Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important

Dr. Nicole Corbin with Michelle Andros

Unilateral hearing loss or single sided deafness has implications on learning and accessing information across listening environments. Listen to Dr. Nicole Corbin as she talks about unilateral hearing loss from an audiologists perspective, and explains how unilateral losses can impact access and the needs for specific accommodations and modifications in the general education classroom, as well as non academic listening environments that will help provide access for students with unilateral loss.
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Course curriculum

Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important

    1. Course Handouts

    2. Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important - Module 1

    3. Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important - Module 2

    4. Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important - Module 3

    5. Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important - Module 4

    6. Quiz- Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important

    7. Course Evaluation - Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important

    8. ASHA-Directions on How to Use the ASHA Form

    9. ASHA Verification Form - Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important

    10. LSLS CEU Letter - Unilateral Hearing Loss IS Important

    11. ISBE Professional Development Hours

    12. ISBE EVALUATION

    13. Completion of Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Hour(s) Certificate

    14. RID Professional Development Hours

3 Learner Outcomes

  • 1. Participants will be introduced to specific areas of need for students with unilateral hearing loss.
  • 2. Participants will be able to develop strategies for helping students with unilateral hearing loss, gain access in environments that have extraneous noise.
  • 3. Participants will be able to identify how unilateral loss affects auditory skill development, and ways to identify skill deficits so they can target instruction in those areas of need.

Meet your Instructor

Nicole Corbin

○ Nicole Corbin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Science and Disorders and Audiology Faculty in the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Related Disorders (LEND) Center at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). She received her Doctorate in Audiology from Arizona State University in 2013 after completing a clinical externship and LEND fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her clinical interests lie in the family-centered, interdisciplinary assessment and management of hearing loss in children. Dr. Corbin completed her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. Her research interests lie in the development of binaural hearing abilities and the effect of unilateral hearing loss on children’s overall development. In her current role, Dr. Corbin teaches in the classroom and clinic, serves as the academic advisor for students in years one and two of the Doctorate of Audiology (AuD) program, directs a supplemental audiology training grant at the LEND Center, conducts research in partnership with the DePaul School for Hearing and Speech under the Brain and Communication Science Research Initiative, and assists with clinical coordination for the AuD program. She serves on various committees within professional organizations, including the American Academy of Audiology and American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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