EIGHTH SYMPOSIUM ON COCHLEAR IMPLANTS IN CHILDREN

本申请书要求资助将于2001年2月28日至3月3日在加州环球影城希尔顿环球酒店举行的第八届儿童人工耳蜗研讨会。这一系列会议大约每两年举行一次，汇集了科学家、临床医生、教育工作者和技术专家，他们参与了许多界定儿童人工耳蜗植入的领域。这个领域现在已经成熟，许多儿童已经使用多通道人工耳蜗超过10年。结果应该可用来描述年轻的植入儿童使用先进的技术信号处理策略的表现。由House Ear Institute和House Ear Clinic主办的第八届研讨会将重点关注以下不同领域的新兴研究和技术：候选资格，外科手术，言语感知和产生，语言和认知发展，设备的装配/编程，可塑性和康复/教育。特邀讲者将提供电生理学、可塑性、助听器装配、婴儿语言感知/产生和语音记忆等领域的最新综述和新观点。一群杰出的植入研究人员聚集在一起，展示他们的最新成果。论文征集形式将使参与者能够以口头或海报形式展示他们的发现。将安排小组讨论和技术更新。这次研讨会的会议记录将作为科学/医学杂志的增刊出版。

This application requests funding to support in part the Eighth Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children, to be held at the Universal City Hilton in Universal City, California, from February 28 to March 3, 2001. This series of conferences, scheduled approximately every two years, brings together scientists, clinicians, educators, and technical specialists involved in the many areas that define pediatric cochlear implantation. The field has now matured such that many children have been using multichannel cochlear implants for over 10 years. Results should be available to describe performance of young implanted children using technologically advanced signal processing strategies. Sponsored by the House Ear Institute and House Ear Clinic, the eighth symposium will focus on emerging research and technology in the following diverse areas: candidacy, surgery, speech perception and production, language and cognitive development, fitting/programming of devices, plasticity, and rehabilitation/education. Special invited speakers will be asked to provide current reviews and new perspectives in such areas as electrophysiology, plasticity, hearing aid fitting, infant speech perception/production, and phonological memory. A faculty of prominent implant researchers has been assembled to present their latest results. A Call-for-Papers format will enable participants to present their findings in oral or poster presentations. Panel discussions will be scheduled as will technical updates. The proceedings of this symposium will be published as a supplement to a scientific/medical journal.