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Meet Global Experts Live Online: Andrew Kendrick, “My Experience Book – a Gateway to Literacy by Andrew Kendrick”, May 20th and 31st

Aim of the meeting: in the course of a PORA and a parents’  webinar with an international expert, certified audio-verbal therapist Andrew Kendrick from Australia, we will discuss ways of getting children with a CI ready for school; we will see how children learn to express thoughts and feelings and become confident in new surroundings.

Agenda: the presentation of Andrew Kendrick
“My Experience Book – a Gateway to Literacy”.

To find out more about Andrew Kendrick, please follow this link to his profile.

When:  presentation for parents - Sunday, May 20th 2012, 18:00 German time (20:00 Moscow time); presentation for logopeds, SLPs and other rehabilitation professionals – Thursday, May 31st, 9:30 German time (11:30 Moscow time). The meeting will be recorded and published, open for comments of interested participants.

Where: live online (audio conference room) – join the meeting here.

(Having opened the link, enter your login and leave the password field empty. Launch the application and, if needed, update your Java software – you can get it here). In case of technical problems, please contact us on skype (a.slukhai).

Participation: May 20th – parents and reha specialists; May 31st – logopeds, SLPs, teachers. Registration by entering a comment into the “Leave a Comment/Reply” field underneath this posting

Related links and further information:

  • Language: English, translation into Russian
  • Please find here Andrew Kendrick’s answers to the questions he  was asked by parents and experts in the previous webinar
  • Here you can see a few slides of the upcoming presentation:

Profile: Barbara Streicher

Barbara Streicher, PhD

Cologne, Germany

barbara.streicher@t-online.de
Education: University of Cologne, major in ‘Special pedagogics’, ‘Communication’ and ‘Emotional development in history lessons’.

Practice in a school for the hard of hearing. Upon graduation – degree as ‘Defectologist’

Qualification enhancement:

Courses in audio-verbal speech and language pedagogics  in Canada and the USA.

Courses in consulting parents of small children and psychotherapy under the supervision of MD, Prof. M. Papousek in the Institute for social pediatrics and adolescent medicine of the Munich Ludwig-Maximilian University.

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Highlights of the XXXI World Congress of Audiology Moscow, April 29 – May 3, 2012

Summary of the World Congress of Audiology in Moscow by Monika Lehnhardt.

Day 1 was devoted to basic research

Biological and Genetic Basis for Hearing Loss

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Questions to Andrew Kendrick

In this posting, we have listed all the questions that Dr. Andrew Kendrick was asked during his presentation on March 25th.

UPDATE: NOW you can find the answers given by Dr. Kendrick in this posting as well! Please feel free to comment!

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Profile: Monika Lehnhardt

Dr. Dr.h.c. Monika Lehnhardt was born in Vienna and graduated from the University Alma Mater Rudolphina. She obtained her PhD in philology, psychology and philosophy. During her professoinal career she has held various positions in companies such as Schering (Berlin), Monsanto (Dusseldorf and Brussels) and Pharmacia (Freiburg). She established Cochlear Europe in Basel in 1987. While being Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from 1987 until 1999, Cochlear Europe grew from two to seventy employees and additional offices were opened in London and Hannover. In 1999 she stepped aside and continued to work in a Management position for business development and customer relations which was connected with extensive travel across Europe and the US. Between 2004 and 2008 she concentrated her efforts on 18 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Baltic, to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Since 2002 she has been Chairwoman of the Professor Ernst Lehnhardt-Foundation. She has also served as a member of the Board of Auditory Verbal International, Inc. (AVI. Inc.). In 2007 she established her own company under the name Monsana AG in Basel, Switzerland. In July 2007 she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor by the International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology -Head and Neck Surgery, St. Petersburg. read more –>

Meet Global Experts Live Online: Hearing loss in babies – a neurodevelopmental emergency, Dimity Dornan, May 10th 2012

Aim of the meeting: within the framework of PORA – meeting with international expert, certified audio-verbal therapist Dimity Dornan to discuss the reasons, the treatment and rehabilitation of hearing impairment in newborns and infants.

Agenda: the presentation of Dr. Dimity Dornan “Hearing loss in babies – a neurological emergency”.

To find out more about Dimity Dornan, please follow this link to her profile. To find out more about audio-verbal therapy, please click here.

When:  May 10th 2012, 9.30 CET (Berlin time). The meeting will be recorded and published, open for comments of interested participants.

Where: live online (audio conference room) – join the meeting here. In case of technical problems, please contact us on skype (a.slukhai).

Participation: SLPs, audiologists and physicians. Registration by entering a comment into the “Leave a Comment/Reply” field underneath this posting

Related links and further information:

 

May 6th: Parents’ meeting live online “Cutting-Edge Topics in Cochlear Implantation and Rehabilitation”

Aim of the meeting: becoming acquainted with cutting-edge tendencies in cochlear implantation and rehabilitation presented in the World Audiology Congress in Moscow (April 29-May 3).

Agenda: the presentation of Dr. Dr.h.c. Monika Lehnhardt on state-of-the-art experiences presented in the World Audiology Congress; Q and A and free discussion.

To find out more about Dr. Lehnhardt, please follow this link to her profile.

When: May 6th, 18:00 CET (Berlin time) = 20:00 Moscow time. The meeting will be recorded and published later in this blog.

Where: live online (audio conference room) – join the meeting here. (Info login & open testroom here). Entry into the conference room may require an update of Java software, if you need the newest version installed please follow this link.

Participation: parents, teachers, SLPs. Registration by entering a comment into the “Leave a Comment/Reply” field underneath this posting

Related links and further information:

Language: English, translation into Russian

Website and agenda of the World Audiology Congress
Here you can also see the slides of the presentation:

Meet Global Experts Live Online – Experience, Hear, Write, Understand by Barbara Streicher, June 3rd and 13th

Program in planning. Please add your interest in a comment.

Parents meeting June 17th: “Genetic reasons for deafness by Konstantin Nikiforov”

Program in planning. Please add your interest in a comment.

Parents meeting July 1st

Program in planning. Please add your interest in a comment.