UGA Pediatric Audiology Symposium
Saturday, September 13, 2025
2025 FEATURED SPEAKERS
Caitlin Sapp, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A
UNC Hospitals
Topics:
Parent Counseling in Pediatric Audiology: Creating Urgency for Intervention
Identifying and Managing Financial Barriers to Early Hearing Aid Fittings in Infants and Children
Caitlin Sapp is the head of Pediatric Audiology at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC and the director of the Early Hearing Loss Lab. She completed her Au.D. training and her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. She has extensive experience in infant hearing assessment and case management and has collaborated with state EHDI departments on quality improvement efforts related to audiology services. Her research interests include examining the factors that improve language and social outcomes for children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, in particular malleable clinician factors like parent counseling.
Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Topics:
What is the Current Clinical Situation for Children with Developmental Disabilities?
How to Use Developmentally Informed Strategies During a Hearing Evaluation
Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed her clinical training in audiology at Vanderbilt University, and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was previously on faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Bonino’s research expertise is in characterizing human auditory development with behavioral methods, and in evaluating clinical care with big data techniques. Current research is focused on advancing hearing health care for children with developmental disabilities by identifying gaps in clinical care and improving behavioral hearing assessment procedures. Research shared in this presentation was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.
WHEN?
Saturday, September 13, 2025
WHERE?
University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education
Athens, GA
WHO?
This symposium is designed for audiologists/professionals and audiology students who are interested in updates in pediatric audiology.
The UGA® Speech and Hearing Clinic is excited and proud to host this event!
The UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic is approved the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.6 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy’s Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.