500 PM Reception with hors d oeuvres 600 PM Dinner 730 PM Opening Remarks Wednesday, August 10, 2016 745 PM Keynote Address Hidden hearing loss (Invited) Christopher Plack University of Manchester, United Kingdom 700 AM Thurs AM1: Individual Differences Thursday, August 11, 2016 800 AM Spectral ripple discrimination by listeners with older ears: Modeling and psychophysics Frederick J. Gallun 830 AM Predicting hearing aid outcomes with static and moving spectral-ripple sensitivity Christi Miller University of Washington, USA 900 AM Can cognitive capacity predict listening effort? Jeff Crukley Starkey Hearing Technologies, USA Posters Session I Thurs AM2: New Outcome Measures 1100 AM Effects of task focus on subjective ratings of speech in noise by listeners with hearing impairment Lorienne M. Jenstad University of British Columbia, Canada 1130 AM EEG in response to running speech: Applications in diagnostics and noise suppression Tom Francart University of Leuven, Belgium 1200 PM Self-adjusted time-compressed speech as a hearing aid outcome measure (Scholar) Jaclyn Schurman University of Maryland, USA 1230 PM Lunch
Free Time Thurs PM: Changing Healthcare Systems 500 PM Hearing health care: Challenges and opportunities (Invited) Margaret Wallhagen University of California, San Francisco, USA 545 PM Management of and outcomes with a commercial self-fitting hearing aid Gitte Keidser National Acoustic Laboratories and the Hearing CRC, Australia 610 PM A novel intervention to promote help seeking for hearing loss Gabrielle Saunders 635 PM Pilot exploration of comparative analysis of over-the-counter hearing devices and dispensed HA (Scholar) Nicholas Reed Johns Hopkins University, USA 700 PM Dinner Friday, August 12, 2016 Friday AM 1 New Outcome Measures: Spatial Hearing 800 AM Spatial perception beyond location (Invited) Simon Carlile Starkey Hearing Research Center, USA 845 AM Spatial sound perception with HA: Localization, distance, width, elevation and internalization (Scholar) Gabriel Gomez Technical University of Munich, Germany 910 AM Modeling real-world speech listening environments Yu-Hsiang Wu University of Iowa, USA 935 PM Validation of an ecologically valid speech-in-noise test: The AVATAR approach Annelies Devesse KU Leuven, Belgium Poster Session II
Fri AM 2 Cognition and Hearing Impairment 1130 AM Can hearing aids prevent cognitive decline and dementia? (Gatehouse Lecture) Piers Dawes University of Manchester, United Kingdom 1210 PM Cognitive function and cognitive assessment in the older adult: Implications for hearing professionals (Invited) Natalie Phillips Concordia University, Canada 1250 PM Lunch Free Time Fri PM: Aging and Effort 500 PM Hearing loss as a marker of auto-ageism in some older adults with hearing loss (Invited) Jean-Pierre Gagné University of Montreal, Canada 545 PM The gate to listening effort: investigating early stages of auditory cognitive processing Maja Serman Sivantos GmbH 610 PM Quantifying the Fatigue Factor: Variables affecting speech-processing related fatigue Benjamin Hornsby Vanderbilt University, USA 635 PM Report on the Eriksholm workshop on hearing impairment and cognitive energy: FUEL Kathleen Pichora-Fuller University of Toronto, Canada
Saturday, August 13, 2016 Sat AM1: New Technology 800 AM A dataset for model-driven and neural-driven fitting procedures Peter Nordqvist KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 830 AM Automated fitting to target based on real-ear measurements: Reliability, matching accuracy Sam Denys KU Leuven, Belgium 900 AM Effect of noise and noise reduction on processing effort in hearing-impaired listeners Thomas Lunner Eriksholm Research Centre, Oticon A/S, Denmark Poster Session III Sat AM 2 Pediatrics 1100 AM The effects of amplification on perceptual and cognitive development in children (Invited) Ryan McCreery Boys Town National Research Hospital, USA 1140 AM Developmental outcomes for early-identified children who are hard of hearing at 12 to 48 mos. Carren Stika San Diego State University, USA 1205 PM Gap detection with a prescriptive procedure in children and adults with hearing loss Marc Brennan Boys Town National Research Hospital, USA 1230 Lunch Free Time
Sat PM: Tinnitus 600 PM Tinnitus demographics, current interventions and sound therapy delivered by hearing aids Gerald Popelka Stanford University, USA 500 PM Treatment of primary tinnitus: Initial multi-center outcomes Liu Peng The First Affiliated Hospital of Guang Zhou Traditional Chinese Medicine University, China 530 PM Hearing aids vs. combination instruments for tinnitus management: Results of two randomized controlled trials James Henry 630 PM Acoustic coordinated reset neuromodulation for the treatment of tinnitus Peter Tass Jülich Research Center, Germany Sunday, August 14, 2016 Conference concludes