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.

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.
Graduated from the Child Development and Education programme.
Completed her thesis on phonological development in children with cochlear implants, supervised by Prof. Gonca Sennaroğlu.
Worked at Yeditepe University Hospital, Sesvak Audiology Center and Okan University Hospital.
Began as a lecturer in the Department of Audiology at Bezm-i Âlem Vakıf 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.
Served in the Department of Audiology; since 2022 she has continued her work at the University of Health Sciences, Hamidiye Faculty of Health Sciences.
Awarded the title of Associate Professor in the July 2026 review period.
Phonological development, language and speech outcomes, remote assessment of music perception.
Auditory training programmes for elderly hearing aid users; web-based auditory perception applications.
Decreased sound tolerance, scale development for hyperacusis in children, effects of tinnitus on cognitive control.
Assessment approaches and therapy programmes for improving auditory skills.
A selection from her work published in international peer-reviewed journals:
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).
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.
We warmly congratulate our esteemed colleague Assoc. Prof. Ayşenur Küçük Ceyhan and wish her continued success in her contributions to audiology and to science.