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Profile: Tatyana Markova

March 28, 2013March 16, 2013 by

Tatyana Markova is a Doctor of medical sciences and a geneticist with 18 years of working experience. In 1991 she graduated from the Therapy department of the Yaroslavl State Medical Institute. She worked as scientist for the Department for genetics at the St. Petersburg National ENT Research Institute on the basis of the St Petersburg …

Profile: Christine Evans

February 18, 2013February 9, 2013 by

Christine Evans is a speech-language pathologist currently working as adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She teaches coursework related to teaching listening and spoken language to children with hearing loss, and supervises clinical practicum for students learning to provide spoken language services. Ms. Evans has a B.S. in Communication Sciences and …

Profile: Mariya Boboshko

May 8, 2015January 15, 2013 by

Mariya Boboshko is the Head of the Hearing and Language Laboratory at the science and research center of the Saint-Petersburg State I.P. Pavlov Medical University; she holds the degree of MD and is Professor of the Department for Otorhinolaryngology of the Northwestern State I.I. Mechnikov Medical University. In 1981 Dr. Boboshko graduated cum laude from …

Profile: Sue Lewis

December 9, 2012 by

Sue Lewis works currently part time for Mary Hare, a charity and school that supports deaf children, their families and their teachers. She is Course Leader for three Masters in Education courses that train teachers of the deaf and educational audiologists. She has specialised for many years in working with teachers and others in promoting …

Profile: Katrin Gaiser

March 27, 2013December 3, 2012 by

o 34 years old o Mother of a 1-year-old son o Studies: Special Education for hearing impaired and learning disabled in Heidelberg, Germany o Additional studies for early intervention (Prof. Horsch, Heidelberg) o In-job-training at the Special Education Centre for hearing impaired in Stegen / Freiburg (BBZ Stegen) o Job / place of work: • Centre for Hearing Impaired Hegau / Bodensee …

Profile: Todd Houston

January 1, 2013October 5, 2012 by

Mr. Todd Houston is Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Akron in the USA with specific expertise in auditory learning and spoken language with young children with hearing loss. He is currently doing research examining communication outcomes in children with hearing loss, especially those with cochlear implants. His primary area of expertise …

Profile: Viktorija McDonell

July 3, 2012 by

Coordinator of Rehabilitation. Cochlear Ltd. Eastern and Central Europe Viktorija has a long association with Cochlear. Personally for over 24 years since her daughter Holly received a cochlear implant in June 1987. Professionally as a Teacher of the Deaf, Viktorija was Coordinator of Pediatric Habilitation in Cochlear Asia Pacific from 2000 – 2006. This …

Profile: Rachel Chaikof

June 22, 2012 by

Rachel Chaikof is a bilateral cochlear implant recipient who received her first cochlear implant at the age of 2 and a half in 1989 when she was one of the first 200 children in the US to be implanted and was raised with the Auditory-Verbal approach. She founded Cochlear implant Online in 2001 to create …

Profile: Sue Archbold

August 22, 2012June 17, 2012 by

Sue Archbold, PhD Chief Executive The Ear Foundation, Nottingham UK Sue was the teacher of the deaf of the first child in the UK to have a cochlear implant. She then helped establish The Ear Foundation to fund the first paediatric cochlear implants in the UK, and went on to co-ordinate the Nottingham Paediatric Cochlear …

Profile: Konstantin Nikiforov

June 12, 2012 by

Born in 1980 in Armiansk, Ukraine. Graduated from the Department of pediatrics of the Crimean State S.I. Georgievskiy Medical University in 2003. 2003-2004 – internship in ‘Pediatric otolaryngology’. 2004-2006 – clinical residency training in ‘Pediatric otolaryngology’ 2004-2005 – children’s otolaryngologist of the 1st children’s polyclinic of Simferopol. 2006 – qualification training in audiology on the …

Profile: Barbara Streicher

May 7, 2012May 7, 2012 by

Barbara Streicher, PhD

Cologne, Germany

barbara.streicher@t-online.de
Education: University of Cologne, major in ‘Special pedagogics’, ‘Communication’ and ‘Emotional development in history lessons’.

Practice in a school for the hard of hearing. Upon graduation – degree as ‘Defectologist’

Qualification enhancement:

Courses in audio-verbal speech and language pedagogics in Canada and the USA.

Courses in consulting parents of small children and psychotherapy under the supervision of MD, Prof. M. Papousek in the Institute for social pediatrics and adolescent medicine of the Munich Ludwig-Maximilian University.

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Profile: Monika Lehnhardt

May 1, 2012April 29, 2012 by

Dr. Dr.h.c. Monika Lehnhardt was born in Vienna and graduated from the University Alma Mater Rudolphina. She obtained her PhD in philology, psychology and philosophy. During her professoinal career she has held various positions in companies such as Schering (Berlin), Monsanto (Dusseldorf and Brussels) and Pharmacia (Freiburg). She established Cochlear Europe in Basel in 1987. While being Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from 1987 until 1999, Cochlear Europe grew from two to seventy employees and additional offices were opened in London and Hannover. In 1999 she stepped aside and continued to work in a Management position for business development and customer relations which was connected with extensive travel across Europe and the US. Between 2004 and 2008 she concentrated her efforts on 18 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, from the Baltic, to Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Since 2002 she has been Chairwoman of the Professor Ernst Lehnhardt-Foundation. She has also served as a member of the Board of Auditory Verbal International, Inc. (AVI. Inc.). In 2007 she established her own company under the name Monsana AG in Basel, Switzerland. In July 2007 she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor by the International Academy of Otorhinolaryngology -Head and Neck Surgery, St. Petersburg.

Profile: Julia Litvina

April 7, 2012 by

Julia Litvina is an otolaryngologist and audiologist from Russia. She is currently employed at the department for audiology and training of the company “Phonak CIS”. Her major areas of involvement currently include remote training and support of specialists in hearing technology. “Phonak CIS” is part of the “Sonova Group” holding, Switzerland. The company produces hearing …

Profile: Dimity Dornan

October 6, 2012March 15, 2012 by

Dr Dimity Dornan AM,

PhD UQ, HonDUniv USQ, BSpThy, FSPAA, CpSp, LSLS Cert AVT

Dimity Dornan AM is a Speech Pathologist, and the Founder and Managing Director of Hear and Say. This not-for-profit program, opened in July 1992, and enables children with hearing loss to listen and speak through the use of modern hearing technology combined with the simultaneous education of parents and children (Auditory-Verbal Therapy).

Today Hear and Say provides services for over 500 children and families in five Queensland centres, plus a telemedicine Outreach program for rural, regional and international children and families.

Dimity is also the founder of Hear and Say Research and Innovation, the research and development unit of Hear and Say, and Hear and Say WorldWide, their global professional training program. Recently she initiated an international consortium of 10 university training courses engaged in similar professional training, the Ling Consortium. She has also co-founded “Women with Spirit”, a global collaboration of women linking women’s initiatives for the Children of Tomorrow.

Profile: Andrew Kendrick

March 8, 2012 by

Andrew Kendrick has worked extensively in the field of Auditory-Verbal Therapy over the past 24 years. Andrew’s work as therapist, consultant, lecturer, and publisher has given him the opportunity to live and work in Australia, Singapore, and China. During this time Andrew has gained significant experience in working with children, parents, teachers, therapists, audiologists and …

Profile Vigen Bakhshinyan, MD

October 9, 2016February 6, 2011 by Michael Goriany

Dr. Vigen Bakhshinyan Russian scientific-practical Centre of Audiology and Hearing Rehabilitation, Moscow Born in 1975 in Yerevan, Armenia. Graduated from Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi in 1998, Faculty of Pediatrics 1998-2001 – Residency in ENT, Chair of Ear-Nose-Throat Diseases of the Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, Medical Centre “Erebouni” 2001-2005 – …