2010 Conference Speakers
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Josephine Marriage is clinical director of Chear, an independent hearing centre for assessment and hearing aid evaluation in children and adults. Her main research interest is in assessing and improving speech perception for hearing-impaired children through hearing aids. This research was undertaken in collaboration Professor Brian Moore and team in Cambridge and funded by Deafness Research-UK.
Other research studies were on fitting protocols for multi-band compression hearing aids in adult and the use of wide-dynamic range compression amplification for children with severe and profound extents of hearing loss and development of a protocol for the diagnosis of dead regions, or inner hair cell (IHC) loss in the cochlea, using evoked potentials and aided thresholds. She is also currently Course Director for training of audiologists at the UCL Ear Institute in London.
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Dr Steve Powers is a Senior Lecturer in Special Education at the University of Birmingham where his main teaching responsibility is training teachers of deaf children. Previously he spent fifteen years teaching deaf children in special schools and mainstream schools in England. He has published widely on the inclusion of deaf children and their educational achievements and led research into the achievements of deaf children (DFEE, 1998), good practice in deaf education (RNID, 1999), and high achieving deaf pupils (RNID, 2006). |
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Gwen Carr is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf who is Deputy Director of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme and formerly NDCS Deputy Chief Executive. Her research interests include:
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