12th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children

描述(由申请人提供)：第十二届儿童人工耳蜗研讨会将提供传播和分享知识的机会，这些知识与其他列出的会议相比是独一无二的。研讨会将明确聚焦于儿科人工耳蜗术，预计北美地区所有涉及儿科人工耳蜗术研究、开发和临床护理的学科都将出席。该计划将强调被确定为该领域具有高度兴趣和相关性的领域。被邀请的演讲者将介绍有关幼儿植入、儿童双侧植入和儿童神经保护/残留听力的主题。这些主题将在小组讨论和免费纸张和海报演示中进一步审议。此次研讨会的13位受邀演讲者将为美国的儿科人工耳蜗领域带来新的想法，希望激发听力学、言语/语言病理学、外科/医学、教育、工程学和行业代表等专业人士的创新思维。第二个目标将是鼓励更深入的审议，不仅是针对这次研讨会的关键问题，而且是关于儿科人工耳蜗术和相关领域的全方位的主题。口头陈述和海报会议将展示当前的研究，涉及非常广泛的主题，包括内科/外科、教育、听觉康复、言语和语言发展、早期干预的影响、临床生存能力和患者接触、听神经科学、工程学和相关药理学。三个重点领域(幼儿植入、双侧植入和残留听力/神经保护)是根据当前文献中突出关注的问题和对儿科人工耳蜗术领域选定的领导者的调查而选择的。另一位受邀演讲者将获得资助，以解决医学遗传学的最新进展。他的演讲将不会包括在上午的特邀演讲环节，但将出现在下午专门讨论遗传学的环节中。这堂课将在周四进行，因为它符合幼儿诊断的主题。这些主题被确定为具有无可争议的临床重要性的领域。提供来自18名学生的数据的机会增加，将得到本提案所要求的提供旅行和住宿的资金的帮助。学生和特邀演讲者可免收会议费用。一位美国演讲者将在新西兰休假后乘飞机前来参加这次研讨会(Christine Yoshinaga-Itano博士)，她也将得到申请的出国旅行资金的帮助。西雅图提供了一个首选的会场，机场和铁路很容易到达来自美国的代表。本次研讨会的主要目标将是提供一个环境，讨论当前对儿科人群中人工耳蜗植入的复杂问题的研究，以便为未来的研究、教育、临床护理和技术发展提供方向。范围广泛的基础科学家和临床医生将为计划中的提交演讲和海报会议做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 12th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children will offer opportunities for the dissemination and sharing of knowledge that are unique when compared to the other meetings listed. The symposia will offer a clear focus on pediatric cochlear implants with significant attendance expected by North Americans from all disciplines involved with pediatric cochlear implant research, development, and clinical care. The program will emphasize areas identified as being of high interest and relevance in the field. The invited speakers will introduce topics in implantation of the very young child, bilateral implantation in children, and neural preservation/residual hearing in children. These topics which will be further deliberated in panels and free paper and poster presentations. The thirteen invited speakers chosen for this symposium will bring fresh ideas into the pediatric cochlear implant arena in the United States in the hope of stimulating innovative thinking by professionals in audiology, speech/language pathology, surgery/medicine, education, engineering and from industry representatives. A second aim will be to encourage deeper deliberation not only on key issues targeted in this symposium but on topics in the full spectrum of pediatric cochlear implantation and related areas. Oral presentations and poster sessions will present current research over a very broad range of topics including medicine/surgery, education, aural habilitation, speech and language development, the impact of early intervention, clinical viability and patient access, auditory neuroscience, engineering, and pertinent pharmacology. The three areas of emphasis (implantation in the very young child, bilateral implantation, and residual hearing/neural preservation) were chosen based on issues receiving prominent attention in the current literature and based upon a survey of selected leaders in the field of pediatric cochlear implantation. One additional invited speaker will be funded to address recent advances in medical genetics. His lecture will not be included in the morning invited speaker sessions but will be featured in an afternoon session devoted to genetics. This lecture will be done on Thursday since it fits in the theme of the diagnosis of very young children. These topics were determined to be areas of undisputed clinical importance. Increased opportunities for presenting data from eighteen students will be aided by the funds requested in this proposal to provide travel and lodging. Meeting fees will be waived for students and invited speakers. One American speaker, who will be flown in from her sabbatical in New Zealand for this symposium (Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Ph.D.), will also be aided by the requested funds for foreign travel. Seattle offers a preferred venue with easy airport and rail access to delegates from the United States. The principle goal of this symposium will be to provide an environment to discuss current research on the complex issues specific to cochlear implants in the pediatric population in order to provide direction for future research, education, clinical care, and technological development. A wide range of basic scientists and clinicians will contribute to planned sessions of submitted talks and poster sessions.