Melanie Rosen Baur

Melanie Rosen Baur, B.S., M.A., Au.D., FAAA, CCC-A, Reg CASLPO Doctor of Audiology

Melanie Baur earned her Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University in 1995, her Master’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1997, and her Clinical Doctorate in Audiology from A.T. Still University in 2008. The Au.D. is the highest clinical degree currently available. She is a licensed audiologist through the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and is a member of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) and the Educational Audiology Association (EAA) and, most recently, the College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO).

After growing up in Miami, college in Syracuse and graduate school in Iowa City, Melanie began her career as an audiologist in 1997 at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, where she completed her Certificate of Clinical Competence (as required for certification in the U.S.). Upon moving to North Carolina, she worked as a pediatric audiologist at the prestigious Duke University Medical Center. While there, she sat on the Cleft Palate team, conducted newborn screening tests, coordinated with ototoxic monitoring, and performed intraoperative monitoring for acoustic neuroma surgeries, as well as full diagnostic testing on infants and children of all ages.

From there, Melanie moved on to be an educational audiologist, consulting with public schools and Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf. She is proficient, though not fluent, in sign language using both ASL and Signed English. She collaborated with ENT’s, audiologists, speech pathologists and other members of the special education teams in order to meet the auditory needs of her students.

When Melanie returned to New York City in 2002, she returned to clinical audiology at Hackensack University Medical Center, where she performed full diagnostic evaluations on children and adults, including ABRs (Auditory Brainstem Response), OAEs (Otoacoustic Emissions), ECochGs (Electrocochleography) and Auditory Processing evaluations. She also headed up the educational audiology consult services. Melanie went on to consult with an FM company in order to serve the auditory needs of children in the greater New York City area, and eventually found herself as the Educational Coordinator of one of the largest cochlear implant centers in the area, Beth Israel/NY Eye and Ear Cochlear Implant Center.

Melanie started her own private practice in late 2005 consulting with underserved school districts just outside of the New York City area. With the help of her husband, Trent, she was able to grow her practice into a full time business very quickly, helping to provide direct audiologic services to meet the needs of hearing impaired children in both public and Special Education programs. In her “free time”, she went on to earn her Clinical Doctorate through A.T. Still University, one of the first (and still one of the top) Au.D. programs to be accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education at the doctoral level, thanks, in part, to a scholarship provided for educational audiologists through Phonak hearing systems.

But the rat race finally wore her down, and Melanie and Trent have recently started their newest adventure by moving North of the border, and Melanie happily joined the Advanced Hearing Aid Clinic team in September 2008. She is excited that her patients (usually) don’t have temper tantrums anymore when she takes earmold impressions or completes any number of diagnostic tests (including, but not limited to, full diagnostic audiometry, impedence, OAEs, ABRs, ASSRs, Auditory Processing testing, hearing aid fitting and verification). She fully appreciates Rodney Taylor’s love of the highest end technology and is thrilled to have the ‘best-of-the-best’ at her disposal with the clinic(s) he has built over the past several years. And although she knows her accent and occasional sarcasm make her sound like a Yankee, she is embracing the cold Ottawa weather by enjoying the warm environment that Advanced provides.