Thursday, March 1, 2018

Friday, March 2, 2018

Conference Location:

Weill Cornell Medical College
Uris Auditorium
1300 York Avenue (@69th Street)
New York City

Overview

Day 1 will focus on A VT Strategies, Assessments, and reading comprehension, language development and theory of mind as it relates to children with hearing loss. Day 2 will include presentation on Quality of life for children with Cis or HAs, Minimum Speech Test Battery, Speech Discrimination as well as the medical management of SSD and clinical practices and outcomes for children with unilateral hearing loss.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

• After the session, participants will be able to distinguish patterns of active ingredients that may lead to successful bilingual and/or multi-lingual learning.
• List activities for promoting auditory comprehension .
• Describe three strategies to use when counseling parents and family members of children with hearing loss.
• Understand the role of etiologic testing, particularly with respect to CMV, in the diagnostic management of SSD.
• Describe auditory and communication outcomes in children with unilateral hearing loss.
• Describe differences in speech discrimination abilities between infants with and without hearing losJ.
• State the variables that could impact benefit for bimodal and bilateral CI recipients.
• Outline two clinical guidelines for clinicians and parents that support a healthy trajectory of conversational competence in children who are D/HH.
• Describe the Pediatric Minimum Speech Test Battery, from parent report to sentence perception in noise, and the rationale to transition to the next assessment or listen in a condition within the protocol.
• Describe patterns of peer victimization (bullying) in adolescents with cochlear implants.

To view the Controversial Issues in Pediatric Audiology 2018 Disclosure document for information on speaker’s
financial and non-financial interests relevant to the content of their presentation please visit our website at: https://childrenshearing.org

Speakers

Dylan Chan, MD, PhD, FAAP
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery
University of California, San Francisco

William Michael Douglas, CCC/SLP,
LSLS Cert AVT Director, Speech Rehabilitation Program
Med-El Corporation

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, PhD, Cert AVT
Full Professor, Audiology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa;
Senior Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute

Rene H. Gifford, PhD
Professor, Vanderbilt University
Director, Cochlear Implant Program Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center

Amy McConkey Robbins, MS, CCC/SLP,
LSLS Cert AVT Speech-Language Pathologist

Elizabeth Rosenzweig, MS, CCC/SLP,
LSLS Cert AVT Private Practice
www.Auditory Verbal Therapy. net

Kristin M. Uhler, PhD
Co-Chair, Scottish Rite, Endowed Chair in Childhood Language Disorders; Chair, Audiology, Speech Pathology, and Learning Services; Co-Chair, Bill Daniels Center for Children’s Hearing, Children’s Hospital Colorado; Associate Professor, CU School of Medicine

Andrea D. Warner-Czyz, PhD
The University of Texas at Dallas
Callier Advanced Hearing Research Center

Lindsay Zombek, MS, CCC/SLP, LSLS CertAVT
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Agenda

Day 1

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Welcome I Introduction
Conversation And Electricity: They Only Operate lJ
Amy McConkey Robbins, MS, CCC/SLP, LSLS Cert A

BREAK/EXHIBITS
Avoiding Parroting: Promoting True Auditory Com
Lindsay Zombek, MS, CCC/SLP, LSLS Cert AVT

LUNCH/EXHIBITS
Brains, Heart, and Courage: Your Toolbox For Co
Elizabeth Rosenzweig, MS, CCC/SLP, LSLS Cert AVT
Dual Language Learning For Children With Hearing
How Did They Do That?-Michael Douglas, MA, CCC/
Speaker’s Panel / Question & Answer

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS

Day 2

REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Welcome / Introduction
Assessing Speech Discrimination In Infants With H
Processing Matter? -Kristen M. Uhler, PhD
Clinical Characteristics, Practices And Outcomes 0
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, PhD

BREAK/EXHIBITS
Medical Management of SSD: Etiologic Testing,
Dylan Chan, MD

LUNCH/EXHIBITS
Peer Relationships In Adolescents With Cochlear
Andrea D. Warner-Czyz, PhD
Factors Impacting Bimodal And Bilateral CI Candi
Rene H. Gifford, PhD
Clinical Implementation Of The Pediatric Minimum
K. Uhle1~ PhD, R. Gifford, PhD, and A. 1A/arner-Czyz, Pili
Speaker’s Panel / Question & Answer

CONFERENCE ADJOURNS