Topics
- Epidemiology of HL in adults
- Prevalence of hearing loss and auditory dysfunction
- Basic research
- Auditory neuroscience
- Anatomy and physiology of the auditory system
- Acoustics and psychoacoustics
- Speech perception: psychophysical and physiological issues
- Cognition, language, neural plasticity
- Neuroscientific advances: relevance to clinical assessment and intervention
- Modeling of the ear and hearing
- Signal processing
- Aging factors and degenerative neurologic disorders
- Behavioural assessment
- Physiologic assessment
- Aetiological assessment
- Towards early identification of HL in adults
- Screening methods and techniques
- Emerging technologies for adult screening
- Risk factors influencing auditory dysfunction in adults
- Susceptibility to hearing loss and prevention
- Changes in speech, language and cognitive abilities associated with HL and aging
- Communicative, psychological, social, linguistic, and cultural factors related to auditory dysfunction
- Assessment and treatment of speech and communication disorders
- Hearing & balance problems
- Intervention strategies
- Development of hearing devices and instrumentation
- Development of Hearing Aids
- Hearing Aids fitting strategies
- Hearing Assistance Technologies
- Issues on education and training
- Pilot trials of early identification
- Regulations and recommendations
