Monday November 14th
9.00
Introductions and welcome (John Bamford)
9.15
Conference Keynote Address: Anu Sharma (USA)
Plasticity in the Developing Auditory Brain: Clinical Evidence from Children with Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
Session One: Identification and assessment (Chair: Richard Seewald)
10.00
Paul Govaerts (Belgium): Early detection: still a challenge?
10.30
Guy Lightfoot (UK): Ensuring high-quality ABR assessment in babies
11.00
Tea/coffee break
11.30
Anne Marie Tharpe (USA): Behavioural assessment in babies and infants
12.00
Thomas Wiesner (Germany) Assessment of children with complex needs
12.30
Lunch
Session Two: Current Developments in Amplification (Chair: Ferda Akdas)
1.45
Richard Seewald (Canada): Essential Components of the Pediatric Hearing Instrument Fitting Process
2.15
Kristin Kerkhofs (Belgium): Using the A§E ® in very young children for the validation of hearing aid fitting and as a decision criterion for cochlear implantation
2.45
Harvey Dillon (Australia) Using cortical responses to inform management of aided children
3.15
Tea/coffee break
3.45
Bulent Serbetcioglu (Turkey): Preliminary results of longitudinal language development study using dynamic FM combined to cochlear implants
4.15
Gerry O’Donoghue (UK): Paediatric Cochlear Implants: challenges and future directions
5.00
End of first conference day
6.45
Conference Dinner
Tuesday November 15th
Session Three: Outcomes and Family Support (Chair: John Bamford)
8.30
Andrea Bohnert (Germany): Frequency Compression Technology in Hearing Aid Fitting in children
9.15
Wendy McCracken (UK): Audiologists providing Informed Choice
9.45
Gonca Sennaroğlu (Turkey): Audiological findings and rehabilitation in children with inner ear malformations
10.15
Tea/coffee break
10.45
Marlene Bagatto (Canada): An Approach to Evaluating the Impact of Hearing Aid Intervention
11.15
Kai Uus (Estonia/UK): To Fit or Not to Fit and When and How? Fitting Hearing Aids in Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder: Perspective of Parents of Children Identified through Newborn Hearing Screening
11.45
Lunch
Session Four: Clinical Forum (Chair: Andrea Bonhert)
1.00
Patricia Roush (USA): Diagnosis and Management of ANSD in Children
1.45
Josephine Marriage (UK): Case studies: Using speech-hearing testing to optimise amplification in children
2.15
Marlene Bagatto (Canada): Using the UWO PedAMP for Outcome Evaluation: Case Studies
2.45
End note address: Anne Marie Tharpe (USA)
3.30
Close of conference (Ora Buerkli-Halevy, Phonak)
