9-10 October 2015
Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C.
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Pre-Sessions
Registration cost for each pre-session workshop is $25 per person.
Title: |
Family Support & Empowerment for Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Considerations within Humanitarian Efforts |
Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 9 AM - Noon |
Presenters: |
Lisa Kovacs and Janet DesGeorges, Hands & Voices, www.handsandvoices.org Sheila Moodie PhD, Western University London, ON, Canada http://www.uwo.ca/fhs/csd/ |
Description: |
For children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH), the single most important
predictor of a newly identified child's success is the meaningful and effective
involvement of
his or her parents and family.
The term, "Family Support" is often used
to describe a holistic approach to providing families with resources and supports to
assist them with learning how to be meaningfully involved in the care and development
of their chi
ld who is D/HH. This session will provide both theoretical and practical
application of parent
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to
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parent support in a diversity of settings. The first part of the
session provides a conceptual framework of parent
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to
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parent support for parents with
children
who are D/HH. The second part will focus on principles of parent
-
to
-
parent
support and how parent to parent support works within the systems from various
countries including the US, Canada, China, Russia, South Africa, and Kenya.
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Length: |
3 hours |
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Title: |
Introduction to Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment |
Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 9 AM - noon |
Presenters: |
Andrew Smith and Daksha Patel, Hearing Group, International Center for Evidence in
Disability (ICED), London School of Hygiene & Tro
pical Medicine (LSHTM),
London, UK.
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Description: |
Over 360 million people in the world have disabling hearing loss and 80% live in low
and middle income (LMI) countries. Despite this massive problem, hearing loss is
generally forgotten and neglected in these countries, and there are few trained personnel
and a lack of infrastructure and program mess to address it. Clinical approaches need to
be supported with population
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scale interventions using public health methods.
The presenters currently run global 5-day courses which aim to develop an expanding
cadre of people in LMI countries with the skills to set up public
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health interventions and
programmes for prevention and rehabilitation of hearing loss. So far over 400 people
have been trained from 40 countries.
This introductory session will
covers some of the
elements in that longer course by focusing on
:
1.
The global magnitude and burden of hearing Impairment
2.
Principles of
Public health strategies
3.
Over view of ear and hearing health system
4.
Principles of planning to influence a change.
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Length: |
3 hours |
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Title: |
Operating a Field-based Earmold Lab |
Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 9 AM - Noon |
Presenters: |
David Pither |
Description: |
One critical component of successful and sustainable community based ear and hearing
care services, in a low
-
and middle
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income country, is prompt provision of earmolds for
dispensed hearing aids. Though,
earmold
laboratories can ensure success, the time to
train and resources required for production can be very time intensive and cost
prohibitive.
However, when costs are abated, the earmold lab can become a
serendipitous cottage industry opportunity in a region
that will benefit from a fiscal
boost.
This workshop will provide information about materials required as well as the
protocol for production.
The model created by the charity, Ears, Inc., has been used
effectively in many parts of the world, and enhance
d local economy with much needed
cottage industry skills.
The workshop will provide instruction
for production materials,
and suggest the infra-structure for establishing the earmo
ld lab, as well as recommend
training procedures for the local program partners.
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Length: |
3 hours |
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Title: |
Tour of River School and Georgetown University Audiology |
Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 9 AM - 4 PM |
Presenters: |
River School, Georgetown University Hospital |
Description: |
Early identification, audiology, and educational services all play an important role in
helping children with hearing loss develop communication skills and language. This
tour will begin at the River School. The River School was founded in 1999 as a model
for the inclusive education of young children with hearing loss who can access the
listening environment using cochlear implants or hearing aids.
At the River School,
children with hearing loss learn alongside a classroom majority of peers with normal
hearing in acoustically modified classrooms. Conference delegates will learn about the
River School programs and approach and have the opportunity to observe its early
intervention program in action.
We will then visit Georgetown University Hospital Department of Audiology Services
to explore its diagnostics and hearing aid fitting programs. This will be followed by a
lunch presentation about the hospital's EHDI (Early Hearing Detection and
Intervention) program for newborns in Washington DC and Maryland. The day will conclude with a group discussion about
the services provided by River School and
Georgetown University Hospital and how they collaborate to best serve young children
with hearing loss across education and hearing healthcare in the region.
*There will be no CEU credit offered for this pre-conference session. |
Length: |
7 hours |
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Title: |
Practical Guide to Humanitarian Missions for Improving Hearing Health |
Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 1 PM - 4 PM |
Presenters: |
Jim Smith and Debra Fried |
Description: |
This workshop will be presented by an audiologist and a otolaryngologist who
have more than 40 years of combined experience in organizing humanitarian
outreach trips and non-profit programs in Central America, Africa, and Asia. The
workshop will explore how humanitarian outreach has changed in recent years
and some ethical issues
inherit in doing this type of work. The practical issues
related to humanitarian trips in audiology and otolaryngology will be explored
including selecting a location for the work, recruiting team members, team and
local site preparation, equipment needs,
establishing follow up, and sustainability
issues. Specific issues and methods of educating both the team members and local
providers will be presented and discussed. Teaching methods employed in this pre-conference session will include lectures, presentations by a panel of experts (followed by a Q & A session) and conclude with suggestions for best practices for humanitarian trips focusing on hearing health care. |
Length: |
3 hours |
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Title: |
How Emerging Findings In Neuroscience Apply to Early Intervention
Practices:
Addressing Brain Development and Early Visual Language
in Infants, Toddlers and Young Children
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Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 1 PM - 4 PM |
Presenters: |
Dr. Melissa Herzig, Visual Language and Visual Learning, NSF Science of Learning
Center at Gallaudet University
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Description: |
The purpose of this session
to
is
share the research findings from Visual Language and
Visual Learning, a NSF-funded Science of Learning Center with
a goal to better
understand the biological, cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural and pedagogical
conditions that influence acquisition of language and knowledge through the visual
mode. Some of the topics discussed in this workshop will include:
advantages of early
visual language; language acquisition; visual sign phonology and the
importance of
fingerspelling for reading; and more. Information about available resources that VL2
produced for early intervention
and families
will be shared. This includes
Parent
Information Package,
Research Briefs,
various ASL Asses
sment Tools, and VL2
Storybook Apps.
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Length: |
3 hours |
Title: |
Tour of Kendall Demonstration Elementary School |
Time: |
Thursday, October 8th, 10 AM - 1 PM |
Presenters: |
Matthew Bakke,
Debbie Trapani
, and Beth Benedict
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Description: |
Join our hosts from Gallaudet with a tour of the Kendall Demonstration School that
today serves deaf and hard of hearing students from birth through 8th
grade. Tuition is
free and students come from the Metropolitan Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The
tour will continue at
the Gallaudet University Hearing and Speech Center Program
Services which provides a wide variety of services to all members of Gallaudet
community and residents of Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. There will be other
opportunities during the tour to learn more about the history while enjoying the
beautiful grounds of the Gallaudet campus.
*There will be no CEU credit offered for this pre-conference session. |
Length: |
3 hour |
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