Emma Rushbrooke is a qualified Nurse and the majority of her post graduate work was in paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Emma also has a Bachelor of Arts, a Post Graduate Diploma in Audiology and is a Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist.

Emma worked as an Audiologist from 1995- 2001 at the Queensland Neuro-Otology Clinic in Brisbane in both diagnostics and rehabilitation. She had both paediatric and adult case loads and coordinated the adult cochlear implant program at this Clinic for a number of years.

Emma now works in the area of paediatric cochlear implants and Auditory-Verbal Therapy at the Hear and Say Centre in the role of Clinical Director and is currently enrolled at the Univeristy of Queensland as a Masters student in the School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences.
 

Emma enrolled in an MPhil in 2008, title: Remote MAPping for children with cochlear implants.

The aims of this research are to:

• investigate the use of the internet and remote programming software to perform Cochlear implant MAPping/programming;
• develop procedures for remote MAPping, and establish the validity of MAPs created using this approach with maps created in a conventional manner, in children of different age groups with cochlear implants; and
• investigate client/family satisfaction.