In keeping with the Wisconsin Idea, Audiologists Drs. Melanie Buhr-Lawler and Amy Hartman, along with graduate student Trista Fugate, gave a presentation for the Madison Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America on April 27, 2011 at the Madison Public Library.
Their presentation focused on the types of tests an audiologist uses and why they are needed.
They also provided an explanation of different degrees and types of hearing loss. Audience members were encouraged to bring their audiograms to the session.
After the formal presentation, they met with the participants either individually or in small groups to interpret the meaning of the audiograms and answer specific questions.
Buhr-Lawler joined the Communicative Disorders Department in 2010. She is the Audiology Clinic Coordinator for the UW-Madison Speech and Hearing Clinic. Her areas of interest are in medical audiology and she has worked at a community hospital, a children’s hospital, and at an eye and ear specialty hospital. Buhr-Lawler’s clinical experience includes cochlear implant evaluation and mapping, diagnostic audiologic evaluation, newborn hearing screening, auditory brainstem response testing, intraoperative monitoring, vestibular testing, and hearing aid services. She supervises Audiology doctoral students in the UW-Speech and Hearing Clinic and provides diagnostic hearing evaluation and hearing aid services to individuals of all ages.
Hartman joined the UW-Madison Communicative Disorders department as the Au.D. Program Coordinator in July of 2008. Prior to coming to UW Madison, she worked at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Her primary clinical interests are pediatrics, evoked potentials and (central) auditory processing disorders. At UW-Madison, she supervises graduate students in the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic, works with outside sites to set up student placements, and teaches courses in (Central) Auditory Processing and Counseling for Audiologists.
Fugate, a 1st-year Doctor of Audiology student, completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2007.