Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits (2005)
Chapter: Appendix C: Public Forum Participation
Appendix C
Public Forum Participation
The committee held a public forum on May 7, 2003, and invited organizations in the scientific, service, and advocacy communities to attend. The organizations invited by the committee to nominate speakers for the forum are listed below. Organizations listed in bold type nominated speakers, although not all nominees accepted our invitation.
ORGANIZATIONS INVITED TO NOMINATE SPEAKERS
AARP Public Policy Institute/Federal Affairs Department
Academy of Dispensing Audiologists
Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology
Acoustic Neuroma Association
ADARA (advocacy for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals)
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Alliant University Foundation
AMBUCS (national service organization for people with disabilities)
American Academy of Audiology
American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians
American Academy of Otolaryngology
American Association of the Deaf-Blind
American Auditory Society
American Hearing Research Foundation
American Neurotologic Society
American Otological Society
American Society for Deaf Children
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
American Tinnitus Association
Association of Administrative Law Judges
Association of Late Deafened Adults
Association on Higher Education and Disability
Auditory-Verbal International, Inc.
Autism Network for Hearing and Visually Impaired Persons
Better Hearing Institute
CAOHC: Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation
Captioned Media Program/National Association of the Deaf
Center for Hearing Loss in Children
Cochlear Implant Association, Inc.
Community Legal Services
Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf
Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
Council for Exceptional Children
Council on Education of the Deaf, Gallaudet University
Deaf Community Advocacy Network
Deafness Research Foundation
Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center
Disability, Inc./Sign Language USA, Inc.
The EAR Foundation
Educational Equity Concepts, Inc.
Galler & Atkins
Hard of Hearing Advocates
Hear Me Foundation
HEAR NOW
Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults
Hope for Hearing Foundation
The Hyperacusis Network
International Hearing Society
Intertribal Deaf Council
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Mainstream, Inc.
National Asian Deaf Congress
National Association of Disability Examiners
National Association of the Deaf
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.
National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing
National Black Deaf Advocates
National Board for Certification in Hearing Instrument Sciences
National Cued Speech Association
National Family Association for Deaf-Blind
National Hearing Conservation Association
National Information Clearinghouse on Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
NISH: National Industries for the Severely Handicapped
National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation
Neurofibromatosis, Inc.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
Postsecondary Education Consortium
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
Rehabilitation Services Administration, Deafness and Communicative Disorders Branch
Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH)
Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advance in Children, Inc.
Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses, Inc.
TASH (advocacy organization for people with disabilities)
The Triological Society
FORUM SPEAKERS
Dan Malcore, The Hyperacusis Network, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Susan Gold, M.A., CCC-SLP/A, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
Jane Madell, Ph.D., Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC
Sandra MacLean, M.A., CCC-A, Washington Audiology Services, Seattle, Washington
Robert Ruben, M.D., FACS, FAAP, Albert Einstein Medical College, New York
Cheryl McGinnis, American Tinnitus Association, Portland, Oregon
Richard Tyler, Ph.D., University of Iowa
Warren Hanna, Hard of Hearing Advocates, Framingham, Massachusetts (on videotape)
