Amy McConkey Robbins - Speech Pathologist

A Selection Of Invited Presentations
By Amy Mc Conkey Robbins National And International Venues

November 2008

Music and Pediatric Cochlear Implants: Bringing Science to Intervention
Keynote address at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Chicago, IL (with Dr. Charles Limb and Ms. Chris Barton.)

Auditory Rehabilitation for Children with Cochlear Implants.
Workshop at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

October 2008

Red Flags for Slow Progress in Children with Cochlear Implants
Mainstream Conference at Clarke School for the Deaf, Massachusetts

May 2008

“Bossing Your Brain” – Strategies for Cognitive-Linguistic
Enhancement in Children with Hearing Loss or Language Impairment.
21st Annual Auditory Management Seminar, Toronto, Ontario

December, 2007

Monitoring Communication Progress in Early Intervention.
Fourth International Sound Foundations through Amplification Conference
Chicago, IL

October 2007

Communication progress of children with CI’s -The good news and the bad news.
Cochlear Implants: The State of the Art Conference
The Ear Foundation, Nottingham, England.

September 2006

Working with Multi-handicapped Children with Cochlear Implants
Third National Congress of Turkish Audiology and Speech Pathology
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

A Week-long Course in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation
Peking University, Beijing, China.

August 2006

Cochlear Implant Intervention for Infants and Toddlers;
Working with Multi-lingual families with Cochlear Implanted-children
International Course, School of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

April 2006

Early Cochlear Implantation and the Role of Music.
IX Congress on Cochlear Implants
School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

March 2006

Unique Measures of Benefits for Early-Implanted Children
8th European Symposium on Pediatric Cochlear Implantation. Venice, Italy