NHS 2010 - Beyond Newborn Hearing Screening: Infant and Childhood Hearing in Science and Clinical Practice

The NHS conference will include keynote addresses, special sessions, workshops, a number of satellite events, free communications and massive poster sessions.

Main Topics

• Neuromaturation and plasticity
• Genetics of hearing loss
• Auditory Neuropathy
• Cochlear implants
• Technological improvements in diagnosis
• Development in Hearing Devices
• Family empowerment
• Intervention strategies for infants
• Changing criteria for cochlear implantation in early infancy
• Outcome measures of early intervention

Other topics of interest

Physiologic measures of audiological function - Language development, cognition and deafness - Newborn hearing screening - Audiological assessment - Clinical decision making in the audiological test battery - Aetiological evaluation - Mild and unilateral hearing loss - Steady State Evoked Potentials - Information management, tracking and monitoring - Program evaluation and quality issues - Outcomes of early identified children (long lasting programs) - Language outcomes in infants with cochlear implants - Medical and surgical intervention for hearing loss - Pediatric hearing health services - Family-directed services for deaf and hard-of-hearing infants - Family counselling - Web-based resources for parents and professionals - Impact of deafness on family systems - Perspectives of the Deaf community - Parents` perspective.