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Research Groups & Centres
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East & Africa | Canada & USA
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- Auditory Perception
Group, University of Cambridge
This is the website of Professor Brian Moore's Auditory Perception
Group, based in the Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of
Cambridge.
(UK)
- The Ashmore
Lab, University College London
This is Professor Jonathan Ashmore's homepage. It gives details of the work being
carried out by his research group at UCL. It is also the home of the famous "Rock
Around The Clock Hair Cell Video."
- Department of Clinical Engineering, Royal Liverpool University
Hospital
This department caries out clinical engineering, research and
teaching in various areas including: ERA, OAE, visual
electrophysiology,
and safety of electro-medical equipment.
- Imperial College London, Academic Department
of Neuro-Otology
The department provides facilities for clinical and basic
science research into human posture, balance and spatial
orientation
and their disorders in diseases affecting the senses and
nervous system.
- Institute of Hearing Research Glasgow
The Scottish Section of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research.
Interests include underlying determinants and appropriate clinical
assessments of hearing disability and handicap and their alleviation
by amplification and otological surgery. It also pursues clinical
research underpinning otological practice such as the aetiology,
diagnosis, and management of sensorineural and conductive pathology.
- Institute
of Hearing Research Nottingham
The MRC Institute of Hearing Research is a unit within the
Medical Research Council. It is involved in conducting world-leading
research into hearing and hearing disorders.
- UCL Ear Institute, University College London
This website details the research and education activities of the UCL Ear Insitute (previously known as the Institute of
Laryngology and Otology), which is a department within University College London.
- Institute of Sound
and Vibration Research (ISVR)
The Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, at Southampton University, is
involved in all aspects of teaching and research in Audiology. The ISVR Hearing
and Balance Centre also includes the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre.
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Europe
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- De
Oor Groep
The Ear Group (De Oor Groep) is a practice in Belgium that specialises
in audiology and the ear. In addition to clinical services, a range
of research is carried out. (Content in Dutch, with some English,
Belgium)
- Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing
The Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing is a scientific research and development unit in Poland. This institute includes the International Center of Hearing and Speech. (Content in Polish and English)
- UniversitätsSpital
Zürich, ORL-Klinik
In addition to the clinical services at the University Hospital Zurich,
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, a range
of audiology related research and courses are conducted. (Switzerland)
- UniversitätsSpital
Zürich, ORL-Klinik
In addition to the cliical services at the University Hospital Zurich,
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, a range
of audiology related research and courses are conducted. (Switzerland)
- University
of Ferrara, Audiology Department
Contains details of the range of activities carried out by the Audiology
department at Ferrara University. It also contains links to various
useful resources. This website is contains bilingual content, in Italian
and English. (Italy)
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Australasia
& Asia
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- The Bionic Ear Institute
A large independent, non-profit, medical research institute, working
in collaboration with the Department
of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne (Australia)
and other centres. Covering multiple areas of hearing research, including
cochlear implants (bionic ears). (Australia)
- All
India Institute of Speech and Hearing
The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing was established in 1966. The objectives
of the institute include: to provide training (in the form of university education
- graduate, post-graduate and doctoral courses, professional courses, meetings,
lectures and seminars), to encourage research, assist in providing clinical services,
and to educate the general public about communication disorders (India)
- The National Acoustic
Laboratories
The National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) undertakes scientific investigations
into hearing, hearing habilitation and rehabilitation, and the prevention
of hearing loss. (Australia)
- University
of Melbourne, Department of Otolaryngology
Based in Mebourne, Australia, the department carries out various clinical,
educational and research activities. Research is focused on the neurobiology
of deafness, improving speech perception for cochlear implant users,
and understanding language development in children who are hearing
impaired. (Australia)
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Middle
East & Africa
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- Jeddah
Institute for Speech and Hearing
The Jeddah Institute for Speech and Hearing (JISH) is a state-of-the
art facility, where a range of research and clinical services are offered,
devoted solely to speech-language and hearing services. (Saudi Arabia)
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Canada & USA
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- Baylor College of
Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative
Sciences
The department carries out various activities and research in all aspects
of otorhinolaryngology. (USA)
- Boys Town National
Research Hospital
A variety of resources relating to children with hearing, language
and learning disabilities, and the research currently underway at Boys
Town National Research Hospital. (USA)
- Callier Center
for Communication Disorders
This is the website for the University of Texas at Dallas' Callier
Center for Communicative Disorders. The site contains a range of information
about the services and research carried out at the Center. (USA)
- House Ear Institute
Otologic research and education programmes that deals in the exploration
of the auditory system, structure of the system's cellular and molecular
mechanisms, improvement of hearing aids and auditory implants and
develop innovative treatments and intervention methods. (USA)
- Johns Hopkins
Center for Hearing and Balance
Johns Hopkins Center for Hearing and Balance includes performing research
and education for both basic and clinical applications. Research is
centred on auditory (hearing) and vestibular (balance) function in
normal subjects and in patients with hearing or balance disorders. (USA)
- Massachusetts Eye
and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School
Research, clinical and educational services related to ophthalmology
and otolaryngology. The otolaryngology research includes anatomy, physiology,
and disease processes of the ear, vestibular (balance) system, and
head and neck. (USA)
- NIH - National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Information and research on communication disorders and deafness from
the NIH. (USA)
- Northwestern
University Centre for Sensory and Communication Disorders
The department's research, teaching, and clinical-educational services
consists of many disciplines that includes speech language pathology,
audiology, learning disabilities, communication and learning science,
psychology, neuroscience, neurophysiology, medicine, neurolinguistics,
psychoacoustics, deaf education, neurobiology, electrical engineering,
and more. (USA)
- UBC School of Audiology and Speech Sciences (University of British Columbia)
A range research laboratories can be found here, including David
R. Stapells' Human Auditory Physiology Laboratory and Navid Shahnaz's
Middle-Ear Lab. (Canada)
- Vestibular Function,
Regeneration, & Spatial Orientation
Laboratory
David Dickman's research group, at the Washington University
in St. Louis School of Medicine, carry out a range of research
associated with the vestibular system. (USA)
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