Sign up now
and watch at your leisure between May 16, 2025 and May 16, 2030.
Or sign up
for the live version of this program: airing May 14, 2025, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Eastern time, available through the ASHA
Learning
Pass subscription or as an a la carte purchase.
Description:
This
webinar will review case history, test battery, and vestibular disease
characteristics to aid audiologists in evaluating patients who report dizziness
or imbalance. The presenter will discuss how to effectively use diagnostic
tests available in the clinic to differentiate between unilateral peripheral
conditions.
Learning
Outcomes
You will
be able to:
- Design a vestibular function
test battery based on the patient's symptoms
- Discuss the characteristic
differences between unilateral peripheral diseases
- Determine supporting tests to
better differentiate between results for various peripheral vestibular diseases
Related Courses
This is one of three courses in the ASHA Audiology 2025: Vestibular Assessment and Management webinar series. See all the courses in this series.
Presenter
Information
Kaitlin Ryan, AuD, CCC-A (she/her/hers) graduated with her Doctorate of
Audiology from Northeastern
University in 2019
and had a quick launch into vestibular audiology through the Department of
Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California, serving veterans across
hundreds of miles.
This developed into sitting on fall prevention committees,
working as an
audiology liaison for a geriatric interdisciplinary clinic and on
teams of providers
working to rehabilitate active-duty special forces service
people after they
sustained brain trauma. Currently, Kaitlin is working in a large
hospital on a team
of four vestibular audiologists in conjunction with ENT physicians
to serve a
significant portion of Massachusetts, helping to better characterize and
understand
dizziness. Prior to this, she had the opportunity to study how
hearing and balance
change during spaceflight as an intern at NASA, solidifying
her passion for
bettering the lives of others through audiology.
Disclosures:
- Financial compensation from ASHA
for this presentation
Assessment
Type
Self-assessment—Think
about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your
new
knowledge.
To earn
continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning
assessment by the end date below.
Program
History and CE
Information
Content origination date: May 14, 2025
End date: May 16, 2030
This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
