ACI Alliance sponsors annual conferences featuring expert speakers from across the treatment continuum - surgeons, audiologists, speech language pathologists, educators and researchers.  For more information on therapy for kids and other related topics explored during these conferences, please click the links below. 

CI2018 DC

• Shifting Focus: Using Functional Listening Skills to Guide Paediatric Cochlear Implant Evaluation, Aleisha Davis MPhil, MSLP
• Motivational Interviewing: An Approach to Improve Parental Engagement, Ivette Cejas PhD
• Cognitive Profiles of Children with Cochlear Implants: Results from a Sample of Children in the Context of a Supportive Inclusive Model, Years 2 and 3, Elizabeth Adams Costa PhD
• Professionals’ Rates of Auditory Verbal Strategy Utilization, Elizabeth Rosenzweig MS,
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• Engaging Parents Task Force: Bringing Parent Perspective into Clinical Design, Erika Gagnon AuD
• Language is Caught, not Taught: Supporting Parents in Developing and Monitoring their Child’s Functional Listening Skills to Guide Implantation Decisions, Maximise Listening and Learning Opportunities and Understanding its Impact on Outcomes, Aleisha Davis MPhil, MSLP
• Aural Rehabilitation for the Preschooler with Limited Language, Michael Douglas MA
• Language Input Matters Earlier than you Think!, Roberta Golinkoff PhD
• Responsive Adult-Child Interaction During Joint Book Reading: Supporting Children’s Early Language and Literacy, Jean DesJardin PhD
• Developing a Communication Assessment Protocol for Children, Mary Kay Therres MS
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Outcomes of a Family-Based Intervention Targeting Language, Behavior, and Maternal Sensitivity, Elizabeth Adams Costa PhD

CI2017 Pediatrics San Francisco

• Development of School-Age and Parent-Proxy Health-Related Quality of Life Measures for Children with Cochlear Implants, Michael Hoffman, MS
• PEARLS: A Parenting Intervention for Pediatric CI Recipients & Their Families, Ivette Cejas, PhD
• Evidence-based Guidelines for the Provision and Timing of Cochlear Implantation for Young Children, Jaime Leigh, PhD
• Is Early Intervention Necessary for Children with Partial Hearing?, Kate Hanvey, BSc Hons, MSC
• Delivery Panel: Tips from the Trenches - Lessons Learned from Experience with Pediatric Cochlear Implantation, Moderators: Jan Larky, MA & Jolie Fainberg, MA
• Factors Affecting Development of Babble in Prelingually Deaf Children Who Use Cochlear Implants, Liz Hamilton, SLP
• Category Indicators for Monitoring Long-Term Communication Outcomes in a Large Cohort of Children Using Cochlear Implants, Jaime Leigh, PhD
• Attention to Speech in Deaf Infants with Cochlear Implants, Yuanyuan Wang, PhD
• Factors Influencing Sound-Source Localization in Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants, Catherine Killan, MSc
• Cochlear Implantation in Children with Borderline Hearing Loss, Eunjung Na, MSc, PhD(c)
• Aetiology and Outcomes in Paediatric Reimplantation, Christopher Raine, MBBS, FRCS, ChM
• Effect of Phonological Errors on Speech Intelligibility in Early and Later Implanted Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users, Olga Peskova, MS
• Language Sampling Practices with Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Kristina Blaiser, PhD
• Parent-Child Relationship: Impact on the Whole Child, Ivette Cejas, PhD
• Hearing at Birth to Cochlear Implantation - Progressive Hearing Loss, Katie Sawaya, AuD

CI2016 International Toronto

• Working Hard to Make Out Speech: Listening Effort in Children with Cochlear Implants: Marloes Sparreboom PhD, Netherlands
• Speech Perception, Production and Language Outcomes for Children Who Receive Cochlear Implants Under 12 Months: A Multi-Centre Study: Shani Dettman PhD, Australia
• Early Auditory and Communication Mode Predictors of Speech Production Intelligibility in Children with Cochlear Implant: Andrea Warner-Czyz PhD, United States
• Developmental Patterns of Psychopathology in Early Identified Preschoolers with Cochlear Implants Compared to Normal Hearing Controls: Anouk Netten MD, Netherlands
• Pragmatic Language and Social Skills 8 Years After Pediatric Cochlear Implantation in the Childhood Development After Cochlear Implantation Study: Dawn Marsiglia MA, United States
  
  

CI2015 DC

• Effective Intervention Strategies for Teaching Early Literacy Skills to Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: Amy Lederberg, PhD
• Identifying Gaps in our Knowledge of Literacy in Children with Cochlear Implants: What Do We Want to Know Next and Why? Heather Hayes, PhD
• The Real Markers of Success in Cochlear Implantation in Young Children: Social Skills and Theory of Mind: Katie Neal, BA Sc (Ad), BHlth Sc (Hg&Sp), MCliniAud, MAudSA (CCP)
• Outcomes of a Parent Led Intervention for Young Children with Hearing Loss: Elizabeth Adams Costa, PhD
• The Sound Access Parent Outcomes Instrument for Children with Complex Needs: Kathryn Ritter, PhD

CI2014 Pediatrics Nashville

• Auditory-Verbal Therapy in Children with Hearing Loss: We Do Not Have Enough Specialists: Habib Rizk
• Use of a Family Characteristics Questionnaire to Examine Broader Perspectives Regarding Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users Outcomes: Shani Dettman
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Outcomes of a Family-Based Intervention for Young Children with Hearing Loss: Elizabeth Costa
• Working to Improve Caregivers' Intra-Rater Reliability on the Infant-Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integrations Scales (IT-MAIS) via Video: Brittan Barker
• Development of Joint Engagement in Pediatric Patients Over Two Years Post-Implantation: Ivette Cejas
• Parent-Child Interaction in Deaf Toddlers with a Cochlear Implant: Evelien Dirks
• Social Conversational Skills Development in Early-Implanted Children: Letizia Guerzoni
• Structured Assessment of Nonverbal Communication Skills in Children with Hearing Loss: Tina Grieco-Calub

CI2013 DC

• Role of SLP in Management of Very Young Children who Receive Cochlear Implants: Teresa Caraway, PhD, Learning Innovation Associates
• Effects of Cochlear Implants on Young Deaf Children's Language, Behavioral & Social Development: Ivette Cejas, PhD, University of Miami Ear Institute
• Role of Early Auditory Experience on Development of Word-Learning Skills After CI: Derek M. Houston, PhD, Indiana University