Join Boys Town National Research Hospital Research Champions Network for the third Meet The Scientist talk, a series of presentations featuring Boys Town Researchers addressing issues of concern for clinicians. Ryan McCreery, Ph.D. will present "Optimizing Amplification for Children and Adolescents Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing."
The goal of our research program is to improve developmental outcomes for children who are hard of hearing and use hearing aids. In this presentation, I will discuss a line of research that was conducted over the last 12 years focusing on auditory, linguistic, and cognitive outcomes for a large group of children who use hearing aids.
Cumulative auditory experience describes the amount of speech audibility and device use that a child who uses hearing aids has over time and can be improved through audiological intervention. In the first part of the presentation, we will focus on how audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and teachers of the deaf can optimize cumulative auditory experience. In the second part of the presentation, we will focus on how cumulative auditory experience affects speech perception in noise, language, cognitive, and academic outcomes.
Program Agenda
12:00 PM – Introductions
12:05 PM – Presentation by Dr. Ryan McCreery
12:45 PM – Questions and Discussion
12:55 PM – Survey Completion
1:00 PM – Presentation Concludes
Learner Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Identify components of cumulative auditory experience in children who use hearing aids.
- Understand risk factors for limited audibility and device use in children who use hearing aids.
- Implement outcome measures that reflect individual differences in auditory experience.
About Ryan McCreery, Ph.D.
Ryan McCreery is Director of Research at Boys Town National Research Hospital where he is also Director of the Audibility, Perception and Cognition Laboratory and Director of the Center for Audiology. Dr. McCreery completed his Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he researched bottom-up and top-down processing of auditory information in children.
His lab’s current research is focused on various aspects of hearing, hearing amplification, language processing and language development. Dr. McCreery’s research has contributed to our understanding of the importance of cumulative auditory experience on language and sensory development. Findings from Dr. McCreery’s research are directly related to clinical outcomes and have led to optimized clinical protocols for fitting hearing aids in kids with hearing loss.
Dr. McCreery has authored 56 peer reviewed publications and has numerous research collaborations. He is a regular speaker at scientific and clinical meetings and is an active member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Because of his significant scientific and professional contributions, Dr. McCreery was recognized in 2020 with a prestigious ASHA Fellowship.
Boys Town National Research Hospital is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.1 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.