By James W. Hall III
This article is a part of the May/June 2017, Volume 29, Number 3, Audiology Today issue.
A two-part series of ACAE Corner articles in 2015 was devoted to the topic of global audiology education. The first article provided an international overview of audiology educational models and programs in different countries and geographical regions (Hall, 2015a).
As noted at the outset of the article, over 90 percent of the world’s population has little or no access to hearing health care. The Middle East was identified as one region with woefully inadequate audiology services. The follow-up article in Audiology Today addressed “emerging strategies and efforts to expand and enhance the quality of audiology education around the world” (Hall, 2015b). Two examples of emerging strategies and efforts were cited. One was an audiology program in development then at American University of Beirut. The other was an online master’s degree program in audiology at Salus University. I am happy to report that both of these examples of emerging strategies were implemented within the past two years.
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