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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Public Forum Participation." National Research Council. 2005. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11099.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Public Forum Participation." National Research Council. 2005. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11099.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Public Forum Participation." National Research Council. 2005. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11099.
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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)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Public Forum Participation." National Research Council. 2005. Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11099.
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Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss. This volume is the product of that study.

Hearing Loss: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits reviews current knowledge about hearing loss and its measurement and treatment, and provides an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the current processes and criteria. It recommends changes to strengthen the disability determination process and ensure its reliability and fairness. The book addresses criteria for selection of pure tone and speech tests, guidelines for test administration, testing of hearing in noise, special issues related to testing children, and the difficulty of predicting work capacity from clinical hearing test results. It should be useful to audiologists, otolaryngologists, disability advocates, and others who are concerned with people who have hearing loss.

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