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Associate Professorship: Assoc. Prof. Ayşenur Küçük Ceyhan

Ayşenur Küçük Ceyhan, faculty member at the Department of Audiology, Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences, has been awarded the title of Associate Professor in the July 2026 review period.

20 Aug 2026
Assoc. Prof. Ayşenur Küçük Ceyhan

Ayşenur Küçük Ceyhan, faculty member at the Department of Audiology, Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences (İstanbul), has successfully completed the associate professorship review process in the July 2026 period and earned the title of Associate Professor. Her work spans pediatric audiology and auditory rehabilitation through to tinnitus and central auditory processing, and she brings together many years of both clinical and academic experience.

12international peer-reviewed articles
10master’s theses supervised
3book chapters
3research projects

Academic Path

  1. 1998

    BSc — Hacettepe University

    Graduated from the Child Development and Education programme.

  2. 2005

    MSc — Hacettepe University

    Completed her thesis on phonological development in children with cochlear implants, supervised by Prof. Gonca Sennaroğlu.

  3. 2006–2020

    Clinical audiologist

    Worked at Yeditepe University Hospital, Sesvak Audiology Center and Okan University Hospital.

  4. 2017

    Move into academia

    Began as a lecturer in the Department of Audiology at Bezm-i Âlem Vakıf University.

  5. 2020

    PhD — Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

    Defended a thesis, supervised by Prof. Hacı Hüseyin Dere, comparing speech intelligibility in noise and MMN responses before and after auditory training in elderly hearing aid users.

  6. 2020–2022

    Assistant Professor — İstanbul Aydın University

    Served in the Department of Audiology; since 2022 she has continued her work at the University of Health Sciences, Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences.

  7. 2026

    Associate Professorship

    Awarded the title of Associate Professor in the July 2026 review period.

Research Areas

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Pediatric audiology and cochlear implants

Phonological development, language and speech outcomes, remote assessment of music perception.

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Auditory rehabilitation and tele-audiology

Auditory training programmes for elderly hearing aid users; web-based auditory perception applications.

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Tinnitus and hyperacusis

Decreased sound tolerance, scale development for hyperacusis in children, effects of tinnitus on cognitive control.

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Central auditory processing

Assessment approaches and therapy programmes for improving auditory skills.

Selected Publications

A selection from her work published in international peer-reviewed journals:

2022

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a New Auditory Training Program on the Speech Recognition Skills and Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Elderly Hearing Aid Users

Audiology and Neurotology

Drawn from her doctoral thesis, this study showed the effect of auditory training on speech-in-noise recognition and cortical responses in elderly hearing aid users.

2026

The Multidimensional Effects of Tinnitus on Executive Control in Individuals With Normal Hearing: An Investigation Through Stroop and Antisaccade Performance

American Journal of Audiology

Executive function in normal-hearing individuals with tinnitus, examined through Stroop and antisaccade performance.

2025

Hearing loss configurations in low- and middle-income countries

International Journal of Audiology

A large multi-centre international collaboration mapping hearing loss patterns in low- and middle-income countries.

2024

Remote assessment of music perception in pediatric cochlear implant recipients

International Journal of Audiology

A tele-audiology study on whether music perception can be assessed remotely in children with cochlear implants.

2025

Phonological development of children with cochlear implants

Speech, Language and Hearing
2025

An Evaluation of Test-Retest Reliability of the Saccadometry Test

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

She is also the author of a chapter on the relationship between communication, language, speech and hearing in Odyolojiye Giriş (Nobel, 2023) and of two chapters in Adım Adım Tıbbi Makale Nasıl Yazılır? (Us Akademi, 2020).

Projects and Thesis Supervision

Within the TÜBİTAK 2209 programme she has served as advisor on projects developing a web-based auditory perception programme for adults with cochlear implants and on vestibular assessment in young adults with regular or irregular menstrual cycles. Between 2020 and 2021 she took part as a researcher in the international project Scalable Hearing Rehabilitation for Low and Middle Income Countries.

Since 2021 she has supervised ten master’s theses, covering topics from phonological development in children with cochlear implants and central auditory processing in patients with chronic kidney disease, to saccadometry findings in tinnitus and hyperacusis assessment in children with autism spectrum disorder.

Courses Taught

We warmly congratulate our esteemed colleague Assoc. Prof. Ayşenur Küçük Ceyhan and wish her continued success in her contributions to audiology and to science.

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