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title: "Current Crises, Future Opportunities: The Audiology Profession at the Crossroads"
description: "ADA offers programming and support to audiologists and students who are or who desire to be autonomous practitioners in the field of Audiology."
url: "https://www.audiologist.org/resources/educate/audacity-archive/item/current-crises-future-opportunities-the-audiology-profession-at-the-crossroads"
date: "2026-06-26T21:43:49+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Current Crises, Future Opportunities: The Audiology Profession at the Crossroads

**Presentation Date:** 18 October 2020

**Duration:** 1:08:06

**Return to:** [AuDacity Archive](https://www.audiologist.org/audacity-archive)

From his career spanning over 45 years, Dr. Harvey Abrams will lead attendees through this presentation exploring current and possible future approaches to the profession, including education and training, licensing, boarding and accreditation, inter-organizational relationships, emerging technologies as well as business practices and an expanded role for the audiologist—all to move forward to thrive in a dramatically different hearing healthcare landscape.

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**Speaker:** Harvey Abrams, Ph.D.

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