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UCL – Advanced Adult Rehabilitation
22nd October, 2025 at 9:00 am - 26th November, 2025 at 5:00 pm
This masterclass is ideal if you have some experience working with people with hearing loss and want to improve your knowledge and rehabilitation skills.
Booking now open
Course date
- Wednesday 22 October 2025
- Wednesday 29 October 2025
- Wednesday 5 November 2025
- Wednesday 12 November 2025
- Wednesday 26 November 2025 (for assessment)
Overview
This course explores the following themes:
- Cognition and hearing
- Hearing therapies
- Innovative technologies and treatments
Sessions will enable you to participate in discussions with leading experts in the field from universities in the UK and overseas, clinical audiology services and voluntary organisations. Throughout the course period there will be opportunities to interact with like-minded colleagues and the course organisers, Dr Hannah Cooper and Dr Lucy Handscomb.
Speakers include:
- Dr Bhavisha Parmar, UCL Ear Institute – Communication in Audiology: User Perspective
- Helen Pryce – Hearing Loss and Patient Reported Experience (HELP) Research Project
- Prof Nick Lesica, UCL Ear Institute – A Neural Coding Perspective on Hearing Aid Design
- Dr Nicola Heron, Catapult Medicine Discovery – Drug Development for Hearing Loss
- Clare Lazenbury and Jo Blaquiere, Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat and Eastman Dental Hospitals – Hearing Therapies
- Jeanne Pring, Dementia Friends – Dementia Friends Training
- Dr Siobhan Brennan, University of Manchester – Intellectual Disabilities and Hearing Loss
- Dr Eithne Heffernan, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Centre – Dementia and Hearing Loss