Auditory Health and OTC Hearing Aids
An Aging Well Program
Your hearing and auditory health have increasingly been shown to have links to your overall health. How can you protect and maximize them both? And, as the availability of hearing aids has expanded to include over-the-counter options, how do you determine what’s most effective for you? In this online session, Speech & Hearing professor Yi Shen will provide information and guidance on how to maintain this key area.
Accessibility Notes: Captions for live Zoom sessions are available in a variety of languages. Recorded sessions are captioned in English.
Speakers
Yi Shen, PhD
Associate Professor, UW Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences.
Email: shenyi@uw.edu
Yi Shen, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences and part of UW’s Applied Hearing Science Lab. His research includes understanding the mechanisms responsible for individual differences in the difficulties experienced by listeners with hearing loss and determining why people with hearing loss experience variable benefit from assistive listening devices.