Charge

• Identify gaps in existing practice guidelines and provide recommendations to the board.
• Oversee task forces appointed to develop specific documents.
• Develop, finalize, and review documents including position statements and practice guidelines.
• Review and update the Academy’s standards of practice and scope of practice.

Members

• Lauralyn Chetwynd, AuD, Chair
• Sharon Sandridge, PhD, Subcommittee Chair, Prevention
• Sarah Grantham, AuD, Subcommittee Chair, Screening
• OPEN: Subcommittee Chair, Assessment/Diagnosis
• OPEN: Subcommittee Chair, Foundations of Professional Practice
• Rebekah Cunningham, PhD, Subcommittee Chair, Treatment
• Virginia Ramachandran, AuD, PhD, Subcommittee Chair, Professional Education
• Todd Ricketts, PhD, Board Liaison

Task Forces

Adult Assessment and Diagnostics

• Jeffrey Martin, PhD

Audiogram Symbols, Calibration of Test Equipment and Environment, and Infection Control/Sterilization

• Dennis Van Vliet, AuD

Audiological Counseling

• Eileen Rall, AuD

Auditory Dys-Synchrony

• Chuck Berlin, PhD

Classroom Acoustics

• Daniel Ostergren, AuD

Diagnosis and Treatment of Otitis Media in Children

• Erica Friedland, AuD

Hearing Assistive Technology

• Cheryl DeConde Johnson, EdD

Identification of Hearing Loss and Middle Ear Dysfunction

• Joe Pillion, PhD

Intra-Operative Monitoring

• Paul Kileny, PhD

Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Adults (Work-Related)

• Mark Stephenson, PhD

Osseointegrated Implants for Adult Patients with Conductive, Mixed and Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss

• Michael Valente, PhD

Otoacoustic Emissions

• Jay Hall, PhD