Pediatric Audiology Strategies and Systems Lab

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About the Lab

Lab Director

Marlene Bagatto
bagatto@nca.uwo.ca

Activities within the Pediatric Audiology Strategies and Systems Laboratory relate to policy and practice integration for infants and children who have hearing loss. We collaborate with professionals and programs to integrate evidence with practice, to develop and validate protocols for pediatric audiologists, and to advocate for systems of care for infants and children who have hearing loss.

Lab Members

Marlene Bagatto

Marlene Bagatto

Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Pediatric audiology
  • Infact hearing assessment and hearing loss management
  • Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs
  • Unilateral hearing loss in children
  • Bone conduction hearing devices
  • Best practice protocols
  • Implementation science
Krystal Beh

Krystal Beh

Research Audiologist

  • Pediatric assessment and amplification
  • Ontario Infant Hearing Program Designated Training Centre
  • Industry-sponsored research
Christine Brown

Christine Brown

Clinical Audiologist, Ontario Infant Hearing Program/H.A. Leeper Speech and Hearing Clinc

  • Infant Hearing Program
  • Pediatric audiology assessment and interviews
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Ben Chanda

Research Assistant

Students

Bavadharani (Bavi) Venkatesan

Bavadharani (Bavi) Venkatesan

PhD candidate in Hearing Science

  • Evidence based practice in hearing aid verification
  • Integrated knowledge translation
  • Competency skills in Audiology
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Eileen Webster

Combined AuD/PhD Student

  • Bone conduction hearing aids for pediatric populations, specifically verification and outcome measures for these devices
  • Unilateral hearing loss in pediatric populations
  • Newborn hearing screening

Lab Alumni

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Olivia (Daub) Bailey

Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Early hearing detection and intervention systems and services, particularly spoken language outcome monitoring and service evaluation (developing sustainable data collection and retention systems)

Publications and Clinical Protocols

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Participate in a Research Study

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