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Special Educators
Faculty members of the Moog Center for Deaf Education in St. Louis
will answer your educational questions. The distinguished panel is comprised of speech pathologists, teachers of the deaf, educational audiologists and mainstream consultants. Faculty members will entertain questions relating to special education issues and mainstreaming of children.
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Ask the Auditory-Verbal
Therapist
Linda Daniel is the
aural rehabilitation specialist on the cochlear implant
team at Dallas Otolaryngology Associates. In addition to
being a Licensed Audiologist, she has an additional
Master's degree in Communication Disorders. She is a
Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist and owner/director
of HEAR In Dallas, a private practice in aural
rehabilitation and Auditory-Verbal therapy. Ms. Daniel
will answer your questions related to speech and language therapy for deaf and hard of hearing children. |
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Ask the Audiologist and Technology Expert
Ira Springer, AuD., FAAA is an audiologist in private practice in New York. He has dispensed hearing aids and assistive devices for 36 years. He is a member of the American Academy of Audiology, the Academy of Dispensing Audiologists, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association as well as other professional associations. He is also the co-founder of the Hearing Care Group. Ira expects to receive his professional doctorate in audiology in May 2001. He welcomes your questions about hearing aids and assistive technology. |
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the Cochlear Implant Expert
Dr. Pat Chute is an
Associate Professor at Mercy College in New York. She is
the Coordinator of Audiology, the Director of Research
and a member of the Board of Directors of the Children's
Hearing Institute
an organization that raises money to support research
related to hearing and its disorders. She was formerly
the director of the Cochlear Implant Center at Lenox
Hill Hospital and Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat
Hospital, both in New York. She has been active in the
implant field since 1979 and has written over 40
publications including "Children
with Cochlear Implants in Educational Settings."
Dr. Chute will be happy to answer questions related to
cochlear implants, implantable hearing aids and
rehabilitation for children and adults.
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Ask the
Parent Support Expert
Lisa Simmons, Parent Support Expert.
Among her many credentials, Lisa Simmons is a licensed teacher and certified Education Advocate. She has 15 years of experience in family advocacy. Over the last decade, Lisa has lectured extensively on disability issues in public arenas and private consultations. She is the founder of
The Ideal Lives Project and its related website, IdealLives.com, a community for parents, teachers and professionals who care about individuals with disabilities. Lisa's recent publication is an e-book entitled,
"The Internet Resource Guide for Parents & Disability Professionals." Lisa welcomes your questions related to advocacy, inclusion and special needs parenting. |
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Ask Neil
Bauman Coping Skills and Tinnitus Expert.
Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
is an expert in hearing loss coping skills, ototoxic
drugs and tinnitus. He was born with a severe loss and
became an excellent speechreader at an early age. Neil
knows and practices numerous ways to cope with being
hard of hearing in a hearing world. He has the unusual
distinction of having a hearing loss as well as being
the son of a hard of hearing parent, the brother of a
hard of hearing sibling and the parent of a hard of
hearing child. For the past decade, he has been
researching, writing, teaching and speaking on various
hard of hearing issues. Neil writes a regular column
called “You Were Asking…” for the SayWhat Club’s
On-line Voices magazine. He is also the author of seven
books on hearing loss. His books, “Grieving For Your
Hearing Loss” and “When Your Ears Ring--Cope With
Your Tinnitus--Here’s How” have helped many. He is
just completing a major book, “Ototoxic Drugs
Exposed” that documents the many drugs and chemicals
that damage our ears. Visit Neil's informative website
at http://www.hearinglosshelp.com. |
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