Executive Group

Local Organising Group

 

Holzinger Daniel – Congress President
Fellinger Johannes – Host
Bezhani Lindita – Congress Secretary
Mayer-Weinreich Alexandra
Windisch Sabine
Eder Alexandra
Müllegger-Trečiokaite Daiva

Binder Doris

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.

 

Michele Berke

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

 

Nina Jakhelln Laugen

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

 

Kathryn Crowe

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iceland, Iceland

Adjunct Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia

 

Stephanie Olson

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

 

Jane Russell

UK GPODHH representative / Parent Researcher, University of Manchester, UK

 

Zeffi Poulakis

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, Australia

 

Ann Porter

Parent and Vice Chair, GPODHH

Founder and CEO, Aussiedeafkids, Australia

 

Sheila Moodie

Associate Professor, Western University School of Communication Sciences and Disorders,

The National Centre for Audiology, London, Ontario, Canada

 

Bridget Ferguson

General Manager:Services, Deaf Aotearoa, New Zealand

 

Bola Olusanya,

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

 

Beth Benedict

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

 

Janet DesGeorges

Executive Director, Hands and Voices Headquarters US

Mother of deaf daughter

 

Mary Pat Moeller

Scientist Emeritus, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, US

 

Robert Nutt

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

 

Snigdha Sarkar

President, Anwesha Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Parent and GPODHH member

 

Teresa McDonnell

Co-Founder, Sharing the Journey, Dublin, Ireland

Parent and GPODHH member

 

Daiva Mullegger

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

 

Alexandra Eder

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

 

Barbara Gängler

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

 

Paula Pittman

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

 

Melissa McCarthy

Early Childhood Teacher / Teacher of the Deaf

PhD candidate, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

 

Anita Grover

Chief Executive, Auditory Verbal UK, London, UK

 

Jolanta McCall

Chief Executive and Principal, Seashell Trust, Manchester, UK

 

Claudine Storbeck

Professor and Director, Centre for Deaf Studies

Director, HI-HOPES, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA

 

Lucas Magongwa

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

 

Guita Movallali

Associate Professor and Head of deaf / HoH Research Centre, USWR University

Founder of Faranak Clinic for deaf children, Tehran, Iran

 

Alys Young

Professor of Social Work Education and Research

Director of SORD (Social Research with Deaf People) Group, University of Manchester, UK

 

Monika Bernauer

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

 

Nanette Thompson

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

 

Amy Szarkowski

Psychologist, Boston Children’s Hospital and Institute for Community Inclusion

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, US

 

Karen Putz

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

 

Johannes Fellinger

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

 

Doris Binder

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

 

Evelien Dirks

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

Royal Dutch Kentalis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Sabine Windisch

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

 

Suzanne Harris

Team Leader, Queensland Hearing Loss Family Support Service, Queensland, Australia

 

 

 

 

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