Forum Proceedings

Attendees at the Forum were selected as representatives from one of five stakeholder groups identified by the T²RERC in the development of the Demand-Pull Project.

The Hearing Enhancement categories are defined as:

1. Technical Experts: Persons who have performed extensive research in the areas of hearing aids and assistive listening products. The research performed by Technical Experts is directed towards the technical development or enhancement of products. The RERC on Hearing Enhancement was a major resource in this category, as well as representation from clinicians and technicians from health care suppliers and medical facilities.
2. Technology Producers: Innovators of core technologies that are incorporated into the design of hearing enhancement products. Participants in this category represent a company, a research facility, or individual innovator.
3. Technology Consumers: Also known as Product Producers, are companies that acquire technology for inclusion in the manufacture of assistive listening products. Many manufacturers who participated in this Forum played a dual role as Technology Consumer and Technology Producer.
4. Product Consumers: People that use assistive listening products in their day to day life. Many participants were people that use hearing aids, as well as clinicians that prescribe hearing aid products.
5. Resource Providers: Resources to the industry as third party reimbursement suppliers, government agencies involved in products for persons with disabilities, community service suppliers and national agencies.
6. Advocates: People who spend a considerable amount educating the general public on issues related to the hearing impaired.

While some attendees could be placed into one or more category, they have, for the purposes of the Project, been designated into a single classification listed below.

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Technical Experts (RERC on Hearing Enhancement)

The following technical experts can be contacted through:

The Lexington School for the Deaf/
Center for the Deaf
Jackson Heights, NY 11370
Ph: 718-899-8800 ext. 239 (Voice/TTY)
718-899-3030 (TTY only)

Matt Bakke mbakke@lexnyc.org Mark Ross markross@uconnvm.uconn.edu Arthur Boothroyd Mauro Caputi caputi@lexnyc.org

Anita Haravon Harry Levitt hlevitt@email.gc.cuny.edu Lois O'Neill Loneill@interport.net

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Technology Producers

Steve Leeb MIT Electronic Engineering Room 10-069 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 Ph: 617-253-9360 Fax: 617-258-6774 sbleeb@mit.edu Tim Vear Shure Brothers Inc. 222 Hartrey Ave. Evanston, IL 60202-3696 Ph: 847-866-2200 Fax: 847-866-2279 vear_tim@shure.com Website: www.shure.com Neil Lupton Talking Lights LLC 28 Constitution Road Boston, MA 02129 Ph: 617-242-0050 Fax: 617-242-0046 NovateCo@aol.com Douglas L. Jones University of Illinois 1308 W. Main St. Urbana, IL 61801 Ph: 217-244-6823 Fax: 217-244-1642 Jones@ifp.uiuc.edu

Linda Kozma-Spytek Gallaudet University 800 Florida Ave Ne Washington, Dc 20002 Ph: 202-651-5326 Bill Crandall The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center 2232 Webster Street San Francisco, CA. 94115 Phone: 225-344-2812 bc@ski.org Al Longhi Lithium Power Technologies, Inc. 20955 Morris Ave. P. O. Box 978 Manvel, TX 77578-3819 Ph: 281-489-4889 Fax: 281-489-6644 alonghi@lithiumpower.com Website: www.lithiumpower.com

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Technology Consumers/Product Producers

Tom Burns Starkey Laboratories 6600 Washington Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55344 Ph: 800-328-8602 Fax: 612-828-6972 tburns@starkey.com Website: www.starkey.com Laura Voll Phonak Inc 4520 Weaver Parkway Warrenville, IL 60555 Ph: 800-777-7333 Fax: 630-393-7400 Lvoll@phonak.com Website: www.phonak.com Robert Ghent Sonic Innovations Worldwide Headquarters 2795 E. Cottonwood Pkwy Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 801-288-0993 rghent@sonici.com Website: www.sonici.com Stephen C. Thompson Knowles Electronics, Inc. 1151 Maplewood Dr. Itasca, IL 60143 Ph: 630-285-5876 Steve.Thompson@Knowlesinc.Com Website: www.knowlesinc.com Ron Bloomgren Earmold Design Inc 3424 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 55406 Ph: 612-721-5711 Website: www.800ediminn.com Steve Armstrong Gennum Corp P.O. Box 489 Stn. "A" Burlington, Ontario Canada L7R 3Y3 Ph: 905-632-2996 Fax: 905-632-5946 Steve_A@Gennum.Com Website: www.gennum.com Bob Oliviera, Ph.D. Hearing Components Inc. 420 Hayward Ave. Oakdale, MN 55128 Ph - 651-739-9427 Fax: 651-735-2790 rjoliveira@aol.com

Steve Hannibal Beltone Electronics Corp 4201 W Victoria St, Chicago, IL 60646-6700 Ph: 800-621-1275 Fax: 773-583-4681 hannibals@beltone.com Website: www.beltone.com Russ Thoma Etymotic Research 61 Martin Lane Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Ph: 847-228-0006 Fax: 847-228-6836 r_thoma@etymotic.com Website: www.etymotic.com Ron Scicluna Argosy Electronics Inc. 10300 West 70th Street Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Phone: (612) 942-9232 Fax: (612) 942-0503 ron.scicluna@argosyhearing.com Website: www.argosyhearing.com Carl Sandrock Phonic Ear Inc. 3880 Cypress Dr Petaluma, CA 94954-7600 800-227-0735 Fax: 707-769-9624 carl_Sandrock@Phonicear.Com Website: www.phonicear.com Deborah Fuller Siemens 16 E. Piper Lane Prospect Heights, IL 60070 Ph: 800-333-9083 Fax: 847-808-1299 dfuller@siemens-hearing.com Website: www.siemens-hearing.com Charles Beatty Audex, A Division Of Audiometrics Inc 710 Standard St. Longview, TX 75604 Ph: 800-237-0716 Fax: 903-295-0310 cbeatty@audex.com Website: www.audex.com Charles Lazlo Assistive Listening Device Systems Inc. Unit 2 - 11220 Voyageur Way Richmond, BC, Canada V6X 3E1 Ph: 604-244-0269 Ext.203 800-665-2537 Fax: 604-270-6308 clazlo@alds.com Website: www.alds.com

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Product Consumers

The T²RERC has access to more than 80,000 consumers across the country who participate in the evaluation of new technologies as they are prepared for transfer into the assistive technology industry. In keeping with the T²RERC's commitment to protecting the privacy of the consumer community in which it works, participants have been identified by name only.

Gladys Challenor E. Elmhurst, NY Alice Dungan Philadelphia, PA Martin Goldstein New York, NY William McConeghey Media, PA Ronald Rau Bellport, NY Ronald Vickery Rome, GA Alford Wolf Williamsburg, VA

George DeVilbiss Falls Church, VA Inge Goldstein New York, NY Brian Logue New York, NY Lois O'Neill New York, NY Florence Steiger New York, NY Rainy Dae Wesel Dowingtown, PA

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Resource Providers

Robert V. Belenger Naval Undersea Warfare Center Code 2232, Building 1171 Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division 1176 Howell Street Newport, RI 02841 Phone: (401) 832-2856 Fax: (401) 832-2130 belenger@csd.npt.nuwc.navy.mil Frank Corso Frank Corso Assoc. 350 Jericho Turnpike Suite 105 Jericho, NY 11753 Ph: 516-827-1923 Fax: 516-333-9114

Dorry Tooker Northeast Federal Laboratory Consortium Office of Technology Transfer Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 475-D Upton, NY 11973 Ph: 516-344-2078 Fax: 516-344-3729 dory@bnl.gov Margaret McNamara University at Buffalo Department of Electrical Engineering Bonner Hall/Room 312 Box 601900 Buffalo, NY 14260-1900 Ph: 716-645-2422 ext 1216 Fax: 716-645-5964 mmcn@eng.buffalo.edu

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Researchers

Larry Humes Dept Speech And Hearing Sciences 200 S. Jordan Ave Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7002 Ph: 812-855-0285 or 3507 Fax: 812-855-5531 Humes@Indiana.edu Michael Valente Washington University School of Medicine Box 8115 660 South Euclid Avenue St Louis, Mo 63110 Ph: 314-362-7457 Fax: 314-367-7346 Valentem@msnotes.wustl.edu Victor Nedzelnitsky National Institute of Standards and Technology Sound Bldg. 233, Room A147 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001 Ph: 301/975-6638 Fax 301/417-0514 Vnedzel@Enh.Nist.Gov Website: www.nist.gov Stephanie Davidson Ohio State University Speech & Hearing Sciences 105 Pressey Hall 1070 Carmack Rd. Columbus, OH 43210 Ph: 614-292-1802 davidson+@osu.edu

Greg Flamme Wendell Johnson Speech & Hearing Center 200 Hawkins Drive Iowa City, IA 52242 Ph: 319-984-4461 Fax: 319-335-8851 gregory-flamme@uiowa.edu Carolyn Musket U Texas at Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders 1966 Inwood Rd Dallas, TX 75235 Ph: 214-905-3108 Fax:214-905-3006 Colleen Marie Noe Dept. of Veterans Affairs James H. Quillan VA Medical Center Audiology 126 Mountain Home, TN 37684 Ph: 423-926-1171 xt. 7553 colleen.noe@med.va.gov

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Advocates

Richard Carmen Auricle Ink Publishers P. O. Box 20607 Sedona, AZ 86341 Ph: 520-284-0860 Fax: 520-284-0860 rcarmen27@yahoo.com Website: www.hearingproblems.com Paula Bonillas Hearing Health Magazine P. O. Drawer V Ingleside, TX 78362- Ph: 361/776-7240 Ears2u@hearinghealthmag.com Website: www.hearinghealthmag.com Bill Mann RERC on Aging University at Buffalo 515 Kimball Tower Buffalo, NY 14214 Ph: 716-829-3141 Fax: 716-829-3217

Melanie Herzfeld Prohealthcare 2800 Marcus avenue, Suite 207 Lake Success, NY 11042 Ph: 516-622-3375 mherzfeld@prohealthcare.com David Baquis National Center on Assistive Technology Self-Help for Hard of Hearing 7910 Woodmont Ave Suite 1200 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 Ph: 301-657-2248 Fax: 301-913-9413 dbaquis@shhh.org Website: www.shhh.org David Kirkwood The Hearing Journal 2124 Broadway Suite 108 New York, NY 10023 Ph: 212-595-8925 Fax: 212-595-9214 dhkirkwood@mindspring.com

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