APSCI 2013 - The 9th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences

Key Topics

• HABILITATION
  • Instruments/Questionnaires for outcome analysis
  • Speech and Language outcomes
  • Special groups: paediatric, adult and multiple handicaps
  • Bimodal hearing and bilateral implants: Outcomes
  • Other modes of communication
  • Auditory verbal therapy
  • Assistive Listening Devices
  • Special listening situations: the classroom implantee
  • Integrated/Inclusive Education
• SURGERY
  • Surgery for ABI/Midbrain implants
  • Classic and Alternative techniques of CI surgery
  • Surgery for Middle Ear Implantable Hearing Devices (MEIHDs)
  • Surgery for Bone Conduction Implants (BAHA, Bone Bridge and others)
  • Revision surgery/ Reimplantations
  • Complications and their management
  • Surgical options for Single Sided Deafness (SSD)
  • Hearing Preservation surgery
  • Robotics in Implant Surgery
  • Implant options in Cochleovestibular Anomalies
  • Totally Implantable Hearing Devices
• AUDIOLOGY
  • Signal processing - Recent advances
  • Electrophysiology - Recent advances
  • Electroacoustic stimulation
  • Audiological Outcomes of cochlear implants
  • Bimodal hearing
  • Spatial hearing - Bilateral Implants
  • Mapping: Basic, Smart, Remote
  • Newer/extended indications for CI
  • Middle Ear Implantable Hearing Devices; Audiological indications and outcomes
  • Bone Conduction Physiology and Implants
  • Neonatal Screening: Targetted and Universal
  • Brainstem and beyond
  • Future trends in Diagnostic procedures
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • Genetics
  • Basic Sciences
  • Stem cell therapy
  • Hair cell regeneration
  • Radiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • CI programmes in the developing world
  • Technology updates
  • Future of implantation otology
  • History of implantation otology

Who should Attend

Surgeons, researchers, practitioners and young scientists from across the world.