Congress-Organisation

Local Organising Committee
Daniel Holzinger – Congress President
Johannes Fellinger – Host
Alexandra Pichler – Congress Secretary
Alexandra Mayer-Weinreich – Congress Management
Doris Binder – Early Intervention
Monika Bernauer – Audiology
Daiva Trečiokaite Müllegger – Parent Representative
Sabine Windisch - Deaf Parent Representative
Elisabeth Tragler - Parent Representative
Doris Tröbinger – Secretary

Scientific Program Committee
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano – Scientific Chair, USA, Colorado,
Arlene Stredler-Brown – Early Intervention, USA, Colorado,
Gwen Carr – Early Intervention, UK,
Leeanne Seaver – International Parent Representative, USA, Colorado,
Janet DesGeorges – International Parent Representative, USA, Colorado,
Pauline Walker – International Parent Representative, Northern Ireland,
Barry Wright – Child Psychiatry, UK,
Maria Wisnet – Deaf Education, Germany,
Manfred Hintermair – Deaf Education, Germany,
Mary Pat Moeller – Speech Language Pathology, USA, Nebraska,
Johannes Fellinger – Neurology/Psychiatry, Austria,
Daniel Holzinger – Clinical Linguistics, Austria

Advisory Board
Gerd Rasp, Austrian Society for Otorhinolaryngology
Patrick Zorowka, German Society for Audiology
Thomas Keintzel, Head of Department of ENT, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen
Annette Leonhardt, Chair for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

This conference is brought to you by the Institute of Neurology and of Senses and Languages, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz, and the following partners:

• Marion Downs Hearing Center (University of Colorado Hospital),
• University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences;
• University of Colorado at Denver, Medical Center;
• Colorado Home Intervention Program; Colorado Families for Hands & Voices; Hands & Voices National;
• Global Coalition of Parents of Deaf Children
• The England Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
• UCL Ear Institute

Patronage
Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer
Deputy-Governor Josef Ackerl