HEAL 2022 - HEaring  across the Lifespan

The upcoming HEAL conference (live) will be held at our historic venue, the gorgeous Villa Erba Conference Center, on Lake Como in Cernobbio, which is once again ready to host our meeting.

Almost everything is ready, despite the difficult times we are going through.

The Scientific Program has been posted online with the detailed program of the numerous oral and poster sessions, as well as the Special Sessions and mini-symposia proposed and coordinated by many organizations and institutions active in the wide area of hearing care.

Here is a selection of the Scientific Sessions:

Speech perception, Speech perception in infants, Autism spectrum disorders, Epidemiology, Genetic issues, Auditory training, Comorbidities & medical issues, Complex needs, Auditory processing disorders, Listening effort, Cognitive decline, Hearing impairment and dementia, Cognition and hearing loss in children, Health inequalities, Quality of life and hearing loss, Implantable devices, Cochlear implants in children, Cochlear implants in adults, Surgical issues in cochlear implants, Cochlear implants – strategies and follow up, Early identification – novel techniques and methods, Mild and unilateral hearing loss, Noise exposure, Use and development of otoemissions, Tinnitus, Speech-in-noise testing with digits in noise, Amplification – technologies and strategies, Improving EHDI programs, Outcomes of EHDI programs, Improving hearing care and services, e- and m-health solutions, Computational audiology, Remote care solutions, Hearing care in low and middle-income areas, Advances in auditory evoked responses, Intervention and rehabilitation: strategies and methods, Patient perspective, Family perspectives, Family empowerment. 

Most promising, and not to be missed, should be also the presentations included in the several Technology Update Sessions.

Come and join us for another exciting conference in Cernobbio with all its charm of a peaceful, cozy and little frequented town on the Lake Como!

Ferdi Grandori (Chair)

CNR-IEIIT

Institute of Electronics, Information Engineering and Telecommunication

Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy

Sophia E. Kramer, PhD

at the Amsterdam UMC – location VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, 
The Netherlands

SOME OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS PLANNED 
FOR THE CONFERENCE 

Special Session
SPEECH-IN- NOISE TESTING WITH DIGITS IN NOISE
Organized by
Cas Smits (Amsterdam)

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Symposium
SENSITIVE NEW METHODS FOR MEASURING
HEARING IN INFANTS, CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Organized by David Moore and Lisa Hunter

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LECTURE
  TRIAGE IN AUDIOLOGY - NEW INCENTIVES AND NEW EXPRESSIONS
OF AN OLD BUT PERVASIVE IDEA

Mark Haggard

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Mini Symposium

HEARING IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA:
THE SENSE-COG PROJECT TO PROMOTE MENTAL WELL-BEING
IN OLDER EUROPEANS

Organized by the EU SENSE-COG PROJECT

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Lecture
HEARING FOR LIFE:
WORLD REPORT ON HEARING 

Shelly Chadha (WHO, Geneve)

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Round Table 
AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDERS

Organized by the European APD Group
and the EFAS APD Working Group

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Special Session on
MAKE LISTENING SAFE
Organized by Mark Laureyns and
the WHO World Hearing Forum

   Last update: 9 March  2022