Webinar 16: Cochlear Implant/Listening Fatigue

Content

SSC was pleased to offer this free and accessible webinar on 'Listening fatigue - Future of cyborg generations research' sponsored by MED-EL, Hearing2Learn Ltd, iHear and Cochlear. This webinar included presentations and a live Q&A panel involving all the presenters listed below. We hope this webinar offered timely support, a forum for discussion, signposting, ideas etc to help professionals in deaf education support learners, and the educational settings, manage the additional listening fatigue that will be experienced in the classrooms this school year.

Target Audience

Teachers of Deaf, Teachers of Multi-Sensory Impairment, Audiologists, Education Audiologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Education Support staff and Early Years Practitioners.

Keynote Speaker

Dr Helen Willis was completely deafened by meningococcal meningitis as a toddler and received a cochlear implant (CI) at the age of three. Helen was educated orally, initially in a Hearing Impaired Resource Base in a mainstream primary school and then at Mary Hare School for the Deaf. She also learnt sign language and is comfortable using BSL. Helen gained a First Class Honours Degree in Physiology and Psychology and an MSc in Neuroscience from Oxford University (St John's College). She completed her PhD in Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences at University College London (UCL) in 2018. Her research was funded by Action on Hearing Loss and Cochlear UK. The key focus was exploring means to measure listening effort experienced by CI users. Helen's current interest is the influence of the subconscious mind on health and well-being.

• Soothing Stress Strategies

Sponsors

We are very grateful that this webinar was free and fully accessible with BSL Interpreting and captioning. This was made possible by generous funding provided by our sponsors. The sponsors contributed short, non-commercial presentations in this Webinar.