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Hearing Health and Treatment Options
Denise D. Kidd-Conover, Anahita Moshfegh, Maureen Laufer
September 8, 2026
10:00-11:00 am
Registration: Hearing Health and Treatment Options
Fee: $10
This is a virtual class. The Zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the class.
This is part of our National Rehabilitation Awareness Month Educational Series in September. It is intended for community members and is not approved for CPDs.
Course Description: Significance of hearing health and its effects on memory and cognition will be discussed. Fundamentals of hearing loss, including common causes and the different degrees of severity will be reviewed, along with how to interpret an audiogram. We will examine amplification options that includes hearing aids and cochlear implants. Realistic expectations, benefits, and limitations of amplification will be presented.
Instructor Bios
Denise Kidd-Conover, AuD
Denise Kidd-Conover, AuD has been practicing audiology since 2008, and obtained her graduate degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. She has special interests in pediatric and adult diagnostics as well as pediatric and adult rehabilitation, including hearing aids and cochlear implants. Denise is a former board member and task force member on the Student Academy of Audiology.
Maureen Laufer, AuD
Maureen Laufer, AuD has an extensive background in the field of audiology. She received her Doctorate of Audiology from Vanderbilt University and completed her Externship at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center. She worked as a pediatric audiologist at the University of Chicago prior to working for UCLA. Dr. Virts provides both inpatient and outpatient care to both pediatric and adult patients.
Anahita Moshfegh, AuD
Anahita Moshfegh, AuD received her undergraduate and graduate degree in Audiology from Indiana University, Bloomington in Audiology, 1997. She earned her Doctorate of Audiology degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, 2002. Her experiences include working at WLA VA. Additionally, she was a research assistant at UCLA on studies investigating the effects of lexical difficulty and stimulus variability of speech perception. Her specialties include diagnostic audiology and hearing aids treatment/rehabilitation for adults. She is fluent in Farsi.