settings for over 23 years. Her areas of interest focused on relationship-centered care, counseling and early hearing detection and intervention. She also has years of experience grant writing for non-profits and believes in supporting community education and awareness. Her goal both as a clinician and manager has always been to help patients and families overcome obstacles associated with hearing loss and achieve their maximum potential. In her current management role, Gina now focuses on assisting staff in achieving their full potential and expanding the services and programs offered at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Holly Gerth, AuD, PASC is a pediatric audiologist and clinical leader, having practiced audiology for more than 13 years. At Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Dr. Gerth is an inpatient audiologist, responsible for answering all inpatient consults, performing diagnostic hearing evaluations in a variety of settings (Operating Room, Procedure Center, bedside testing) and managing inpatients with hearing loss. She is an active member of several multidisciplinary research projects. She has an interest in audiologic electrophysiology, universal newborn hearing screening and congenital CMV.
Lauren Durinka, AuD, is a pediatric audiologist and Evidence Based Practice Coordinator at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Hearing Science with a minor in Disability Studies from The Ohio State University. Dr. Durinka went on to complete her Doctorate in Audiology at The Ohio State University and has been practicing audiology for the last 8 years at large pediatric facilities. Dr. Durinka is passionate about providing excellent family-centered care to all patients. Her clinical interests include diagnostic evaluations, bone conduction implants, and hearing aids.
Christine Schafer, AuD, is a pediatric audiologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr Schafer received her Masters degree in Audiology from the University of Akron in 2002 and Doctor of Audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2010. She has certification in Advanced Cochlear Implant Programming from the Institute for Cochlear Implant Training (ICIT) and is a Certificate Holder- Audiology Preceptor (CH-AP) from the American Academy of Audiology. Before joining the Audiology team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Dr Schafer practiced at Memorial Hermann Children’s Hospital and The Center for Hearing and Speech, both in Houston, Texas. Her primary interests are implantable hearing devices, hearing aids and precepting audiology externs. She is one of the primary preceptors for the 4th year audiology extern; providing training and mentoring on cochlear implant programming.
Alecia Jayne, AuD, CCC/A, is a pediatric audiologist who received her AuD through the Northeast Ohio AuD Consortium (NOAC) in 2007 and joined the team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 2008. Her clinical interests include diagnostics, hearing aids, and cochlear implants. Dr. Jayne also holds her certification in Advanced Cochlear Implant Programming from the Institute for Cochlear Implant Training (ICIT).
Ursula M. Findlen, PhD is Director of Audiology Research in the Division of Clinical Therapies- Audiology Department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor-Clinical at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery. Dr. Findlen engages in clinical practice and research endeavors related to pediatric (re)habilitative audiology. Her research interests include infant diagnostics and improving outcomes of children with hearing loss through systematic quality improvement and population health endeavors.
Caitlin Cummings, PhD, CCC-SLP is a bilingual (English/Spanish) speech pathologist and clinical researcher at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She works primarily as a member of the Cleft Lip and Palate, Craniofacial, Velopharyngeal Dysfunction, and Bilingual SLP teams to provide speech, language, and resonance evaluations and intervention services for children with communication disorders. Her research interests include speech sound disorders and early intervention in young children with cleft/craniofacial anomalies, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, as well as bilingual speech sound development. Caitlin completed her Ph.D. in Speech-Language Science in May, 2024 and hopes to continue clinical practice and academic research focused on improving the communication outcomes of mono- and multi-lingual children with complex speech disorders.
Lauren Yoshihiro, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist with the Hearing Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Lauren provides specialized intervention and aural (re)habilitation for patients who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Deaf+ who require a Total Communication approach to communicate. This includes spoken language, sign language, and/or augmentative or alternative communication (AAC) methods to establish functional communication skills due to their language needs/deprivation, medical history and/or co-morbidities, or hearing and vision status. Lauren received her Master’s of Science in Speech, Language, and Learning from Northwestern University in 2018 and has been with Nationwide Children’s Hospital for 5 years. She is specialized to work with children from birth-23 years.
To ensure you are ready to participate, please complete our short Test Drive to prepare your computer to view the course.
NOTE: Full attendance for all courses is mandatory. Please view the entire course.
Passing an online exam and completing a course evaluation will be required to earn continuing education credit.
Live Webinars allow presenter and participant interaction. The exam and course evaluation for these courses must be completed within 7 days of the event.
On-demand courses include texts, video and audio recordings of live webinars, and multimedia formats. The exam and course evaluation for on-demand courses must be completed within 30 days of course registration.
To participate in the course, complete the exam and course evaluation, and earn continuing education credit, you must be a AudiologyOnline member. Participants must complete the entire course; partial credit is not allowed.
AudiologyOnline is committed to ensuring accessibility to the widest possible audience. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone. If you have questions, requests, or would like to report an accessibility-related issue, please email accessibility@continued.com. We will review your request and respond in a timely manner.
Visit our Contact us page or give us a call if you have questions.
AudiologyOnline is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.15 AAA CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy's Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.
AudiologyOnline courses are approved for Continuing Education Points by the Australian College of Audiology. Automatic ACAud Approval Number 20000. This course is offered for 1.50 CEP.
This course is offered for 1.50 hour(s) of CE Credit from the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language. For an explanation of content areas, view PDF listing all 9 domains.
This course has been accredited with 1.50 CPD point/s by the British Academy of Audiology.
The Canadian Academy of Audiology (CAA) supports and assists its members in the attainment of continuing education towards an individual professional development plan as required by their Provincial Regulatory Colleges and Provincial Associations. Audiology Online is an approved provider of educational activities for CAA members. Each hour of activity may be counted as one Continuous Learning Activity Credit (or equivalent) as allowed by the applicable regulatory college or association.
AudiologyOnline.com is approved by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board as a Continuing Professional Development Provider, approval number PDP 267. This course may meet the requirements for 1.50 hours of continuing education credit for audiologists as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. The responsibility for determining whether or not this specific course counts toward an individual's requirements for license renewal is up to the individual. Please refer to the CA state board rules regarding allowable topics and self-study limits: https://www.speechandhearing.ca.gov/licensees/slp-au_cpd_req.shtml
continued, LLC, DBA AudiologyOnline, is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). continued complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, continued is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. continued, LLC, is authorized by IACET to offer 0.20 CEUs for this program.
This program is approved by the International Hearing Society and its educational committee, the International Institute for Hearing Instruments Studies. To learn more about earning IHS CE Credit, click here.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment: Approved for 1.50 continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Audiologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. Long-Term Sponsorship number LTS-S0035.
This course is offered for 2.00 Continuing Education points through the New Zealand Audiological Society.
Clinically certified members of Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC) can accumulate continuing education equivalents (CEEs) for their participation with AudiologyOnline. One hour of coursework equals 1 CEE. All SAC members are encouraged to participate in on-going education.
