Event. Mastering Tympanometry

This course is designed to equip participants with the theoretical and practical understanding of how to perform tympanometry.

Lesson 1: What is tympanometry? (60 minutes)

Learning objectives

• Explain why tympanometry is important
• Describe how tympanometry is recorded
• Describe the difference between single probe tone tympanometry and wideband tympanometry

Lesson 2: Performing a tympanometry measurement (45 minutes)

Learning objectives

• List the steps involved in performing a tympanometry measurement
• Describe how to select a suitable probe fit for a tympanometry measurement
• List the different parameters that can be selected for single probe tone tympanometry and wideband tympanometry measurements

Lesson 3: Tympanometry results and interpretation (45 minutes)

Learning objectives

• Describe the different elements of a recorded tympanogram
• Describe how to access different results component views with the tympanometry software
• Describe key quality indicators within a single probe tone and wideband tympanogram

Course presenters

Amanda Goodhew

Amanda holds a Master's degree in Audiology from the University of Southampton. She has extensive experience holding senior audiologist positions in numerous NHS hospitals and clinics, where her primary focus has been pediatric audiology. Her specific areas of interest include electrophysiology (in particular ABR, ASSR and cortical testing), neonatal diagnostics and amplification and the assessment and rehabilitation of patients with autism and complex needs. Amanda has a particular interest in pediatric behavioral assessment and has twice held the Chairperson position for the South London Visual Reinforcement Audiometry Peer Review Group. Amanda also works as an independent technical assessor for the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, undertaking quality assessment for audiological services throughout the UK, and provides guest lecturing services to universities both in the UK and abroad.

Leigh Martin

Leigh Martin is a British Audiologist and adjunct lecturer at the University of Cork, Ireland. Clinically, he has worked in the National Health Service specializing in paediatric audiology as well as vestibular diagnostics and rehabilitation. Leigh has also sat on the board of directors for the British Academy of Audiology. Since 2013, Leigh has supported the growth and development of the Interacoustics Academy and holds the position of Global Manager of the Academy. Leigh has presented at numerous scientific conferences and meetings across a diverse range of audiological topics as well as having published papers in both video head impulse testing (vHIT) and wideband tympanometry.

Dr. Lisa Hunter, Ph.D.

Lisa Hunter is the scientific director for Audiology in the Communication Sciences Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and a professor of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati. Dr Hunter has more than 25 years of pediatric clinical, research, and teaching experience. A graduate and former faculty member of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Minnesota, she developed and directed the AuD program at the University of Utah. She was a visiting scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and has volunteered in Kenya on audiologic missions at a school for the deaf. Dr Hunter has authored more than 90 published articles, chapters, and books in pediatric audiology and frequently lecture nationally and internationally, as well as serving on expert panels and task forces. Dr Hunter is currently conducting studies on a range of pediatric hearing loss, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). She also serves as chair of the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE).