Alys Young - POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter
SORD, The University of Manchester
Credentials: Alys Young is Professor of Social Work Education and Research at the University of Manchester. She has previously worked as a social worker with d/Deaf people.
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Alys Young PhD, MSc (Oxon.), MA (Cantab.), CQSW, is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Research with Deaf People programme at the University of Manchester, UK. She is also Visiting Professor at the Centre for Deaf Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She has an international reputation for her research work with families with deaf children, multi-professional early intervention services and the provision of health and social care services in signed languages. Her book (with B. Temple) on Social Science Research and d/Deaf people is published by Oxford, in 2013. |
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Receives Intellectual property rights,Grants for Independent contractor from National Deaf Children's Society, UK.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Gwen Carr - POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter
Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
Credentials: Deputy Director of the England NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme and Hon. Senior Research Associate at the University College London Ear Institute.
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Gwen is Deputy Director of the England NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme and Hon. Senior Research Associate at University College London Ear Institute.
Gwen’s early career was as a qualified teacher of the deaf specialising in the development of language and communication and in working with very young deaf children and their families. She spent 10 years as Head of Sensory Support Services in a Metropolitan Authority, moving on to the National Deaf Children’s Society in 2002 as Director of UK Services before joining the NHS in 2006.
Gwen co-led the UK government funded research and development study ‘Informed Choice, Families and Deaf Children’ leading to the production of national guidance for professionals and a comprehensive handbook for parents. In addition to Informed Choice, her particular interests are in multi-professional teamwork and family support, child and family outcomes and sharing the news of the diagnosis of deafness following newborn hearing screening.
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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