Tele-audiology seminar in Sweden - first of its kind

Demonstrations of tele-audiology equipment

Prof De Wet Swanepoel from the Dept of Communication Pathology at the University of Pretoria presented on tele-audiology in collaboration with the organizers of the meeting, Prof Claude Laurent from Umeå University in Sweden and Ms Lisbeth Olsson from Falun Hospital. The seminar was a follow-up to the recent collaborative project establishing two tele-audiology clinics in Kenya. The device used to conduct the remote testing was the KUDUwave audiometer by GeoAxon and a video-otoscope.

Tele-audiology clinics may offer a way to provide hearing healthcare in Africa and other developing world regions where hearing healthcare professionals are often almost entirely unavailable.

Local Swedish press reported on this special event.