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2010 Marion Downs Lecture Features Mary Pat Moeller, PhD, Expert on Language Development in Infants with Hearing Loss
 The American Academy of Audiology Foundation is pleased to announce that Mary Pat Moeller, PhD, director of the Center for Childhood Deafness at Boys Town National Research Hospital will present the Marion Downs Lecture in Pediatric Audiology at AudiologyNOW!® 2010. Dr. Moeller’s presentation, Optimizing Early Word Learning in Infants with Hearing Loss, is scheduled for Friday, April 16, 2010, at the San Diego Convention Center.
Dr. Moeller’s presentation will examine factors that influence word learning in children with hearing loss. She will discuss how recent developmental research suggests that children develop “smarter” learning strategies as their vocabulary grows, and how these theories have interesting implications for outcome measurement. Her discussion will focus on lexical development in the key areas of vocal development, support for word learning, and access to word learning. She will also discuss ways in which individual differences in developmental transitions can guide clinical decision-making.
Dr. Moeller’s studies at Purdue University encompassed audiology, speech, hearing, and aural rehabilitation, and she subsequently earned a PhD in child language at the University of Nebraska. She is currently conducting a prospective longitudinal study of language development in infants with hearing loss, and she is co-principal investigator of a multicenter study investigating outcomes of hard-of-hearing children. She is past president of the Academy for Rehabilitative Audiology, and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, Alexander Graham Bell Association, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, and a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Moeller has published and lectured widely on language development in children with hearing loss.
The Marion Downs Lecture in Pediatric Audiology is funded annually by the AAA Foundation with a grant from The Oticon Foundation. In 2010, a live Webcast of the lecture will be available at no charge through eAudiology, thanks to additional funding from The Oticon Foundation. Registration for complimentary viewing is on a first come, first served basis; the presentation will also be available on demand through spring 2011.
The Board of the AAA Foundation is grateful to The Oticon Foundation for their gift that funds the Marion Downs Lecture each year. This generous contribution enables the AAA Foundation’s support of the presentation of research by Dr. Moeller and other world-renowned hearing scientists, advancing education in pediatric audiology.
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