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AuD
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AuD, CCC-A
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AuD, CCC-A
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PhD
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Anna Smith
MS
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Melissa Freund
BS
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AuD
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CLSSBB, CMP, CLP
Continuing Education Producer
Featured Presenters
AudiologyOnline instructors and guest editors are skilled clinicians and industry leaders whose courses consistently receive top ratings from our members.
Haley Kuck is an audiology graduate student at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. She is a 2021 graduate of the Oklahoma Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program. She is passionate about partnering with patients and their families to ensure they receive the highest quality hearing healthcare.
Gina Richardson, MS, CCPS is the Assistant Director at the Oklahoma State Department of Health for the SoonerStart-Early Intervention Program-Part C. Gina has over 17 years with the SoonerStart program working with infants and toddlers and their families with developmental delays and disabilities as a Child Development Specialist, Technical Supervisor and currently the Assistant Director. Gina is a former adjunct instructor at the University of Central Oklahoma in the Human Environmental Science Department and a Certified Child and Parenting Specialist. It is with great pleasure that Gina has served children and families in Oklahoma for over 22 years.
David Welch has a background in psychology and auditory neurophysiology, and is interested and active in the area of community audiology. He has an interest in noise and its impacts on health, including noise-induced hearing loss, but also on health more broadly. In this, he has an active role in the Dangerous Decibels programme for reducing noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus. He is currently Head of Audiology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.