Christie Yoshinaga-Itano
University of Colorado, US
Leeanne Seaver
Global Coalition of Parents, US
Daniel Holzinger
Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language, AT
Elaine Gale
Hunter College CUNY, US
Gwen Carr
Independent Consultant
UCL Ear Institute London, UK
Trudy Smith
Teacher of the Deaf, AUS
Daniel Holzinger – Congress President
Johannes Fellinger – Host
Lindita Bezhani
Alexandra Mayer-Weinreich
Laura Habermaier
Sabine Windisch
Magdalena Dall
Daiva Müllegger-Trečiokaite
Herta Winter
Doris Binder
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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