NHS 2010 - Beyond Newborn Hearing Screening: Infant and Childhood Hearing in Science and Clinical Practice
The NHS 2010 will include Keynote addresses, free communications, massive poster sessions, workshops and a number of satellite events and special sessions. Abstract submission: January 25, 2010; Notification of acceptance (oral or poster): March 8, 2010; Early registration and hotel accommodation: April 12, 2010
Venue:
Villa Erba Congress Center, Cernobbio, Italy
Program will include:
- A series of linked workshops on the theme of delivering an effective screening program organised by the National Health Service Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) from UK;
- A Special Session on the state of implementation of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention programs (EHDI). National and Regional representatives will report on the state-of-the-art from all around the world;
- A Special Session on EHDI in Developing Countries - Opportunities and Challenges;
- The General Assembly of the EFAS (European Federation of Audiology Societies) for National Representatives;
- A session entirely dedicated to family support, organised by the Global Coalition of Parents of Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children (GPOD);
- Oticon Paediatric Symposium;
- Phonak Satellite Event (Richard Seewald among other guests)
The topics will cover all aspects related to early hearing intervention, from comprehensive reviews on plasticity and re-organisation of Central Auditory System (Anu Shama, Keynote Speaker) to educationial workshops, from improving methods and protocols to assess hearing in newborns and infants to family issues, from strategies to improve the outcomes of EHDI programs to new concepts in hearing aid fitting and advances in cochlear implementation.
