AUDIOLOGY WORKSHOP


    
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 Day One: 2nd of April 2008
 
Diamond Room
09.00 Benefits of Newborn Hearing Screening: The Impact of Early Detection on Auditory Learning & Spoken Language.
Judith A. Marlowe, Ph.D., FAAA
10.30 Implementation of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Programs in Developing Countries: Key Issues and Challenges
Kim S Abouchacra, PhD
12.00 Neonatal Hearing Screening in the NICU Ain Shams University Experience
Hesham M Taha, MD
12.30 Lunch
   
Emerald Room
14.00 Cochlear Corp Miniseminar: Bilateral Cochlear
Implants: Bilateral Cochlear Implant Outcomes
T Hullar
Bilateral Cochlear Implants: Audiological Perspective

T Adams
Counseling Families and Patients on Bilateral Cochlear Implants

M Tarabichi
16.00 Special Sessions By Medel Electronics:
Cochlear Implants in the Middle East

Moderator: Ahmed Handousa
CI of Common Cavity Deformities: Auditory Performance and Speech Recognition

J Kassouma
Balance Function Following Cochlear Implant Surgery

T Hullar
Innovation in Cochlear Implant Surgery

Khaled Taibah
Habilitation of the Cochlear Implant Child

Rana Batterjee & Nadine Ewanchyshyn
Cochlear implantation in deaf- blind patient
Prof. Ahmed Daneshi
   
 Day Two: 3rd of April 2008
   
Diamond Room
09.00 Bilateral CI-Candidacy, Outcomes, Success and Mapping/COCHLEAR
T Adams
10.00 Bilateral CI-Candidacy, Outcomes, Success and Mapping/MEDEL
M Waller
11.00 Use of FM in the Classroom/COCHLEAR
T Adams
11.30 Use of FM in the Classroom/MEDEL
M Waller
12.00  Question and Answer
12.30 Lunch
   
Emerald Room
14.00 Micromedical Technologies Mini Seminar: Vestibular Testing
Moderator: Ossama Mansour
Contemporary Workup for Imbalance

T Hullar
Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMP) - Introduction and Overview

S Rausch
Rotational Tests in Diagnosis of Dizzy Patients

Hesham Taha
Other Novel Vestibular Testing Techniques

T Hullar
   
Regency Room A
11.00-14.00 Vestibular Workshop: Hands-on Training
Mr Malaz Sharafly
Micromedical Technologies, USA
   
 Day Three: 4th of April 2008
   
American Hospital Dubai
Middle East Perspective
09.00 Universal Newborn Hearing Screening at the American Hospital Dubai
Lubaina Sharafally
09.30 CI Re-Habilitation Practices in the Middle East
Ghada Ahmad
10.30 International Round Table Discussions
11.30 American Hospital Dubai Recent Developments
12.00  Tour AHD CI Center and Oasis Aural Habilitation Center
   




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