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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS*

SUNDAY, MARCH 24
Afternoon Campus tours available for those interested meet in hotel lobby; exact time TBA
5:30 p.m. Welcome reception Sheraton Hotel
MONDAY, MARCH 25
8:30 a.m. Welcome/Overview of Hearing Issues
--Dr. Bruce Gantz		 Alumni Education and Conference Room: 21271 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UIHC
8:45-10 a.m. Early Identification of Hearing Loss
Genetic Testing--Dr. Richard Smith
Screening of Newborns--Dr. Lenore Holte
 21271 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UIHC
10-10:30 a.m. Move to Speech & Hearing Center for break
10:30 a.m.-noon

Improving Hearing Aids
Hearing Aid Assessment and Research
Experience the Anechoic Chamber
Digital Signal Processing
--Drs. Ruth Bentler and Chris Turner

233 Speech & Hearing Center and Anechoic Chamber
noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch Atrium Dining Room, UIHC
1:30-3:15 p.m. Cochlear Aids: First Man-made Technology to Successfully Integrate with the Brain:
Intro to Cochlear Implants Dr. Bruce Gantz
Speech and language development in children with cochlear implants Dr. J. Bruce Tomblin
Bilateral implants for adults and short electrode implants Dr. Bruce Gantz
Basic science: treatment of the auditory nerve and preventing neurosensory hearing loss Dr. Steve Green
Music as an aural rehabilitation tool Dr. Kate Gfeller
21271 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UIHC
3:15-3:30 p.m. Break
3:30-4 p.m. Opportunity to meet patients using cochlear aids 21271 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UIHC
4-4:30 Cochlear Aids, continued:
New Speech Coding Strategies Dr. Jay Rubinstein
Physiology of electrical stimulation: basic science and clinical applications Dr. Paul Abbas
21271 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UIHC
4:45-5:15 p.m.

Conquering Tinnitus: That Annoying Ringing in the Ears
--Dr. Jay Rubinstein

 21271 Pomerantz Family Pavilion, UIHC
7 p.m. Dinner in Iowa City
TUESDAY, MARCH 26
8:30-8:45 a.m. Welcome/Overview of Language, Speech and Voice Issues
--Dr. Richard Hurtig		 203 Speech & Hearing Center
8:45-10:30 a.m. Treating Voice and Speech Disorders
Medical and Behavioral Therapy offered by the Voice Clinic and Speech Pathology Vocology Group
--Drs. Michael Karnell and Eileen Finnegan
 203 Speech & Hearing Center
10:30-11 a.m. Break Speech & Hearing Center
11 a.m.-noon

Stuttering: Helping both Children and Adults
--Dr. Tricia Zebrowski

 203 Speech & Hearing Center
noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch Speech & Hearing Center
1:30-2:30 p.m. Developmental Language Disorders and Delays
Child Language Resource Center; autism, specific-language impairment (SLI) and other developmental language disorders and delays; education for children with language difficulties
--Dr. J. Bruce Tomblin		 203 Speech & Hearing Center
2:30-3:15 p.m. Laboratory Tour
Computerized assistive communication devices--Dr. Richard Hurtig
3:15-4:15 p.m. Innovative Voice Technologies and Research
Vocal Fold Repair--Dr. Ingo Titze		 318 Speech & Hearing Center
4:15-4:30 p.m. Break  
4:30-5 p.m.

"The Lousy Instrument" and the Pavarobotti
Human and Computerized Singing

 Location--TBD

* Agenda subject to final confirmation