Rate My Professor Stephanie Fleckenstein

Fleckenstein maintains active licensures in Iowa for audiology and hearing aid dealing since 1998 and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology from ASHA since 1997. A Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology since 2015, she has been honored with the 2023 Honors of the National Chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association for her mentorship contributions, University of Iowa First Year Champion awards in 2022 and 2019, and the 2013 Excellence and Innovation Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She has obtained several instructional equipment grants for audiology tools between 2019 and 2022. Her scholarly work includes co-authoring "Barriers to Equity in Pediatric Hearing Health Care: A Review of the Evidence" in ASHA Sig 9 Perspectives (2022) and multiple contributions to the Iowa Speech-Language-Hearing Association's ISHA Connection newsletter. As Vice President for Audiology of the Iowa Speech-Language-Hearing Association since 2019, chair of various departmental committees including AuD Admissions since 2004 and Audiology Clinic Planning since 2021, and coordinator of the UI SAFE healthy hearing program established in 2010, Fleckenstein has significantly influenced audiology education, clinical training, hearing conservation, and student mentorship at the University of Iowa and beyond. She regularly guest lectures on topics such as hearing loss prevention, culturally responsive practices in audiology, and professional issues, and supervises AuD capstone projects.