otitis media language conference

[Joanne Roberts]

Otitis Media &Language Learning Sequelae Conference: Controversies &
Current Research

This interdisciplinary conference will use an evidence-based model to
address current research and controversies on the linkage of otitis
media in early childhood to hearing, speech and language development.
The conference will be held May 1-2, 2002 in Arlington, VA.  The
conference is supported by the National Institute of Deafness and Other
Communication Disorders, The National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Deafness Research Foundation.
Presenters include: Christine Dollaghan, Ph.D., Judith Gravel, Ph.D.,
Lisa Hunter, Ph.D. (co-chair), Jack Paradise, M.D., Joanne Roberts,
Ph.D. (chair), Richard Rosenfeld, M.D., Stephen Berman, M.D., Thomas
Campbell, Ph.D., Mark Haggard, Ph.D., Joseph Hall, Ph.D., Lynne
Haverkos, M.D., Carole Lannon, M.D., David Moore, Ph.D., Lynne
Vernon-Feagans, Ph.D.  The target audience includes pediatricians,
nurses, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, otolaryngologists
and psychologists and will be of interest to both researchers and
practitioners. The conference is sponsored by the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill Office of Continuing Medical Education and
supported by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. The
registration fee is $105. For more information and registration please
call UNC CME at 919-962-2118 or www. med.unc.edu/cme (click on Upcoming
CME events)


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Joanne Roberts, Ph.D.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, CB# 8180
UNC Chapel Hill
105 Smith Level Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8180
Phone:  919/966-7164
Fax:   919/966-7532