Christine DePlacido

cdeplacido@qmu.ac.uk

Chris DePlacido trained as an Audiologist at the Glasgow school of Audiology qualifying in 1977. She worked as an Audiologist in Lanarkshire for one year before moving to the Royal infirmary of Edinburgh where she became a senior Audiologist. During this time she set up the paediatric service at RHSC in Edinburgh. She moved to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy in 1985 to become head of Audiology and in 1986 became head of service for the newly combined Audiology services in Fife. She worked as head of service and principal audiological scientist in Fife until 2005 when she took up a lectureship at QMU

She received a B Sc Honours in Health Studies from QMU in 1991 and an M Sc in Audiology from UCL in 1996. In 2000 she obtained a Therapeutic diploma in humanistic counselling and became a registered Hearing Aid dispenser. She has since completed postgraduate training in hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, bereavement and drug and alcohol abuse counselling and a range of complementary therapies. She is currently completing her Ph D thesis

She has served as Education and training secretary, honorary secretary and vice chair of BAAT

Professional Memberships & Registration

British Academy of Audiology – Full member

British Society of Audiology – Full member

American Auditory Society – International member

American Academy of Audiology – International member

British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists – Full member

Registered with HAC and HPC

Publications

DePlacido CG (2007) Aural rehabilitation, person centred or cost effective? Proc Europ Fed Aud Soc.

Wolters M, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Liddell A, Owens D (2007) Making speech synthesis more accessible to older people. 6 th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis (SSW-6), Bonn, Germany, August 22-24, 2007  

Wolters M, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Liddell A, Owens D (2007) Does age-related extended high frequency hearing loss affect the intelligibility of synthetic speech? Proc. Int. Congr. Phon. Sci..

Liddell A, Owens D, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Wolters M, (2007) Random gap detection testing: A useful measure of auditory processing in an aging population?  Proc Europ Fed Aud Soc..

Owens D, Liddell A, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Wolters M, (2007) The influence of extended high frequency hearing thresholds on otoacoustic emissions in an aging population.   Proc Europ Fed Aud Soc.

Wolters M, Campbell PE, DePlacido C, Liddell A, Owens D (2007) The role of outer hair cell function in the perception of synthetic versus natural speech. Proc. Interspeech.

Conferences

DePlacido CG (2007) Comparison of screening methods used for identifying hearing loss in school age children in Scotland British Academy of Audiology Conference, Telford, November 22-24

DePlacido, C.G(2009) Counselling in Audiology workshops Stellenbosch University South Africa . 31 st of October 2009

DePlacido, C.G(2009) My Audiologist doesn’t understand me! SASHLI Conference Cape Town. 1-4 th of November 2009

DePlacido, C.G(2009) Invited to deliver the McCrae Lecture.” Thirty years of Audiology; is history repeating itself?” Belfast ENT/Audiology Conference.15 th of September 2009(confirmed)

DePlacido, C.G(2009) The patient journey and reflective practice Hear buy Conference. Birmingham England.. Invited Speaker 11 th of September 2009

DePlacido, C.G(2009) Counselling in rehabilitation. Swedish Audiology Conference

Orebro, Sweden. Invited Speaker. 8-10 th of September 2009

DePlacido CG (2009) Acquiring hearing loss; Perspectives from Dallas and Scotland.(Poster) American Academy of Audiology Conference. Dallas Texas

DePlacido CG (2008/9) Reflective practice/ Ida Institute Seminars. Denmark

DePlacido CG (2008) Counselling in Audiology. Forth Valley Sensory Impairment Centre Update day.

 DePlacido CG (2008) Counselling for Audiologists . Aural rehabilitation Conference. Bristol University

DePlacido CG (2007) Experiencing deafness: An interpretive phenomenological analysis British Academy of Audiology Conference. Telford. 2007

DePlacido CG (2007) The needs of the elderly client British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists meeting. Warrington 2007

Other

Chair of Programmes Committee BSA

Member of the international faculty of the Ida institute

Member of the BAA higher training scheme committee

Ex Offcio member of the BSA council

Lead editor of BSA news