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15 Murphy WJ, Flamme GA, Meinke D,
et al. Measurement of impulse peak
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16 Hayden CSI, Ford R, and Zechmann
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17 Meinke DK and Morata TC.
Awarding and promoting excellence
in hearing loss prevention.
International Journal of Audiology
2012;51:S63–S70.
Canadian Hearing Report 2013;8(1):41-44.
The Canadian Interorganizational
Steering Group for Speech Language
Pathology and Audiology (CISG) released
these documents in French and English in
the Fall of 2012 . http://www.canadian
audiology.ca/professional.html
The reports are an expert reflection on the
state of practice, and an attempt to provide
a conceptual framework from which
clinicians and other health professionals
can approach the problem as there is a
limited amount of evidence base available.
The Canadian Academy of Audiology
(CAA) served as project liaison for this
work for the CISG (made up of CAA,
Canadian Association of Speech-Language
Pathologists and Audiologists, The
Canadian Alliance of Audiology and
Speech-Language pathology Regulators).
We wish to acknowledge the enormous,
substantially voluntary effort of the author
committee detailed below. Special thanks
go to Dr. Pam Millett who chaired the
committee, wrote large portions of the
material, found speech- language
pathology reviewers and edited the
document following review by dozens of
members of the CISG organizations and a
copywriter. We would also like to
acknowledge the contribution of Dr.
Benoit Jutras who reviewed and edited the
French translation for subject matter
quality. Congratulations and deep
gratitude go to the author committee:
Dr. Pam Millet, lead author and the chair
Canadian Guidelines on Auditory Processing Disorder
for Children and Adults / Lignes directrices canadiennes
relatives au trouble de traitement auditif chez les enfants
et les adultes
of the authorship committee, is an
associate professor at York University. She
teaches in both the Graduate Program and
the Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing Education Program. Her research
interests include the benefit of sound-field
amplification in classrooms, hearing
accessibility, the development of language
and phonological awareness, literacy
outcomes in children with cochlear
implants and technology in education. Dr.
Millet has extensive experience as an
educational audiologist and is a consultant
with school boards in the Toronto area.
Dr. Benoît Jutras is an associate professor
at the School of Speech-Language
Pathology and Audiology, University of
Montreal and researcher at the Research
Centre, Pediatric CHU Sainte-Justine,
Montreal. Dr. Jutras’ research interests
include auditory processing, comorbidity
of auditory processing disorder with other
disorders/impairments, related interventions,
as well as dichotic listening and
cortical evoked responses.
Greg Noel is vice-president and director
of audiology of the Nova Scotia Hearing
and Speech Centres, and a lecturer in the
School of Human Communication
Disorders at Dalhousie University. He has
extensive teaching and clinical experience
in the area of auditory processing disorder.
Dr. Kathy Pichora-Fuller is a full
professor in the Department of
Psychology and Scientist at The Human
Communication Laboratory, University of
Toronto. She is also an adjunct scientist at
the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and an
adjunct professor in the Faculty of
Graduate Studies at the University of
British Columbia. Prior to joining the
University of Toronto in 2002, Dr. Pichora
Fuller was a faculty member at the School
of Audiology and Speech Sciences and
director of the Institute for Hearing
Accessibility Research at the University of
British Columbia. She has also worked as
a clinical audiologist at Mount Sinai
Hospital in Toronto. Dr. Pichora-Fuller’s
research interests include the effects of
aging on auditory and cognitive
processing as well as audiological
rehabilitation for older adults.
Charlene Watson is a clinical audiologist
at the Richmond Road Diagnostic &
Treatment Centre, in Calgary, Alberta. She
has been active in promoting awareness of
auditory processing disorders in children
at the Alberta Family & Community
Resource Centre, and has been involved
in research on brainstem response
measures and auditory processing
assessment tools.
Dr. Arden Nelson is an educational
audiologist at ABC Children’s Audiology
& Hearing Services and Connect Hearing
in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has studied
cortical evoked responses in individuals
with known lesions and specializes in
providing assessments and rehabilitation
for individuals with balance deficits and
auditory processing disorder.
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