Sturbridge CI Convention: there's still time to register!

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COME TO STURBRIDGE !!!

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER, AND THERE IS STILL ROOM IN THE

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM!

NORTHEAST COCHLEAR IMPLANT CONVENTION

Friday-Sunday, July 8-10, 2011

Sturbridge Host Hotel & Convention Center

Sturbridge, Massachusetts

We warmly invite you to attend the Eighth Biennial Northeast Cochlear

Implant Convention in Sturbridge, MA. The " Sturbridge " convention is a

unique opportunity for CI users, their families, clinicians and

educators to network and learn together in a casual, supportive,

inclusive environment, while children participate in a fun-filled

Children's Program. The theme of this Convention, Connections!,

explores the many ways cochlear implant users connect to technology,

to each other, and to the world around them.

Visit http://www.neci2011.neciconvention.org and see the rich array of

offerings by world-class speakers for everyone from parents of infants

to young adult CI users to retirees, and from early intervention

providers to college administrators. The Friday workshop, co-sponsored

by Children's Hospital Boston, is called Links and Ladders to Support

Listening for Learning. If you are a clinician or educator, you will

magnify your understanding of auditory learning supports to help both

implant and hearing aid users. If you are the parent of a child with a

cochlear implant, please urge your child's educators and therapists to

visit http://www.neci2011.neciconvention.org , as they may wish to

attend the Friday session. They may decide to stay for Saturday and

Sunday as well, so as not to miss out on great sessions that will help

your child! (ASHA and AAA CEUs are pending; Certificates of Attendance

will be provided.) CI users should visit the Try It Out room to

explore various ways to couple their processors to cell phones, MP3

players, etc.

The Saturday keynote address will be given by Curtis Pride, Deaf Major

League Baseball Player for many seasons and now Head Baseball Coach at

Gallaudet University. Curtis will offer his inspirational story of

growing up deaf and, in 1996, becoming the first full-season deaf

player in the modern era of Major League Baseball. He has a daughter

who uses cochlear implants. His positive message on overcoming

challenges will inspire us. The Saturday banquet speaker is another

fine deaf athlete, Artinian, who is now college-bound and who

is remembered as the little girl in Sound and Fury who wanted an

implant. Her speech is cleverly titled " Switched at 9. "

Please register quickly! Registration on our Web site,

http://www.neci2011.neciconvention.org . In the past many Saturday and

Sunday attendees have told us that it was very valuable to come to the

Friday evening festivities. Then they were well acquainted, registered

and oriented for Saturday morning, and didn't miss out on the fun!

We'll look forward to seeing you in Sturbridge!

Terri , President, Minuteman Implant Club, Inc., Convention Chair

Marilyn Neault, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, Program Chair