Meetings and Workshops
Hearing Across the LifeSpan (HEAL): Cernobbio, Lake Como , Italy: 2-4 June 2016
Topics to be addressed in the HEAL conference :
Screening and Early Identification
- Hearing screening across the lifespan: newborn, pre-school, school-age, adult and elderly screening; targeted screening (workplace, at-risk populations)
- Screening methods, techniques, and devices
- Audiological assessment: audiological test battery, evoked potentials, central and cognitive tests, medical imaging
- Early Hearing Detection and Intervention programs: guiding principles, protocols and implementation, quality assurance
- Hearing loss prevention
- Clinical decision making and health policy issues
Intervention and Rehabilitation Strategies
- Development of hearing devices and instrumentation
- Cochlear implants
- Implantable devices
- Auditory training
- Psychosocial approaches
- e-health resources
- Family and carers empowerment
- Outcome evaluation
Hearing Loss: Mechanisms, Effects and Medical Issues
- Basic research on hearing loss
- Speech and language development
- Maturation and plasticity
- Causes of hearing loss: genetics, risk-factors and harmful agents, age-related hearing loss
- Medical conditions, comorbidity, and syndromes
- Impact of hearing disorders: communicative, psychological, social and family issues