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Friday, May 10

7th Annual Sound Support Conference

Join us for the 7th Annual Sound Support Conference with featured speaker Dr. Ivette Cejas!

By University of Michigan Sound Support

Date and time

Friday, May 10 · 8am - 3pm EDT

Location

University of Michigan NCRC

2800 Plymouth Rd Building 18, Dining Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Refund Policy

Contact the organizer to request a refund.

Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

Agenda

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Welcome and Overview of Sound Support

Kelly Starr, MA, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

The Power of Parents & Positive Mental Health: What You Need to Know

Ivette Cejas, PhD

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

The Power of Parents & Positive Mental Health: What You Need to Know

Ivette Cejas, PhD.

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Speech Intelligibility Index: A Referral Guideline for Pediatric CI Evaluation

Gabrielle Watson, AuD

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

Q& A Panel Discussion

2:15 PM - 2:25 PM

Mobile Unit Overview

Angelique Boerst, MA

2:25 PM - 2:40 PM

Closing Remarks

Kelly Starr, MA, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Mobile Unit Tour

Tour the Michigan Medicine Mobile Clinic!

About this event

Please join us for the 7th Annual Sound Support Conference! We are excited to welcome our keynote speaker, Ivette Cejas, Ph. D. who will present on mental health with hearing loss. Dr. Cejas is a licensed Psychologist, Director of Family Support Services, and Associate Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology at the University of Miami Ear Institute.

Featured Presentation: The Power of Parents & Positive Mental Health: What You Need to Know to Support Your Families

Parents play a key role in children’s overall development and long-term success. This conference will discuss the effects of parenting stress, mental health challenges, and involvement on pediatric hearing loss outcomes. Strategies that providers and educators can use to identify and coach parents on how to cope or reduce stressors will also be reviewed. Lastly, the importance of mental health screening in children, as well as brief interventions that can be incorporated into the classroom or therapy session will be discussed.

Additional presentations will include new research on referral guidelines for cochlear implant candidacy for children with the speech intelligibility index (SII) by Gabrielle Watson, Au.D. and a Q &A panel with our Sound Support Audiologists and Listening and Spoken Language Specialists.

Due to anticipated high demand and limited space- this workshop registration will be on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE basis for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, teacher consultants for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing, and teachers.

If you need disability-related accommodations to participate in this program/event, please contact Amanda McGuire at oto-soundsupportci@med.umich.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs. Note: Please allow at least three weeks’ notice for requests for CART or an ASL interpreter due to availability and scheduling needs.

If you have dietary restrictions or allergies, please contact Amanda McGuire at oto-soundsupportci@med.umich.edu.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the event for?

This event is geared towards educational professionals and medical professionals. In particular, educational audiologists, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and teacher consultants for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing are encouraged to register!

Will I be able to register on site the day of the conference?

No. Unfortunately, due to anticipated high attendance and limited space, you are required to register before Friday April 26th or when available tickets run out, whichever happens first.

What are my parking options at the event?

Parking is included in your registration fee and is located in the parking structure on Huron Parkway (NC100 Parking structure). You will receive a parking pass upon arrival by a parking attendant.

Will food be provided?

Yes! Breakfast and lunch will be provided, and is included in the cost of your ticket. If you have dietary restrictions or allergies, please contact Amanda McGuire at oto-soundsupportci@med.umich.edu.

What is the refund policy?

All registration fees will be refunded if the event must be canceled. If the event is rescheduled by our organization and a participant cannot attend, all registration fees will be refunded. Otherwise, registration fees are non-refundable.

What credits will be available?

5 ASHA, 5 SCECH, and 5 LSLS CE credits and a certificate of completion will be available to those who attended the entire conference, sign in/out and complete/turn in post-course documentation at the end of the conference day. Partial credit will not be offered for this event.

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Contact Sound Support Coordinator Amanda McGuire at oto-soundsupportci@med.umich.edu

Organized by

University of Michigan Sound Support

Sound Support is a grant through the University of Michigan Department of Otolaryngology and Michigan Medicaid, which allows our team to provide outreach to individuals with hearing loss throughout the state of Michigan. Our team is invested in our mission of improving the quality and timeliness of clinical care for our pediatric and adult patients, including diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of hearing loss.

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