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.

 

Beth Benedict

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

 

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

 

Bianca Birdsey

THRIVE Parent Support and Advocacy Group; Director of Global Family Support Initiatives, South Africa; GPODHH

 

Natasha Cloete

First Signs Team Leader, New Zealand; DLIA

 

Jodee Crace

SKI-Hi Deaf Mentor Program; Adjunct Faculty Infant Toddler and Families, Gallaudet University, US; DLIA

 

Kathryn Crowe

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iceland, Iceland; Adjunct Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University, Australia

 

Janet DesGeorges

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

 

Johannes Fellinger

Head of the 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

 

Barbara Gängler

Clinical Linguist and CEO German Cochlear Implant Society, Germany

 

Anita Grover

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

 

Johannes Hofer

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

 

Sonya Myhre Holten

Sign Language Planner/Senior Adviser at the Language Council of Norway, Norway; DLIA

 

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

 

Lucas Magongwa

Lecturer, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; DLIA

 

Jolanta McCall

Independent Special Education Consultant, London, UK

 

Melissa McCarthy

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

 

Mary Pat Moeller

Scientist Emerita, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, US; DLIA

 

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

 

Stephanie Olson

Headquarters Family Consultant, Children’s Hospital Colorado, 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

 

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

 

Karen Putz

Adjunct Instructor, Rochester Institute of Technology US; founder of The Parent Circle, US

 

Katherine Rogers

Social Research with Deaf people (SORD); University of Manchester, UK; DLIA

 

Jane Russell

Parent Researcher, University of Manchester, UK; GPODHH 

 

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

 

Nanette Thompson

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

 

Sabine Windisch

Social worker and Parent Peer, Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St John of God, Linz, Austria; DLIA

 

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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