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Dear Colleagues
(Please excuse multiple postings). Welcome to “Living with a Cochlear Implant, EURO-CIU symposium” in Helsinki, Finland, 20-21 April 2017 http://www.euro-ciu2017.fi/en/
The topics are Health Economics, Music and Cognitive Development, Peer Support and Rehabilitation, Accessibility to Education, Multilingualism, and Design for All. We invite submission of short abstracts via this link: http://www.euro-ciu2017.fi/en/guidelines-for-posters/
Please submit the abstracts before 20th February. Registration fee -50% for the poster-presenters - includes daytime program in symposium, lunch and afternoon coffee (registration will open soon)
For the event we have an exciting list of speakers in the field of Music and Cognitive Development (and CIs). We will introduce you not only new scientific findings on this field, but also workshops including singing, rap-music (Johanna Pätzold and Björn Petersen), figurenotes and playing in a band using them, Finnish speech-music groups and their methods for young children with CIs, and world famous Finnish music play school system and music and autism. Thus, you will get new ideas not only for your theoretical basis of you research, but also for creating musical interventions and for rehabilitation.
Most of the abstracts for the talks and workshops for this topic are already on the website.
Confirmed speakers for the topic Music and Cognitive Development are:
Johanna Pätzold, M.A, Musicologist, Music Research (Germany/USA) Dr. Björn Petersen, Music in the Brain, Aarhus University (Denmark) Dr. Teppo Särkämö, PhD, Docent (Psychology) (Finland) Elisa Seppänen, Lecturer, Sibelius Academy/Music Education Department (Finland) MA Ulla Sergejeff, Speech therapist, Outloud oy (Finland) MA Heini Siltainsuu, the coordinator of FeelingMusic (Finland) PsM Sanni Verkasalo, Music therapist, Special Music Centre Resonaari (Finland) On behalf of the organising committee,
Best regards, Ritva Torppa ritva.torppa@xxxxxxxxxxx
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