FCEI 2024 Conference Planning Committee

 

Gwen Carr (UK)

Independent Consultant UCL Ear Institute London

 

Natasha Cloete (New Zealand)

First Signs Team Leader

 

Evelien Dirks (The Netherlands)

Senior Researcher, The Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child (NSDSK), Royal Dutch Kentalis, Amsterdam

Elaine Gale (US)

Hunter College CUNY
 

Daniel Holzinger (Austria)

Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz

 

Karen Hopkins (US)

Executive Director, The Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

 

Josip Ladić (Croatia)

Architect and a parent of five daughters, one of which is DHH

 

Daiva Müllegger-Treciokaite (Austria)

Parent peer, Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St John of God, Linz

 

Leeanne Seaver (US)

Global Coalition of Parents (GPODHH)

 

Trudy Smith (Australia)

NextSense Institute, Sydney 

 

Christie Yoshinaga-Itano (US)

University of Colorado

 

Local Organising Group

 

Daniel Holzinger – Congress President
Johannes Fellinger – Host
Daiva Müllegger-Trečiokaite
Alexandra Mayer-Weinreich

Laura Habermaier

Sabine Windisch
Magdalena Dall

Herta Winter

Doris Binder

Advisory Group

 

The Advisory group is drawn from a wide range of fields and background experience including parent representatives, deaf professionals, intervention providers/education researchers, other professionals from the field of medicine, psychology, social care and audiology.

 

Beth Benedict (US)

Executive Director, Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach, Gallaudet University, Washington

 

Michelle Berke (US)

Principal, Early Childhood Education Dept, California School for the Deaf

 

Doris Binder (Austria)

Speech therapist, Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St John of God, Linz

 

Bianca Birdsey (South Africa)

Chair and Founder, THRIVE Parent Support and Advocacy Group;GPODHH Director of Global Family Support Initiatives

 

Gwen Carr (UK)

UCL Ear Institute, London, UK; Consultant in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention and Family Centred Practice; Hon. Senior Research Associate, the University College London Ear Institute

 

Natasha Cloete (New Zealand)

First Signs Team Leader

 

Jodee Crace (US)

SKI-Hi Deaf Mentor Program; Adjunct Faculty Infant Toddler and Families, Gallaudet University

 

Kathryn Crowe (Australia)

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iceland, Iceland; Adjunct Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University

 

Janet DesGeorges (US)

Executive Director, Hands and Voices Headquarters US;

Mother of deaf daughter

 

Evelien Dirks (The Netherlands)

Senior Researcher, The Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child (NSDSK), Royal Dutch Kentalis, Amsterdam

 

Johannes Fellinger (Austria)

Head of the Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz

 

Bridget Ferguson (New Zealand)

General Manager:Services, Deaf Aotearoa

 

Elaine Gale (US)

Coordinator, Hunter College Deaf and Hard of Hearing teacher preparation program, New York

 

Barbara Gängler (Germany)

Clinical Linguist and CEO German Cochlear Implant Society, Mother of a deaf daughter

 

Anita Grover (UK)

Chief Executive, Auditory Verbal UK, London

 

Suzanne Harris (Australia)

Team Leader, Queensland Hearing Loss Family Support Service, Queensland

 

Johannes Hofer (Austria)

Neuropediatrician specialized in multiple disabilities of deaf children, Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz

 

Sonya Myhre Holten (Norway)

Sign language planner/senior adviser at the Language Council of Norway

 

Daniel Holzinger (Austria)

Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz

 

Karen Hopkins (US)

Executive Director, The Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

 

Nina Jakhelln Laugen (Norway)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology

 

Lucas Magongwa (South Africa)

Lecturer, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

 

Jolanta McCall (UK)

Chief Executive and Principal, Seashell Trust, Manchester

 

Melissa McCarthy (Australia)

Early Childhood  Teacher / Teacher  of the Deaf; PhD candidate, University of Newcastle, NSW

 

Teresa McDonnell (Ireland)

Co-Founder, Sharing the Journey, Dublin, Ireland; Parent and GPODHH member

 

Mary Pat Moeller (US)

Scientist Emerita, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska

 

Sheila Moodie (Canada)

Associate Professor, Western University School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The National Centre for Audiology, Longon, Ontario

 

Guita Movallali (Iran)

Associate Professor and Head of deaf / HoH Research Centre, USWR University Founder of Faranak Clinic for deaf children, Tehran

 

Daiva Müllegger-Trečiokaite (Austria)

Parent peer, Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St John of God, Linz

 

Robert Nutt (US)

Developmental Paediatrician, Atrium Health / Levine Children’s Hospital / Carolina’s Healthcare System, North Carolina

 

Stephanie Olson (US)

D/HH Infusion Hands and Voices Headquarters Family Consultant, Children’s Hospital Colorado

 

Bola Olusanya (Nigeria)

Developmental Paediatrician and Executive Director, Centre for Healthy Start Initiative, Ikoyi, Lagos

 

Paula Pittman (US)

Director, The SKI-HI and Deaf Mentor Outreach and Training Programme, SKI-HI Institute, Utah State University

 

Ann Porter (Australia)

Parent and Vice Chair, GPODHH; Founder and CEO, Aussiedeafkids

 

Zeffi Poulakis (Australia)

Director, Victorian Infant Screening Programme, Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne; Research Officer, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Hon. Fellow, Dept. Paediatrics, University of Melbourne

 

Karen Putz (US)

Co-Director of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infusion, Hands and Voices Headquarters

 

Katherine Rogers (UK)

Research Fellow; Social Research with Deaf people (SORD); Division of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and HealthDivision of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health; University of Manchester

 

Jane Rusell (UK)

UK GPODHH representative / Parent Researcher, University of Manchester

 

Snigdha Sarkar (India)

President, Anwesha Kolkata, West Bengal

Parent and GPODHH member

 

Leeanne Seaver (US)

Global Coalition of Parents

 

Trudy Smith (Australia)

NextSense Institute, Sydney 

 

Claudine Storbeck (South Africa)

Professor and Director, Centre for Deaf Studies; Director, HI-HOPES, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

 

Arlene Stredler-Brown (US)

University of Colorado, Boudler, CO

 

Amy Szarkowski (US)

Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital and Institute for Community Inclusion; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

 

Nanette Thompson (US)

Consultant Speech and Language Pathologist, Listening 2 Learn / The Listen Foundation, Colorado

 

Sabine Windisch (Austria)

Social worker and parent peer, Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St John of God, Linz

 

Xuan Zheng (China)

Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University

 

Christie Yoshinanaga-Itano (US)

University of Colorado, Boudler, CO

 

Alys Young (UK)

Professor of Social Work Education and Research; Director of SORD (Social Research with Deaf People) Group, University of Manchester

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