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SUMMARY:AHH Seminar: ABC of Communication (Auditory processing\, Bilingualism\, and Cognition) ...
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday 16 February\nTime: 9.00am-12.15pm\nLocation: Australian Hearing Hub\,Level 1\, Lecture Theatre \nProgram: \n\n9:00 – 9:05: Introduction by Associate Professor Mridula Sharma (Department of Linguistic\, Australian Hearing Hub)\n9:05 – 9:45: “The role of motivation in listening effort” by Professor Mary Rudner (Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning\, Linköping University\, Sweden)\nAbstract: Hard of hearing people often report listening effort but it has been unclear how this phenomenon can be captured theoretically. A Framework for Understanding Effortful Listening (FUEL) represents the consensus reached at the Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy. FUEL builds on the well-established role of cognition in hearing but also adds a motivational dimension. This talk will focus on the role of motivation in listening effort.\n9:45 – 10:15: “Effects of noise exposure and musical training on the neural encoding of sounds. What factors determine our ability to understand speech in noise?“ by Dr Joaquin Valderrama-Valenzuela (National Acoustic Laboratories\, Australian Hearing Hub)\nAbstract: Speech comprehension in the human brain involves both a very sophisticated neural structure that encodes the sounds we hear into patterns of electrical activity\, and cognitive abilities that enable the integration of the received information with previously acquired knowledge. Understanding the effects that external factors like musical training and noise exposure have on our auditory neural architecture\, as well as determining the main cognitive factors influencing speech comprehension\, may help in the design of efficient strategies for prevention and treatment of communication deficits.\n10:15-10:35: Break\n10:35 – 11:05: “The influence of the linguistic experience on words-in-noise recognition scores in adults“ by Associate Professor Josée Lagacé (Faculty of Health Sciences\, University of Ottawa\, Canada)\nAbstract: Non-native listeners typically score lower on speech-in-noise test than native listeners with the same hearing ability\, but not much is known about the influence of knowing more than one language in one’s ability to perceive speech in noise. The goal of this study is to examine the influence of the linguistic experience of normal-hearing adults speaking two or more languages on a words-in-noise test. The results will be presented\, and how audiologists can get a clearer portrait of the ability to hear speech in noise in bilingual populations is discussed.\n11:05-11:30: “The NAL Dynamic Conversations Test and its relation to cognition” by Dr Gitte Keidser (National Acoustic Laboratories\, Australian Hearing Hub)\nAbstract: A new Dynamic Conversations Test developed at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL-DCT) is designed to parallel mental processes involved in higher-level communication. Evaluated in 41 older adults with varied degree of hearing loss\, we found that NAL-DCT was as sensitive to changes in hearing\, signal-to-noise ratio\, and amplification as is a traditional sentence recall test\, with NAL-DCT additionally being sensitive to a cognitive construct tapping into verbal processing resources.\n11:30-12:00: “Reported measures of listening effort“ by Ms Sarah Hughes (South Wales Cochlear Implant Programme\, UK) and Dr Isabelle Boisvert (Department of Linguistic\, Australian Hearing Hub)\nAbstract: Listening to speech in background noise or with a hearing loss is known to be effortful. The effort experienced is assumed to be the result of the increased cognitive load needed to understand speech and the individual’s motivation to listen. This presentation will discuss the consistency between the reported experience of listening effort and current theory\, and how this can inform the development of validated clinical tools.\n12:00-12:15: General discussion – the audience + all presenters.\n\n  \nWho should come:  Hearing\, speech and language researchers and clinicians\, cognitive scientists\, psychologists\, researchers in ageing health and health care professionals.\nNetwork: Learn from one another and see what collaboration opportunities are available.\nRegistration:  Entry is free and open to the public.  Please email louise.dodd@mq.edu.au to register by  Monday  13 February 2017
URL:https://hearinghub.edu.au/event/ahh-seminar-abc-of-communication-auditory-processing-bilingualism-and-cognition/
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SUMMARY:Implementing and disseminating e-mental health interventions
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SUMMARY:RIDBC celebrates International Cochlear Implant Day
DESCRIPTION:Nine-year-old\, Nahkiaya\, is one of many people with hearing loss to benefit from life changing technology – the cochlear implant.\n  \nOn Saturday 25 February\, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) will be celebrating International Cochlear Implant Day\, and the timely biography book launch of SCIC Cochlear Implant Program’s Founding Director\, Professor Bill Gibson AO. \nProfessor Gibson moved from his position as a leading ENT consultant in the UK to become the inaugural Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Sydney in 1983. The following year he performed the very first cochlear implant operation in New South Wales. He never stopped striving to help people with hearing loss in Australia and around the world and by 2005 he had implanted 1000 people\, which represented one third of all the people in Australia with the bionic ear. \nToday\, one in six Australians is deaf or hard of hearing. As technology advances\, there are more possibilities than ever before for Australians with hearing loss to thrive in all aspects of family community and working life. \nTo mark how cochlear implants have transformed the lives of thousands of recipients around the world\, RIDBC is planning a day of celebration and awareness on February 25 and invites families and the local community to come and enjoy a fun-filled day at SCIC Cochlear Implant Program\, a service of RIDBC. \nWe will be offering free hearing assessments on the day and will be bringing together and sharing the success stories from cochlear implant recipients as well as the professionals who work with cochlear implantation. \nThe free event full of fun activities including a sausage sizzle\, petting zoo and giant games for the family will be held at SCIC Cochlear Implant Program Gladesville\, Building 39\, Old Gladesville Hospital\, Punt Road\, Gladesville\, from 11am – 3pm. \nSCIC Cochlear Implant Program\, an RIDBC service\, is Australia’s largest and most comprehensive cochlear implant program\, setting new benchmarks and delivering the highest level of care and support at every stage of the cochlear implant journey. \nThe program provides the highest level of care and support through a seamless\, end-to-end suite of services\, from early intervention and education for children with hearing loss; through to specialist assessment\, surgical liaison and re/habilitation support for people of all ages. \nTo learn more about RIDBC’s SCIC Cochlear Implant Program\, visit ridbc.org.au/scic or call 1300 658 981. \nCopies of Professor Bill Gibson’s biography entitled\, Bill Gibson: Pioneering Bionic Ear Surgeon will be available to purchase on the day at SCIC Cochlear Implant Program\, Gladesville. \nMedia are invited to attend: \nWhat:    International Cochlear Implant Day BBQ and Professor Bill Gibson’s biography book launch \nWhen:   Saturday 25 February\, 2017 \nTime:    10.30am – 11.30am:  Professor Bill Gibson’s biography book launch and media interviews \n11am – 3pm: International Cochlear Implant Day BBQ and family fun day \nWhere:  SCIC Cochlear Implant Program \n              Building 39\, Old Gladesville Hospital \n              Punt road \n              Gladesville NSW 2111 \n  \nFor media enquiries\, please contact: \nMelissa Henningham\, RIDBC Communications Manager on 9872 0334 or 0448 919 723\n \nLinda Berrigan\, RIDBC Director Marketing & Communications on 9872 0304 or 0478 119 066
URL:https://hearinghub.edu.au/event/ridbc-celebrates-international-cochlear-implant-day/
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SUMMARY:NDIS Information Session
DESCRIPTION:This information session is designed to help people with disabilities\, as well as their families and carers\, get ready for the National Disability Insurance Scheme that has commenced in your area on 1 July 2016.  The session will cover topics such as: \n\nWhat is the NDIS and how does it work?\nAm I eligible for the NDIS?\nWhat will happen if I am made eligible?\nWhat kind of support can I access through the NDIS?\n\nThe information session is also a perfect opportunity to bring your questions along and have them answered by experience NDIS staff members. \nLocation: Australian Hearing Hub\, Level 1\, Lecture Theatre\, 16 University Ave\, Macquarie University\nDate: Monday 6 March 2017\nTime: 5.00pm – 6.30pm \nAuslan Interpreter\, Captions and Hearing Loop available \nRSVP by 3 March 2017 to shhh@netspace.net.au with names of those attending.\nPlease mention when booking if there are any specific requirements. \n  \n 
URL:https://hearinghub.edu.au/event/ndis-information-session/
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SUMMARY:AHH Seminar - Developmental Plasticity of the Brain's Connectome
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Title: Developmental Plasticity of the Brain’s Connectome \nSpeaker: Professor Andrej Kral\nDate: Wednesday 8 March\nTime: 4.00pm – 5.30pm\nLocation: Australian Hearing Hub\, Level 1\, Lecture Theatre  \nAgenda:\n4.00pm – 4.05pm – Welcome\n4.05pm – 4.45pm – Presentation\n4.45pm  – 5.00pm – Q & A\n5.00pm – 5.30pm – Networking & Refreshments (cheese & wine) \nAbstract: Postnatal development includes progressive and regressive brain changes\, some of them dependent on experience. Using a natural model of congenital deafness\, the deaf white cat\, our team has focused on effects of sensory experience on the structure and function of the auditory system. We use cochlear implants to test the auditory function in deaf animals and provide deaf animals with a portable signal processor and a cochlear implant to initiate hearing experience at different ages. We could demonstrate deficits in cortical maturation and a delayed and altered cortical synaptic development in congenital deafness. Reduced feature sensitivity\, as we have further shown\, complicates the starting point for learning after restoration of hearing. Chronic electrical stimulation prevented many of the maturational deficits\, provided stimulation was initiated within early sensitive periods. We further studied visual function of the cortical auditory areas in deafness and demonstrated an areal-specific crossmodal reorganization. Although in the reorganized areas the auditory responsive neurons were not significantly reduced in number\, recruitment of neurons for visual tasks likely reduces the auditory computational capacity in the given area. Finally\, corticocortical connections were studied both anatomically and functionally. Based on our layer-specific recordings in primary auditory cortex we previously suggested a corticocortical decoupling in deafness. Using tracer experiments and functional studies we find reduced bottom-up and top-down cortical information transfer in deafness. Such compromised top-down processing in the auditory cortex is likely participating on the closure of sensitive periods. \n  \nBio: Andrej Kral was born in Bratislava\, studied general medicine at the Comenius University (MD 1993\, PhD 1998). His first research position was at the Institute of Pathological Physiology (1992 – 1995). In collaboration with the Mathematical Institute (Prof. V. Majernik) he worked on computer models of neuronal networks. In 1995\, at the Institute of Sensory Physiology\, J.W.Goethe University\, Frankfurt am Main (Head: Prof. R. Klinke) the focus of research moved to cochlear implants. He was appointed associate professor of physiology (“Priv.-Doz.”) at J.W.Goethe University in 2002. In 2004 he was offered a position of a tenured professor of neurophysiology at the Institute of Neurophysiology\, University of Hamburg. Since 2009 he has been Chair and Professor of Auditory Neurophysiology at the Medical University Hannover and the director of research of the ENT clinics. Andrej Kral leads the Dept. of Experimental Otology and the Institute of AudioNeuroTechnology. Since 2004 he has been Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience and Cognition at The University of Texas at Dallas\, USA. The focus of research includes neuroscience of deafness\, cochlear implants\, auditory development\, brain plasticity\, cross-modal reorganization and neuroprosthetic stimulation. The research has been published\, among others\, in New England Journal of Medicine\, Science\, Lancet Neurology\, Nature Neuroscience\, Trends in Neuroscience\, Brain\, Journal of Neuroscience and Cerebral Cortex\, he gave more than 100 invited talks at international conferences and institutes in US and Europe. Together with A.N.Popper and R.R.Fay he edited the volume of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research on Deafness (vol. 47). The lab received funding from German Research Society (DFG)\, Common Scientific Conference Germany\, State of Hamburg and State of Lower Saxony\, NIH\, EU and cochlear implant companies. \nLab website: http://www.neuroprostheses.com \nWho should come:  hearing\, speech and language researchers and clinicians\, cognitive scientists\, psychologists\, researchers in aging health and health care professionals.\nNetwork: Learn from one another and see what collaboration opportunities are available.\nRegistration:  Entry is free and open to the public. Please register by Monday 6 March 2017 to louise.dodd@mq.edu.au
URL:https://hearinghub.edu.au/event/ahh-seminar-developmental-plasticity-of-the-brains-connectome/
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