SEN Jigsaw Conference Speaker Spotlight - Dr Michelle Foster
This Thursday (7th July), the inaugural meeting of The SEN Jigsaw Conference will take place in Leek Staffordshire. This week we spotlight another speaker, Libby Hill.
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| The SEN Jigsaw Conference Agenda |
I will share some of the abstracts from the speakers of this currently sold out meeting and give you the link to be able to contact them if you would like to know more and can't make the SEN Jigsaw Conference. All information will be shared on Twitter too using the hash tag - #SENJigsawConf . If you are a Twitter user please do check in with our feed and comment etc.
Today's spotlight is on Dr Michelle Foster, Sheffield Children's Trust.
An MSc Graduate in Audiological Science and CAC accredited, Michelle moved to Sheffield Children’s NHS trust in 2005. Initially employed as an Audiological Scientist she later registered as a clinical scientist, leading to over 12 years’ experience in Paediatric Audiology.
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| Dr Michelle Foster, Sheffield Children's Trust |
An MSc Graduate in Audiological Science and CAC accredited, Michelle moved to Sheffield Children’s NHS trust in 2005. Initially employed as an Audiological Scientist she later registered as a clinical scientist, leading to over 12 years’ experience in Paediatric Audiology.
'Sheffield’s Approach to screening and Management of Auditory Processing Difficulties (APD)'
In 2006 APD became a topic at a lot of conferences and I had begun to notice patients coming back querying their hearing ability when they had normal hearing thresholds on a Pure tone audiometry (hearing test). So we ran a pilot study and a research project and have made links with the institute of Hearing research in Nottingham. The aim of the talk is to outline to the listeners our journey, what APD is, presenting symptoms, current research and then our conclusions and approach in Sheffield.