2023 Program

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Day ONE - Friday 3 March

Day ONE – Friday 3 March 2023

0730 Registration Open | Mezzanine Level
OPENING PLENARY SESSION | Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Prof. Greg Leigh
0825 – 0830 Welcome to Country – Alison Overeem
0830 – 0900 Delegate Welcome & Housekeeping
Official Opening
0900 – 1000 Keynote Address
Looking back & Building the Future
Prof. Christine Yoshinaga-ItanoSponsored by NextSense
1000 – 1030 MORNING TEA | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine
CONCURRENT SESSION ONE
  EARLY INTERVENTION OUTCOMES
Ballroom Two
Session Chair: Trudy Smith		 NON-TARGET HEARING LOSS CONDITIONS (I): DO THEY MATTER?
Ballroom Three
Session Chair: Rachael Beswick
1030 – 1050 The early developmental profiles of deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their associated developmental profiles
Dr Natalie Zehnwirth
 Emotional behavioural outcomes of children with unilateral and mild bilateral hearing loss
Dr Jun Jean Ong
1055 – 1115 A community study of expressive vocabulary in 2-year-old children with early detected hearing loss
Dr Peter Carew		 Mild permanent hearing losses identified as a result of newborn hearing screening in Queensland
Kelly Nicholls
1120 – 1140 Bilateral simultaneous, bilateral sequential and unilateral cochlear implantation: Prevalence and relationships with receptive language outcomes in 34 matched triads
Dr Peter Carew
 Highlighting key outcomes of early diagnosis and intervention for children with unilateral hearing loss – Matching research with clinical outcomes
Dr Pia Watkins
1145 – 1205 Using the LENA programme to enhance Ministry of Education adviser on deaf children practice supporting families and whānau with children who are D/HH aged 0-3 in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Rebekah Zwies		 Mild Matters: Randomised controlled trial of amplification for infants with bilateral mild hearing loss
A/Prof Valerie Sung
1210 – 1230 Family support services for families of deaf/ hard of hearing children: Future directions
Dr Jan Andren
 Language and quality of life outcomes for children with early-detected mild bilateral and unilateral hearing loss
Dr Peter Carew
1230 – 1330 LUNCH | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine
CONCURRENT SESSION TWO
  LESSONS LEARNT FROM COVID-19
Ballroom Two
Session Chair: Ann Porter
 NON-TARGET HEARING LOSS CONDITIONS (II): DO THEY MATTER?
Ballroom Three
Session Chair: Bianca Liersch
1330 – 1350 Accessing hearing-health services for deaf and hard-of-hearing children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Parent and child perspectives
Dr Ahmed Mardinli
 Conductive Hearing Loss within Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programs: Prevalence, Hearing Profile, Occasions of Service and Risk Factors
Alison Collins
1355 – 1415 Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wellbeing of deaf and hard of hearing children and their parents
Alanna Gillespie		 Unpacking the management of transient conductive hearing loss detected through newborn hearing screening
Jennifer Eakin, Ms Stephanie Keszegi
1415 – 1435 Impact of COVID-19 on paediatric hearing device use: A quantitative study
Stephanie Thai		 What is appropriate management for transient conductive hearing loss identified via a screening program?
Mr Andrew Geyl
1435 – 1455 Amplification for young Australians – What does Hearing Australia’s demographic data tell us about the impact of the pandemic?
Ms Alison King		 Unilateral ANSD, more common than we thought
Ms Florencia Montes, Dr Kirsty Gardner-Berry
1455 – 1520 AFTERNOON TEA | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine
PLENARY SESSION | Ballroom 2 & 3
UNHS in Australasia: milestones, achievements, and future opportunities
1520 – 1605 PANEL
Newborn Hearing Screening in Australia and New Zealand: Looking Back and Building the Future
Facilitated by: Zeffie Poulakis
Panel Presenters: Michelle Chacksfield, Lauren McHugh, Jasmine Plimmer and Bianca Liersch
1605 – 1700 Celebrating success: Milestones in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening
Prof. Greg Leigh and Prof. Christine Yoshinaga Itano with video presentations by previous ANHSC Keynote Speakers (Prof. Alys Young, Prof Karl White, Prof. Adrian Davis, and Ms Gwen Carr)
1700 – 1900 Cocktail Function | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine

Day TWO - Saturday 4 March

Day TWO – Saturday 4 March 2023

0800 Registration Open | Mezzanine Level
PLENARY SESSION | Ballroom 2 & 3
Chair Michelle Chacksfield
0820 – 0830 Welcome to Day Two

Sponsor Address – Ravin Nand, General Manager, Cochlear Australia and New Zealand
0830 – 1015 Presentation
Screening beyond the newborn period: update on progress toward a consensus
Presenters: Rachael Beswick, Kirsty Gardner-Berry, Zeffie Poulakis, Greg Leigh.
1015 – 1045 MORNING TEA | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine
CONCURRENT SESSION THREE
  MEDICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS
Ballroom Two
Session Chair: Valerie Sung
 DETECTION OF HEARING LOSS BEYOND THE NEWBORN PERIOD
Ballroom Three
Session Chair: Rachael Beswick
1045 – 1105 GJB2 (connexin 26) variants in a clinical cohort of children with hearing loss in Queensland
Dr Karen Liddle
 Hearing surveillance for children with risk factors: Who receives a postnatal hearing loss diagnosis, and when?
Dr Rachel Beswick
1110 – 1130 Tasmanian Health Service – Paediatric hearing loss multidisciplinary clinic: 18 months on
Dr Victoria Carter, Miss Michelle Chacksfield		 Detecting hearing loss during childhood: Exploring the benefits of a community partnership approach
Mikaela Dammers
1135 – 1155 Hearing screening for congenital CytoMegaloVirus – A feasibility and acceptability study of targeted salivary CMV screening for the early diagnosis of CMV associated hearing loss
A/Prof Valerie Sung		 New recommendations for checking ear health and hearing in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, post-newborn hearing screening
Sam Harkus
1200 – 1220 A multi-pronged approach to understanding congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) and its impact in New Zealand
Dr Holly Teagle
 Increasing access to ear and hearing health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families through the Hearing Assessment Program Early Ears (HAPEE)
Dr Traci Flynn
1225 – 1245   Diagnostic audiology for all first nations infants
Rachael Hyder, Shantelle Lucas-Baillie
1245 – 1345 LUNCH | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine
CONCURRENT SESSION FOUR
  GENOMIC TESTING WORKSHOP
Ballroom One
 NEW RESEARCH, INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY
Ballroom Two
Session Chair: Zeffie Poulakis		 CONSUMER AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND PERSPECTIVES
Ballroom Three
Session Chair: Lauren McHugh
1345 – 1405 Genomic Testing Workshop

Facilitated by Dr Fran Maher and the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance

Co-facilitated by Dr Lilian Downie & A/Prof Valerie Sung

  

Precision diagnosis for paediatric hearing loss research protocol
Dr Karen Liddle

 The experiences of families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds along the hearing screening and diagnostic pathway: Parents’ and service providers’ perspectives
Hayley Wong
1410 – 1430 Beyond the excel spreadsheet! Re-imagining data for newborn hearing screening programs
Dr Rachael Beswick		 Centering the child in a family-centred practice. Flexible models of clinical care to facilitate agency and independence in children with hearing loss
Katie Neal
1435 – 1455 Baby steps: Screening for vestibular function in infants using Cervical Evoked Myogenic Potentials (C-VEMPs), a pilot study
Florencia Montes		 ‘Hope for the best, prepare for the worst’: Parent support needs following the newborn hearing screen
Kayla Elliott
1500 – 1520 What are the research interests of parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children?
Zara Gray		 When not every baby gets screened; analysing when and how families disengage from hearing screening
Felicity Hood
1520 – 1545 AFTERNOON TEA | Exhibition Area, Mezzanine
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION | Ballroom 2 & 3
1545 – 1645 PANEL – Co-design – meaningful collaboration with parents of children and young people who are deaf or hard of hearing
1645 – 1700 Conference Close

POSTERS

We are pleased to present the following Posters at the 2023 ANHS Conference.

Posters form an integral component of the ANHS Conference program and will be available for viewing and associated discussion across both days.

Static poster’s will be displayed in hard copy, AO portrait size, in the venue mezzanine area.

The inaugural ANHSC Poster Prize ($500 cheque and trophy) will be awarded to the most outstanding contribution to the Poster Program, as determined by an expert panel of judges chaired by Professor Christine Yoshinaga-Itano.

If you are presenting a poster click here for guidelines to assist with your participation.

POSTER TITLE POSTER AUTHOR DOWNLOAD
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Detection of hearing loss in childhood (beyond newborn hearing screening)  
Monitoring listening skills beyond newborn hearing screening – The Functional Listening Index – Paediatric® Aleisha Davis
Neonatal bacterial meningitis: Hearing screening and audiological monitoring outcomes. Megan Moore
Managing non-targetted hearing losses identified through hearing screening  
Audiological characteristics and aetiology in children with congenital unilateral hearing loss Vicky Zhang
Ear and hearing health screening in educational settings for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-indigenous children aged 3 to 8 years of age Traci Flynn
Pathways and processes for children with conditions in addition to hearing loss  
Early communication profiles and predicting risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in children who are deaf and hard of hearing Kate Wilkins
Tasmanian Health Service – Investigating the feasibility of CMV screening statewide, for newborns who have not passed their initial newborn hearing screen. Nicole Zawadski
Keeley Moffett
Consumer and community participation in programs and research  
SWISH, Australia’s Country Music Capital and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – The Tamworth Model. Carol McKinnon
Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program (VIHSP) and Generation Victoria (GenV) – a collaborative approach to a state-wide cohort Melissa Moyano
Innovation in diagnostics  
Improving diagnosis and early intervention with EarGenie: a new technology for objective measurement of infant speech discrimination ability Julia Wunderlich
Challenging traditional models of care-including lessons from the pandemic  
One Size Does Not Fit All: Rethinking Service Delivery to Improve Access Larissa Ralph
Sally Higgins
Building sustainable integrated services – Linking models of collaborative care for infants with hearing loss in Tasmania. Katie Neal
Other  
Cochlear nerve deficiency is an important cause of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder at a population level in children Karen Liddle
Exploring families’ lived experiences of their deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s hearing device use during the COVID-19 pandemic Afyeda Rahman
Impact of COVID-19 on deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s learning: A mixed methods study Rija Khanal
Parental intentions to vaccinate deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Victoria against COVID-19 Jessica Xu
Performance and Characteristics of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program in Victoria, Australia: VIHSP 2015-2020 Chhoung Heng Lim
Transitioning to a team model of Family Support in the Statewide Audiology Service (Tasmanian Health Service) Tania Rowe
Andre Arias Stannard
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