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Highlighted Events
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Arthur
Boothroyd
State of the Science of Adult Aural Rehabilitation
Dr. Boothroyd
has published extensively on the effects of hearing loss
on development, with special emphasis on speech
perception, its assessment, and its enhancement with
hearing aids, cochlear implants, and tactile aids.
More recently, he has published on room acoustics and
its effects on speech reception and perception. He
is currently part of the RERC-HE team, studying and
developing tools for the rehabilitation of children and
adults with hearing loss. He is co-principal
investigator on an NIH-funded study of auditory
development and its assessment in children whose hearing
loss is identified at an early age, at the House Ear
Institute. In addition, Dr. Boothroyd has consulted on
the design and application of FM and sound-field
amplification systems for Phonic Ear, Inc. He
teaches courses on aural rehabilitation at San Diego
State University, and he is a member of the Advisory
Boards of the CCHAT Center in San Diego and the Auditory
Oral School of New York in Brooklyn.
Introductory Speaker, Dr. John Brabyn
Dual Sensory Loss
John
Brabyn received his Bachelors and PhD degrees in
electrical engineering at the University of Canterbury,
New Zealand. He is currently at the Smith
Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco,
where he has coordinated a wide range of research and
development projects on rehabilitation technology and
methods for blind, visually impaired and deaf-blind
persons as Director of the NIDRR-funded Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center on Blindness and Low Vision.
He has also conducted research projects on visual
impairment under grants from the National Eye Institute
and other agencies.
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