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Karen C. Johnson, Ph.D.
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| Karen C. Johnson, Ph.D., is a licensed audiologist with 20 years of experience in the assessment and habilitation of infants with hearing loss. She began her career in Houston as a clinical audiologist at Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. Her interest in pediatrics emerged while serving as Director of Audiology at Texas Children’s Hospital, where she developed and implemented the newborn hearing screening program in neonatal intensive and special care nurseries of Texas Children’s Hospital. After completing her Ph.D. in Audiology and Bioacoustics at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Johnson went on to direct pediatric audiology programs at Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago and Kosair Children’s Hospital at the University of Louisville. Dr. Johnson joined the House Ear Institute in July 2000, as Director of Operations of the Southern California Hearing Coordination Center, under contract with the State of California to assist hospitals throughout Southern California in the implementation of their Newborn Hearing Screening Programs. In 2002, Dr. Johnson transferred to the research staff of the Children’s Auditory Research and Evaluation (CARE) Center, where she now serves as research associate and coordinator of the Childhood Development after Cochlear Implantation (CDaCI) Project. The goal of this multi-center study is to track the development of speech, language, cognitive and social-emotional development following cochlear implantation in children under the age of 5 years. Dr. Johnson has served on the American Academy of Audiology Task Force on Early Identification of Hearing Loss in Infants and Children, the Illinois Working Group on Infant Hearing and the Advisory Board to the California Newborn Hearing Screening Program. She has lectured extensively on hearing loss detection and intervention in infants and children and has authored or co-authored articles on numerous aspects of diagnostic audiologic assessment and intervention in children and adults. # # # |
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