Topic: Auditory Fitness for Duty

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When: May 21, 2025 at 2:00pm ET

CEUs: 1-hour CEU (AAA and 0.1 ASHA CEU)

About the Webinar: Three researchers will review strategies that have been used to assess hearing fitness for duty in occupational and military populations. Presenters will discuss job task analysis as it relates to communication and auditory signals, test development and the concept of functional hearing assessment and how that may differ from tests typically used in hearing conservation programs.

Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, the user should be able to:

1.    Describe what constitutes a hearing-critical task.
2.    Discriminate between a hearing threshold test and a functional hearing test.
3.    Identify at least one hearing test that has been used to assess functional hearing performance.

Program Level: Intermediate

Satisfactory completion requirement statement: Requirements to satisfactorily complete this webinar and qualify to obtain CEU credits are as follows: 1) learners must be present during the entire presentation. 2) Learners must provide answers to the 5 assessment questions provided with satisfactory results. 3) To qualify for AAA CEUs, Learners must provide the password that will be provided during the presentation.

Presenters: Douglas Brungart, Ph.D., Odile Clavier, Ph.D., Christian Giguère, Ph.D.

Douglas Brungart, Ph.D.
Dr. Brungart is the Chief Scientist of the National Military Audiology and Speech Pathology Center at Walter Reed. From 1993 to 2009, he was a research engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory with research focusing on advanced auditory displays for spatial and speech information. Since 2009, he has been at Walter Reed focusing on the application of advanced technology to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss and other hearing and speech disorders. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Odile Clavier, Ph.D.
Dr. Odile Clavier received her master’s and Ph.D. from Stanford University in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Since joining Creare, she has been the Principal Investigator for several biomedical applications. She has led the development of innovative hearing assessment systems, such as the Wireless Automated Hearing Test System for boothless audiometry as well as the open-source TabSINT software which was designed to enable distributed studies of hearing across multiple or remote sites. Dr Clavier continues to innovate in the field of hearing research.

Christian Giguère, Ph.D.
Christian Giguère is Professor in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include speech communication and warning sound perception, hearing loss prevention, and auditory fitness for duty. Professor Giguère is active in standardization with several national (CSA, ANSI) and international (ISO) technical workgroups on topics related to occupational hearing loss, hearing protection and audiology. He is past president of the Canadian Acoustical Association (CAA) and former co-chair of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN).

Financial Disclosures: None of the three presenters have relevant financial or non-financial information to disclose.

General disclosure: This webinar is not focused on a specific product or service and there will be no or limited information about similar products or services. The subject relates directly to training methods used in hearing conservation programs and does not endorse or recommend specific products. 

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