Affiliations & Training

Cat Robbins AssocFBSA

Associate Fellow of the British Society of Audiology

Registered PROM-T5® Practitioner

Accredited by the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists

The Sound Teacher is a member of:

  • British Society of Audiology (BSA)

  • British Association of Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (BATOD)

  • National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS)

The Sound Teacher has earned Certificates in:

The Neuroscience of Music and Emotion (2025) Berklee Online/Berklee College of Music https://www.coursera.org/partners/berklee

Affective Neuroscience for Healthcare Practitioners (2025) National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)

Music and Intelligence (2025) University of Padova

The Sound Teacher has completed the following audiological training:

British Society of Audiology (BSA) Online

  • Auditory perception and the effects of visual loss (2024)

  • Auditory Processing Disorder (APD): Neural basis of central auditory processing (2024)

  • Auditory Processing Disorder (APD): Another kind of noise (2025)

  • Auditory Processing Disorder (APD): Management (2025)

  • Balance: Mindfulness and art to help in the management of persistent dizziness Parts 1 - 4 (2025)

  • Balance: Vestibular assessment: function, perception, behaviour (2025)

  • Balance: Vestibular rehabilitation guidance (2024)

  • Cognition: Communication & Dementia (2024)

  • Cognition: Links between hearing loss and cognitive function: a psychosocial pathway? (2024)

  • Diagnostic Testing: Speech In Noise (2024)

  • Paediatrics: Parental decision making for Unilateral Hearing Loss UHL (2024)

  • Tinnitus: Case Studies: David D & David W (2025)

  • Tinnitus: How individuals with tinnitus perceive their sound generating devices (2025)

  • Tinnitus: Internet-based interventions for tinnitus (2025)

  • Tinnitus: Screening for mental health in people with tinnitus (2025)

The Sound Teacher has completed a Certificate in Otoscopy and Tympanometry.

This is a BSA accredited course (2024) by Tracy James Audiology. Typical delegates for this training include occupational health workers, assistant or associate audiologists, Teachers of the Deaf, GPs and nurses.

  • Perform otoscopy reliably and according to BSA recommended procedure

  • Undertake tympanometry and according to BSA recommended procedure

  • Carry out checks and understand the requirements for calibration of equipment

  • Interpret results and findings, recording results

  • Communicate results and findings to other professionals

    The Sound Teacher can perform this specialised assessment in your own home or in The Sound Teacher studio, London, UK.

Safeguarding:

Registered Place2Be ‘Mental Health Champion’ (2021) https://www.place2be.org.uk

Psychological First Aid (PFA) trained (2021) https://futurelearn.com/partners/public-health-england

Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance with https://www.hiscox.co.uk

Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check ‘for individuals involved in caring for, training, supervising or sole charge of children and vulnerable adults’ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/disclosure-and-barring-service