Research and Presentations

• “Survey of Parents of Children with Cochlear Implant: Parental Perceptions of Resources and Support” (PDF). Principal Investigator: Dr. Janet Jamieson, Associate Professor, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia.
• “Comparison of a new versus standard hearing screening test for high-risk newborns" (PDF). Principal Investigator: Dr. David R. Stapells, Professor, School of Audiology & Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia.
• “Investigating the Mechano-acoustical Properties of Normal and Diseased Middle-ear in High-risk Newborns" (PDF). Principal Investigator: Dr. Navid Shahnaz, Assistant Professor, School of Audiology & Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia.
• "Comparison of multiple auditory steady-state responses (80 vs. 40 Hz) and slow cortical potentials for threshold estimation in hearing-impaired adults." Int J Audiol, 44, 613-624.Dr. A. Van Maanen, Clinical Audiologist, BC Children's Hospital.

Research Underway

• Congenital Diaphramatic Hearing Loss  Dr. Anne Synnes, Neonatologist; Laurie Usher, Clinical Audiologist, BC Children's Hospital.
• Tone Evoked ABR  Laurie Usher, Clinical Audiologist, BC Children's Hospital, Dr. David R. Stapells, Professor, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia.
• Oncology and Hearing Loss  Beth Brooks, Clinical Audiologist, BC Children's Hospital.

Recent Presentations

"Unilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss: What every Otolaryngologist needs to know".

Canadian Society of Otolaryngology - Annual Meeting

Kelowna, BC

May 2006

Dr. Frederick Kozak and Laurie Usher

"Providing cochlear implantation for medically and cognitively challenged candidates"

International Pediatric Congress of Audiology,

Ottawa, ON

May 21, 2006

Todd Mitchell

“Investigative Audiology”

Saskatchewan Health Care Conference

May 2006

Anna Van Maanen

“Multiple Auditory Steady-State Responses to Air-Conduction Stimuli in Infants with Normal Hearing”

Research poster, International Newborn Hearing Screening Conference

May 2006

Anna Van Maanen

“Diagnostic Auditory Brainstem Response”

Training workshop, British Columbia Early Hearing Program (BC-EHP), Italy

April 2006

Anna Van Maanen

"Cochlear Implant Workshop for Families”

Workshop for families of children with cochlear implants presented in conjunction with the B.C. Family Hearing Resource Centre

April 3, 2006
Donna Myer

Audiology and Otolaryngology Rounds, BCCH

March 10, 2005

Robert Hunter and Beth Brooks

“Mapping and Neural Response Telemetry”

Cochlear Implant Services Workshop for Cochlear Implantee Caregivers

BCCH

February 2005

Robert Hunter