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Thursday, October 8, 2015
TIME PRESENTATION
[Student Activity Center]
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
 
Pre-Conference Session
'Tour of River School and Georgetown University Audiology'
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
 
Pre-Conference Session
'Family Support & Empowerment for Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Considerations within Humanitarian Efforts'

Lisa Kovacs Janet DesGeorges Sheila Moodie [SAC: Flex B] 		Pre-Conference Session
'Introduction to Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment'

Andrew Smith Daksha Patel [SAC 1011] 		Pre-Conference Session
'Operating a Field-based Earmold Lab'

David Pither [SAC: Flex A]
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
 
Pre-Conference Session
'How Emerging Findings In Neuroscience Apply to Early Intervention Practices: Addressing Brain Development and Early Visual Language in Infants, Toddlers and Young Children'

Melissa Herzig [SAC: Flex B] 		Pre-Conference Session
'Practical Guide to Humanitarian Missions for Improving Hearing Health'

Jean Johnson Debra Fried James Smith [SAC: Flex A]

Friday, October 9, 2015
TIME PRESENTATION
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
 
Registration & Coffee [Student Activity Center]
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
 
Welcome
[Andrew Foster Auditorium]
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Technology
 
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
Clinical validity of hearScreen™ smartphone hearing screening for school children
Faheema Mahomed-Asmail
De Wet Swanepoel
Herman Myburgh
Robert Eikelboom
James Hall
Enabling Us to Experience Equal Access via Technology
karunya samuel
Michaela Hanley
Mobile Tablet Audiometry - Building a low cost school screening program
Matthew Bromwich
SMARTPHONE HEARING SCREENING IN mHEALTH ASSISTED COMMUNITY-BASED PRIMARY CARE
Shouneez Yousuf Hussein
De Wet Swanepoel
Herman Myburgh
Robert Eikelboom
Jannie Hugo
Leigh Biagio de Jager
Social Business as vehicle to democratize access to hearing aids
Howard Weinstein
 
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
APPLYING PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF HEARING LOSS.
Daksha Patel
Joanna Anderson
Andrew Smith
Evaluation of uHear iPhone app for Hearing Screening
Shazia Peer
Johannes Fagan
Tele-audiology in Africa: The Story Evolves
Shannon O'Leary (née Kruyt)
Understanding and Living with a Cochlear Implant: A Psychotherapeutic Approach
Magteld Smith
Validation of smart phone apps as an environmental noise monitoring tool and its application in Abuja city noise mapping.
Titus Ibekwe
Enoch Dahilo
David Folorunsho
Ibeneche Gbujie
Nicholas Baamlong
Onyekwere Nwaorgu
Chimdi Chibuike
Suleiman Habibab
Helen Mamven
Agbor Ebuta
Job Amodu
Maxwell Nwegbu
Durogbola Babajide
Liman Idris
Okebaram Chukwudi
 
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
 
Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
A Global Perspective at Ensuring Hearing Health Accountability
Tawny Holmes
Howard Rosenblum
Assessing and Meeting the Needs of the People in Arima, Trinidad
Crystal Wiggins
Assessment of Status of Ear & Hearing Care in South East Asia Region
Dr Suneela Garg
Deeksha Khurana
Dr Tanu Anand
Dr Ritesh Singh
Dr Arun Agarwal
Hexagenarians Up! Aural Rehabilitation of Elderly Khmers with Disabling Deafness
Jean Johnson
Glyn Vaughan
The global status of newborn and infant hearing screening
Katrin Neumann
 
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
 
Lunch On Your Own
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium SAC Auditorium
 
Cochlear Implantation and Deaf Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cost Effectiveness Study
Susan Emmett, MD, MPH
Kaitesi Mukara
Debara Tucci MD, MS, MBA
Isaac M. Macharia, MBChB, MMed
Serah N. Ndegwa, Msc
Doreen Nakku, MBChB, Mmed
Wakisa Mulwafu, MBBS, FCORL
Wenfeng Gong, Msc
Howard W. Fancis, MD, MBA
James E. Saunders
Titus Ibekwe
Magteld Smith
Services for the hearing impaired in Peru
Irene Garcia-Benavides
The societal and economic impact of treated hearing loss is – good!
Soren Hougaard
UN CRPD and the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: A Fifteen-Year Global Action Plan and Advocacy for LMICs’ Hearing Systems Development
Evelyn Cherow
Utilizing 5 Hearing & Communication Centers in East Java Province
Nyilo Purnami
Challenges and Considerations fro Supporting Deaf Education in Nicaragua
Mark Falk
Do HIV and Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy affect the hearing function: a prospective case-control study among HIV-infected and -uninfected Cameroonians.
Jean Valentin Fokouo
Education Starts at Birth: Hearing Health and Inclusion
Josh Josa
Tawny Holmes
Increasing access to hearing implants to further enhance educational and professional opportunities to people in low-resource settings
Patrick D'Haese
Self-reported etiologies of hearing loss in patients turning up to receive hearing aids during an audio-otology camp in Rwanda
Kaitesi Mukara
Ntihabose Killy Corneille
 
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium SAC Auditorium
 
Lessons to Learn from International Deaf College Students: A Panel Discussion
Beth Benedict
Counteracting Stigma: Social Identity, Culture, and Hearing Health
Susan Shepherd
Pauline Njogu-Marinus
Empowering families through culturally sensitive, parent-centered education
Kelleigh Bland
Johanna Lynch
Essential Programs to Coach and Empower Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Joanne Travers
The Månha Project: Resilient Enabling Community-based Initiatives
Heather Zimmerman
A Community-based Hearing Intervention for Korean American Older Adults with Hearing Impairment: A Pilot Study
Janet Choi
Frank Lin
Bilingual Cancer Genetics Materials: Education, Advocacy, and Accessibility
Patrick Boudreault
Early Childhood Education at the Clerc Center: Sharing Our Practices
Debra Trapani
Debra Cushner
It is our Technology: How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities Can Take Control
Christian Vogler
Linda Kozma-Spytek
U.S./Russian Partnership: Supporting Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Janet DesGeorges
Using Technology to Support Bilingual and Spoken Language Development
Melissa Herzig
Melissa Malzkuhn
 
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
Break
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
Empowering Parent Leaders in Yinchuan, China
Candace Lindow-Davies
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
Hearing Loss Prevention Program in Kinshasa, Dr Congo
Dr A.N. Kalombo
New Resources in Deaf Education-Setting Language in Motion: Family Supports and Early Intervention for Babies who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Students with Cochlear Implants: Guidelines for Educational Program Planning.
Debra Nussbaum
Mary Ann Kinsella-Meier
Parents as Partners
Lisa Kovacs
 
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
 
Posters & Reception [Kellogg Conference Hotel Ballroom]
view posters
7:15 PM - 9:00 PM
Kellogg Conference Hall
 
Promoting ear and hearing care in countries: WHO principles and strategies
Shelly Chada (India)
 
Keynote
'A Global Connection Gala: Making Hearing Health a Priority'

Francoise Goudenove (France) [Kellogg Conference Hall]

Saturday, October 10, 2015
TIME PRESENTATION
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
A Program to Educate and Train Audiometry Technicians in Nicaragua and the Development of a Sustainable Audiology Humanitarian Program
Mark Sanders
Debra Fried
A Sustainable Model to Increase Capacity in Vietnam to Serve Young Children With Hearing Loss
Paige Stringer
Community-based Education Model for Promoting Early Childhood Hearing Outreach
Lindsay Bondurant
Antony Joseph
HEARS: A Community-Delivered, Affordable, Accessible Hearing Care Intervention for Older Adults
Carrie Nieman
Sara Mamo
Nicole Marrone
Sarah Szanton
Elizabeth Tanner
Frank Lin
 
9:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
Introduction of cued Amharic to Ethiopian deaf education
Miriam Redleaf
abera nega
NIH Funding for Global Health Research
Lana Shekim
On pursuit of a sustainable international service project in otology- is “teach a man how to fish” paradigm sufficient?
ashkan monfared
Otologic surgery training in a rural Ethiopian community
Miriam Redleaf
Understanding Variability in Literacy Growth for Deaf Children with Different Characteristics and Different Language Experiences
Thomas Allen
 
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
 
Break
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
Relations of Hard of Hearing persons and hearing health professionals in light of the new hearing technologies
Avi Blau
Satisfied? Sustaining Community-based Hearing Health Care
Ronald Brouillette
The Hear the World Foundation, external donors and audiology service development: Lessons from Malawi
John Bamford
Ora Buerkli
The UN CRPD and Deaf People
Joseph Murray
 
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
All deaf children should be taught a sign language.
Gaurav Mathur
Tom Humphries
Poorna Kushalnagar
Donna Jo Napoli
Scott Smith
Carol Padden
Christian Rathmann
Considerations in Facilitating Development of Signed and Spoken Language With Young Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Christi Batamula
Bobbie Jo Kite
Julie Mitchiner
Debra Nussbaum
Doing What Works - The Evolution of Project EAR in the Dominican Republic
Edward Dodson
Instant Earmolds Options - Commercial and New Alternatives
King Chung
Danica Billingsly
Why is more evidence needed globally on the burden of hearing loss and how can we get it?
Andrew Smith
Daksha Patel
Joanna Anderson
 
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
Lunch On Your Own
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
A Model for Training Audiology-Proficiency Personnel
Giri Sundar
Victor Bray
Cargo Culture & Audiology in the 21st Century
David Pither
Challenges to Identifying Newborn Hearing Loss on Remote and Rural Islands
Agnes Flood-Tse
Jean Johnson
Closing the Gap when working With Spanish Speaking Families
Lucia Quinonez Sumner
Roxanne Dearman
Intellectual Disabilities and Hearing Loss: The Forgotten Many Identified by a Public Health Model of Hearing Health Services
Gilbert Herer
 
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
 
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Andrew Foster Auditorium
 
Designing a Model Program to Maximize Impact for Global Hearing Health
Dave Fabry
Make Listening Safe: a global initiative for all
Shelly Chada (India)
The ask and the task of hearing parents of children who are deaf learning Sign Language
Neethie (Lavanithum) Joseph
Thinking locally and globally. Fresh perspectives on applying three decades of research into epidemiology into permanent childhood hearing loss.
Adrian Davis
Katrina Davis
Working towards a global outreach in ear and hearing care
Diego Santana-Hernandez
Sian Tesni
 
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
 
Last Words - Way Forward
[Andrew Foster Auditorium]