United States - Nationwide
Berkeley, California
Phoenix, Arizona
Glassboro, New Jersey
Posted: 30-Sep-24
Location: Seattle
Type: Full Time
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The Audiology Externship at the University of Washington provides audiology graduate clinicians extensive experiences in pediatric audiological care as well as pediatric hearing research. Externs participate in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program at the Center on Human Development and Disability.
The UW Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD) provides a wide range of services to infants, children, adolescents and young adults including comprehensive diagnostic evaluations using behavioral hearing assessments, otoacoustic emissions, middle ear measures, and brainstem auditory evoked brainstem response testing. Infants and children are fit with hearing aids and other hearing technologies and receive regular follow-up at IHDD; externs are involved in selection, fitting, verification, and outcome measures. Externs participate in a number of IHDD interdisciplinary outpatient teams for children with developmental disabilities and special health needs: Child Development Clinic, Infant Development Follow-up Clinic, Down Syndrome Specialty Clinic, and Cardiac Neurodevelopment Clinic. Externs are enrolled in the UW LEND traineeship; the LEND program promotes leadership, research skills, and clinical expertise in graduate level health care professionals who intend to devote their careers to working with children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities. Audiology LEND Externs collaborate with other trainees in speech-language pathology, psychology, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, genetics, nutrition and developmental pediatrics. Leadership skills are developed through clinical practicum, didactic seminars, participation in community organizations, advocacy projects, and a mentored leadership project.
The externship is 12 months in duration, starting a in early June 2025 and ending in early June 2026. A stipend is provided.