Friday October 24
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Friday 24 October 2025 |
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Room 1: Session 1 Moderator: James E Saunders |
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08:30 |
Opening Ceremony Professor James E Saunders |
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08:45 |
Keynote From global to local and back again: stories and lessons learned as a global citizen in school-based hearing screening Associate Professor Asitha Jayawardena |
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09:45 |
Promoting Healthy Hearing Over the Lifespan: Dr. James W Hall 111 |
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10:15 |
Break / Exhibitors |
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Room 1: Session 2: Technology Moderator: Miriam Redleaf |
Room 2: Session 3: Empowering Families Moderator: Laurel Gregory |
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11:00 |
Can Tablet-Based Testing Differentiate Conductive from Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children? Morgan McBride |
Language Nutrition: The Key Role of Families in Fostering Language and Literacy. Donna Sorkin |
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11:15 |
How to Leverage AI to Help Increase Access to Hearing Aids & Hearing Care in Low-Resource Settings. Audra Renyi |
Family-Centred Early Intervention (FCEI) Principles in Action (A case study from India). Shampa Nath |
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11:30 |
Open-source platform for hearing research and low-cost device development. Odile Clavier |
The experience of hearing loss in families with deaf school-going adolescents within a rural context in South Africa. Nomataru Gontse |
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11:45 |
Pricing Survey and Affordable DPOAE Concept for Under-Resourced Settings Arianne Fong, Trinity Lee, Rustin Katsura |
A Deaf Ecological Systems Approach to Raising a Deaf Child Mary Clark, & Jessica Beaty Bajan |
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12:00 |
Acceptability of bone conduction hearing devices among school going children in urban Blantyre, Malawi: a qualitative study. Wezi Msukwa-Panje |
Perceptions of Deaf Children and Their Parents on Spiritual Nurture Experiences at Church: A Case of Lugha Ishara Centre, Nairobi County Nancy Maina |
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12:15 |
A Scoping Review of Studies Related to Amplification in South Africa Kalishia Naidu |
Strengthening Hearing Health via Family Empowerment: A Low-Cost Intervention for Children with Hearing Impairment. Dinukshi Ileperuma |
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12:30 |
Poster Presentations in the Cafeteria |
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13:00 |
Lunch Break / Exhibitors |
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13:30 |
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Room 2: Hearing Health Advocates group hybrid meeting. Diego Santana-Hernández |
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Room 1: Session 4: Training and Education Moderators: Ellen Haggerty & Doreen Nakku |
Room 2: Session 5: Advocacy & Community Engagement Moderator: Elizabeth Johansen |
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14:30 |
The Importance of Cultural Competency in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology. Fernando Rengifo Caicedo |
Starkey Hearing Foundation: WFA Community Based Hearing Health Care Model. Norberto Martinez |
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14:45 |
Leveraging Hearing Aid Data to Strengthen Pediatric Fittings: A Complementary Strategy for Capacity Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Jacqueline Drexler |
Community-Based Outreach for Ear and Hearing Care in Papua New Guinea: Strategies for Addressing Hearing Impairment through Intervention and Knowledge Management. Mary Ponifasio |
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15:00 |
Clinical Otologic Profile, Awareness, Perceptions, and Literacy on Hearing Health Among Employees in A Tertiary Hospital in the Philippines. Janine Marriah Dela Cruz |
Current Status of Hearing and Mental Health Systems for Older Adults in the Philippines: A Scoping Review Carlos Diego Rozul |
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15:15 |
Gaming and digital technology in healthcare training: A review of studies in African countries. Kalishia Naidu |
Strengthening Mental Health Competencies in Health Practitioners: Addressing the Needs of People with Hearing Loss. Jane Lee |
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15:30 |
Evaluating Training Outcomes of Grassroot Workers in conducting Hearing, Speech, and Language Screening for Children Under Six Using the SRESHT Screener” Lekha S Nair |
Comparative study of the medical and surgical management of serious otitis media at the provincial general referral hospital of Bukavu in the DRC. Patrick Balungwe Birindwa |
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Room 1: Session 6: Best Practices Moderator: Stacie Ray |
Room 2: Session 7: Advocacy & Community Engagement. Moderator: Suzanne Purdy |
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15:45 |
Comparison of OAE Amplitudes of Children in Cambodia and in the US King Chung |
Infant Hearing Screening in Addis Ababa-Strengthening National Hearing Care. Bilen Korra Gelaye |
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16:00 |
Evolution of an NGO-based Audiology Program Partnership in Nicaragua Mark D. Falk, Debra Fried |
Noise Induced Hearing Loss in Glass Factory Workers in Delta State Nigeria: An 8 year follow up Nekwu Okolugbo |
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16:15 |
A New Evidence-Based Approach for Hearing Screening of Preschool and School Children. James W Hall 111 |
Evaluating Colourism in Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Design in the United States Market: A 20-Year Longitudinal Analysis. Shade Kirjava |
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16:30 |
Development of an otology fellowship at Makerere University in Uganda. Building hearing healthcare capacity through local training and partnerships. Akulu Joviah |
From Zero to Hero: Current status of Ear and Hearing Care in Rwanda – Challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt
Kaitesi Mukara |
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16:45 |
Prevalence of hearing loss and factors associated with hearing loss in Ethiopia: findings from the 2023 National Ethiopia Hearing Survey. Alene Meshesha |
Rethinking Hearing Technology Innovation: Bridging Global Disparities in Hearing Care Access (technology)
Davis Banturaki |