Local Organising Group

Daniel Holzinger – Congress President

Johannes Hofer - Host 
Daiva Müllegger-Trečiokaite - Parent and Management 
Alexandra Mayer-Weinreich - Management 

Magdalena Dall - Management 

Sabine Windisch - Deaf Presenter

Doris Binder - Early Interventionist 

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.

Michelle Berke

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

Doris Binder

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

Natasha Cloete

Deaf Aotearoa Child and Youth Manager also member of Deaf Leadership International Alliance; New Zealand

Janet DesGeorges

Executive Director, Hands & Voices Headquarters US; GPODHH co-founder

Johannes Fellinger

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

Bridget Ferguson

General Manager:Services, Deaf Aotearoa, New Zealand; DLIA

Anita Grover

Chief Executive, Auditory Verbal UK, London, UK; DLIA

Johannes Hofer

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

Karen Hopkins

Executive Director/CEO, The Children’s Center for Communication Beverly School for the Deaf, Massachusetts US; DLIA

Nina Jakhelln Laugen

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

Josip Ladic

Parent, Croatia

Jolanta McCall

Independent Special Education Consultant, London, UK

Melissa McCarthy

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

Sheila Moodie

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

Guita Movallali

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

Robert Nutt

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

Bola Olusanya

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

Paula Pittman

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

Ann Porter

Co-Chair, GPODHH; Co-Founder and CEO, Aussie Deaf Kids, Australia

Snigdha Sarkar

President, Anwesha Kolkata, West Bengal, India; Co-Chair GPODHH

Claudine Storbeck

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

Arlene Stredler-Brown

University of Colorado, Boulder, US

Amy Szarkowski

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

Alys Young

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

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