FEBRUARY 8-10, 2023

welcome drink on February 7

Organisers

KU Leuven, together with OTICON, BRUGMANN & ULB

FEBRUARY 7 AT 7PM: WELCOME DRINK

DE RECTOR

Oude Markt 4

3000 Leuven

Wednesday February 8

Challenges of children with hearing impairment

09H00 WELCOME AND COFFEE

09h30 – 10h45
KEYNOTE session

Introduction and chair: Axelle Calcus (ULB)

Keynote speaker: José de Krosse, member of the association of and for parents of deaf and hard-of-hearing children VLOK-CI.

10H45 COFFEE BREAK

11h00 – 12h15
ESR SESSION 1

Chair: Julia Chiossi

Presentations:

Marie Joe Kfoury (ESR 15), Axelle Calcus, & Brigitte Charlier: Perception and production of acoustical contrasts for pharyngeal fricatives in non-native learners : a training effect supported by embodied-based training

Lucie Van Bogaert (ESR 14), Hélène Loevenbruck, & Anne Vilain: Speech perception and production in children with cochlear implants using different speech and language rehabilitation approaches

Elodie Sabatier (ESR 13), Jacqueline Leybaert, & Fabienne Chetail: Orthographic learning in deaf-or-hard-of-hearing children: how to adapt a self-teaching procedure?

12H15 LUNCH

13h15 – 14h30
ESR session 2

Chair: Cora Caron

Presentations:

Nathalie Czeke (ESR 12), Ruth Swanwick Ruth, & Edward Killan: Access to and opportunities for communication in moments of joint attention

Elettra Casellato (ESR 11), Ruth Swanwick, & Edward Killan: The Ethical Approval Journey: challenges and useful lessons

Sanjana Sankar (ESR 10), Denis Beautemps, & Thomas Hueber: Exploring deep learning techniques to analyse the attention mechanism for ACSR

14H30 COFFEE BREAK

14h45 – 16h30
round table

Chair: Ruth Swanwick

Intervention of Wouter David (KU Leuven)

18H30 DINNER

THE OPTIMIST

Vismarkt 7

3000 Leuven

Thursday February 9 

Daily work and challenges of clinicians

09H00 WELCOME AND COFFEE

09h30 – 10h45
Keynote session

Introduction and chair: Cécile Colin (ULB)

Keynote speakers: Brigitte Charlier (CCP) and Paul Deltenre (Brugmann)

10H45 COFFEE BREAK

11h00 – 12h15
ESR session 3

Chair: Elodie Sabatier

Presentations:

Kristina Burum (ESR 9), Simon Sundström, & Björn Lyxell: Theory of mind, language and working memory in typically developing school-aged children

Julia Chiossi (ESR 8), Elaine Ng , Lone Percy-Smith, Kathleen Faulkner, Björn Lyxell: Pupil insights during novel word detection and dynamic learning: a study in school-aged children

Lyan Porto (ESR 7), Jan Wouters, & Astrid van Wieringen: Speech-in-noise Understanding and Cognitive Factors in Children with Normal Hearing and Hearing Impairment

12H15 LUNCH

13h15 – 14h30
ESR session 4

Chair: Lucie Van Bogaert

Presentations:

Monica Ashokumar (ESR 6), Jean-Luc Schwartz, & Takayuki Ito: Role of orofacial somatosensory inputs in speech perception and production in individuals with hearing-impairment

Cora Caron (ESR 5)Jean-Luc Schwartz, Coriandre Vilan, Jacqueline Leybaert, & Cécile Colin: The integration of Cued-Speech cues to speech sounds in the presence of noise in severely hearing-impaired adults

Alina Schulte (ESR 4) Jeremy Marozeau, Andrej Kral, & Hamish Innes-Brown: Are neural correlates of audio-tactile speech measurable with functional near-infrared spectroscopy?

14H30 COFFEE BREAK

14h45 – 16h15
round table

Chair: Brigitte Charlier

17H30 Guided tour of the Grand Beguinage (1 hour)

Entrance Saint John the Baptist Church

Groot Begijnhof (Schapenstraat)

3000 Leuven

FRIDAY February 10

Translational research

09H00 WELCOME AND COFFEE

09h30 – 10h45
Keynote session

Introduction and chair: Elaine Ng (Oticon)

Keynote speakers: Birgit Philips (Cochlear) and Hamish Innes-Brown (Oticon)

10H45 COFFEE BREAK

11h00 – 12h15
ESR session 5

Chair: Alina Schulte

Presentations:

Niloofar Tavakoli (ESR 3), Rüdiger Land , & Andrej Kral: Time-frequency analysis of local field potentials in DZ and MLS 

Yifan Wang (ESR 2), Samuel John, Felix Repp, Holger Blume, Thomas Lenarz, & Andrej Kral: Automatic landmark localization in CT images using deep learning

Irem Adalilar (ESR 1), Jan Wouters, & Astrid Van Wieringen: Overview of the research using ASSR in children with Single Sided Deafness with a CI.

12h15 – 12h45
concluding remarks

Astrid Van Wieringen

THE LUNCH AND THE HANDS-ON SESSION ARE RESTRICTED TO THE ESRs

12H45 LUNCH FOR THE ESRs

14h00- 16h00
hands-on session: statistics

Elaine Ng and Hamish Innes-Brown (Oticon)