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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Audiol. Otol.
Sec. Tinnitus
Volume 2 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fauot.2024.1419219
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Audiology Practice and Knowledge at the World Congress of Audiology 2024: A Comprehensive Collection View all 5 articles

Best practice in Audiology: Context matters

Provisionally accepted
Vera-Genevey Hlayisi Vera-Genevey Hlayisi 1*Vidya Ramkumar Vidya Ramkumar 2Lucretia Petersen Lucretia Petersen 1Barnabas Vangerwua Barnabas Vangerwua 3
  • 1 University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  • 2 Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  • 3 Other, Lagos, Nigeria

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    Historically, modern audiology evolved from the United States of America (USA) after the Second World War, where hearing rehabilitation programs were established across the country. Since then, audiology practice and the profession as a whole has expanded from the west to the far east and global south with considerable contextual variations. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to increase conversation and engagement on definitions and the drawbacks of a single lens approach to the use of best practice guidelines in Audiology. It is important to develop a more expansive lens as influenced by different contexts such as Africa, Asia and South America that will in turn help facilitate a multidimensional approach to audiology practice and what is considered 'best practice'.

    Keywords: Best-practice1, contextualization2, evidence3, guidelines4, global-audiology4, multidimensional approach6

    Received: 17 Apr 2024; Accepted: 14 Jun 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hlayisi, Ramkumar, Petersen and Vangerwua. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Vera-Genevey Hlayisi, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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