Laura Kauth, CCC-A, MA
Laura Kauth earned her bachelor's degrees in English, psychology, and biology at the University of Iowa in 1994. Realizing it might be nice to make a living, she went on to complete her M.A. in audiology in 2000. Although initially inclined toward research, an outplacement with Dr. Myrna Stephens and a student membership in NHCA redirected her into hearing conservation. After ten years of dividing her time between clinical and occupational audiology, Laura decided to leave her clinical practice to better pursue her professional interests in hearing conservation. Laura is currently licensed to practice audiology in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and maintains the Certificate of Clinical Competence through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She is a certified course director for the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC ). She has been an active member in NHCA since 2000, and currently serves on the Executive Council as the Director of Communication and semi-official Conference Volunteer Wrangler*. In her free time, Laura has an appalling tendency to engage in "guerilla audiology", randomly testing noisy environments shopping malls, and accosting hapless strangers with earplugs and education.