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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:32:21 GMT From: BethTAP To: Multiple recipients of list DEAF-L Subject: Conference announcement

Please mark your calendar now for a conference to be held May 8 and 9 at Gallaudet:

WIRELESS TELEPHONES AND HEARING AIDS: New Challenges for Audiology

This will be the first opportunity to get a comprehensive update on this issue since the Summit conference of January, 1996.

This is the Fifth Annual Robert Monzon Memorial Conference, sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers at the Lexington Center and Gallaudet University, in association with The League for the Hard of Hearing.

This e-mail includes the full conference program, including speakers and registration information. Please feel free to share this with other interested people.

We hope to see you there.

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The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers at the Lexington Center and Gallaudet University, in association with The League for the Hard of Hearing, are pleased to present a two-day conference

WIRELESS TELEPHONES AND HEARING AIDS: New Challenges for Audiology

on May 8-9, 1997 at the Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Center in Washington, D.C.

This is the Fifth Annual Robert Monzon Memorial Conference, featuring eminent audiologists, consumers and representatives from the hearing aid and wireless telecommunication industries.

Are you ready for the 21st Century? Come learn about advances in wireless telecommunications and the opportunities and challenges they offer to hearing aid users and their audiologists. Topics include:

  • Trends in wireless phones and personal communication
  • Hearing aid compatibility and assistive devices
  • Electro-magnetic interference of certain telephones and hearing aids
  • Research and standards activity directed at this problem
  • Progress toward solutions

    • PROGRAM: Thursday, May 8

    8:00 Registration

    9:00 Welcome, Katherine Seelman, Director, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

    9:10 Robert Monzon Memorial Dedication, Jane Madell, Director of Communicative Disorders, Long Island College Hospital

    Part I. Wireless Telephones and Hearing Aids: It Takes Two to Tango

    9:20 Overview, Mark Ross

    10:00 Types of Wireless Telephone Systems and Implications, Judy Harkins

    10:40 Break

    11:00 Assistive Technology and Hearing Aid Compatibility in Wireless Telephones, Larry Eng

    11:40 Questions and Answers

    12:00 Lunch (Dining Area)

    Part II. Research and Standards Activities on Digital Wireless Telephone Interference with Hearing Aids

    1:00 Wireless Telephone Interference: Searching for Realistic Measurement Methods, Harry Teder

    1:30 Field Studies of Interference from Digital Wireless Telephones, Harry Levitt

    2:00 Laboratory Research at the Food and Drug Administration, Marlene Skopec

    2:30 Research at the Center for the Study of Wireless Electromagnetic Compatibility, Robert Schlegel

    3:00 Break

    3:20 Standards: Working Toward a Middle Ground, Stephen Berger

    4:00 Questions and Answers

    5:00 Closing Remarks

    7:00 Banquet (Ballroom) Invited Speaker: Michele Farquhar, Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission

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    Friday, May 9

    Part III. Progress on Solutions

    9:00 Introduction, Michael Buas

    9:15 The Australian Experience, Denis Byrne

    10:00 R&D Progress and Solutions in Wireless Telephones Panelists from Wireless Telephone Manufacturing Companies

    10:50 Break

    11:10 R&D Progress and Solutions in Hearing Aids Panelists from Hearing Aid Manufacturing Companies

    12:00 Lunch (Dining Area)

    1:00 Providing Accessible Wireless Service Panelists from Wireless Telephone Service Companies

    1:50 Consumer Perspectives, Brenda Battat, Mark Ross, Donna Sorkin

    2:40 Break

    3:00 Policy Issues Panel of Policy Experts

    3:50 Issues for Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers, Barry Freeman, Holly Kaplan

    4:40 Open Discussion

    5:00 Closing Remarks, Harry Levitt

    Real-time captioning provided at all sessions. Assistive listening devices and sign language interpreters available. ASHA and AAA CEUs applied for.

    Registration fee includes continental breakfasts, buffet lunches, refreshments and handout materials. Full Conference - $175 One Day Only - $100 Student Rate - $50 per day Hard of Hearing/Deaf Consumers - $50 per day

    Accessible guest rooms available at the Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Center.

    For registration/information contact: University Conference Management Gallaudet University 800 Florida Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002-3695 TTY/V 202-651-6060/6053 FAX 202-651-6074/6038 E-mail: conference@gallua.gallaudet.edu

    This Conference Series was made possible by the generous financial support of: Argosy Electronics Oticon Philips Hearing Instruments ReSound Corporation Siemens Hearing Instruments Starkey Labs 3M Hearing Health and The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), U.S. Dept. Of Ed. Grants #H133E30015, #H133E50002 ```

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