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Table of PowerPoint presentations

The congress organisors would like to thank the generous support from each of the presenters

(Note to presenters: If your PowerPoint is not included, and you wish to add it to the list, please email simon.cooper@deafsq.org.au):

Presenter

PowerPoints

Wednesday
10.00-11.00
Andy Cornes 		Deaf children and emotional well-being —an overview

11.30-12.05
Johannes Fellinger

 Mental health and language in deaf children and adolescents (17.5MB)
11.30-12.05
Gene Reardon & Sharon Ewing		 Family parenting implications of newborn hearing screening
11.30-12.05
Cassandra Harvey		 A reflective essay on socialisation, deafness and mental illness
12.05-12.40
Lori Day		 Hearing parents of deaf children—Attachment, parental responses to diagnosis and perceptions of health professionals
12.05-12.40
Maria Remine		 The Relationship between school functioning and selfconcept in Australian deaf adolescents
12.05-12.40
Benito Estrada Arada		 Mental Health and Deafness—Evaluation and psychological intervention of Mexican Deaf people

2.30-3.05
Siew Koo

 Needs of families of children with congenital hearing loss diagnosed through the SWIS-H (State-wide Infant Screening- Hearing) program
2.30-3.05
Cathy Chovaz		 Development of the Deaf Kids Mental Health Clinic—the first of its kind in Canada
2.30-3.05
Sarah Suter		 The growth of sexual understanding in deaf children and teenagers
3.05-3.40
Joan Birch, Tina Carter and Trisha Balharrie		 Emotional adjustment and life long empowerment
3.05-3.40
Mary Flaherty		 What we can learn from hearing parents of deaf children
3.05-3.40
Joanna Kobosko		 Deaf adolescent’s identity and oral vs. sign language communication
4.00-5.00
Renee Punch		 Parental stress in rehabilitation of children with a cochlear implant

Thursday
9.00-10.00
Yasmin Kovic		 The Safe Program—a preventative mental health program for children and adolescents
10.00-10.35
Ruth Samak		 Transitions of Adolescence—Transitions in adolescence
10.00-10.35
Gabriel Lomas		 The Role of Public School Counsellors for the Deaf in the United States (needs PowerPoint 2007, or reader: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074)
10.00-10.35
Mary Tass		 Depression and anxiety in deafblind people
10.35-11.10
Kylie Miers, Laura Jayne Noble, Louise Sutton, Emma Oliver, Debra Swan		 Connected youth resilience and prevention—deaf youth
developing positive self identities and wellbeing
10.35-11.10
Hannah Worthley		 Reducing the impact of mental health in the lives of Deaf
people through voluntary work placements’
10.35-11.10
Kathleen Donnelly-Wijting		 HIV/AIDS and Deafness—Lessons learned from the 3rd
Mental Health and Deafness Congress Study
11.40-12.15
Ryan Teuma		 A case study: the sexual abuse of a deaf child – learning
for parents, educators, law enforcement, the justice system,
interpreters and psycholigists.
11.40-12.15
Anthea Scott		 Comfortable in two worlds—A preliminary investigation into
the perceptions of identity held by deaf young adults
11.40-12.15
William Noble		 Psychosocial handicaps in adults whose hearing is impaired
12.15-12.50
Jennifer D’Ath		 The Indigenous Deaf Well-being Project
12.15-12.50
Carla Shird and Kyle Clark		 Providing substance abuse counselling to deaf and hard of
hearing clients
12.15-12.50
Jody Saxton-Barney		 Deaf indigenous peoples living healthy culture
4.15-5.00
Damien Howard		 Anxiety, depression and widespread adult Indigenous hearing
loss

Friday
9.00-10.00
Margaret Du Feu		 Deaf Adults—developing services in Northern Ireland and the
Republic of Ireland
10.00-10.35
Paul Jacobs		 Deafness and psychosocial skills, social and career
10.00-10.35
Helen Kennedy		 Interpreting in Mental Health—The Singularity of Experience
10.00-10.35
Mary Matthews		 Bringing Life Back To Living—The Pygmalion Story
10.35-11.10
Karli Dettman		 Email support group
10.35-11.10
Dianne Briffa		 A Case Study—A new life due to a culturally appropriate
model of mental health service provision
10.35-11.10
Heather Horton		 Cognition and functional outcome among deaf and hearing
people with schizophrenia
11.40-12.15
Lisa-Jane Moody		 Enhancing access to Mental Health First Aid (MHFA ) training
for the Deaf
11.40-12.15
Wayne Reynolds		 Confronting the issues of deafness—A pathway to social and
emotional well-being
11.40-12.15
Rebecca Reedman and Louise Munro		 The effectiveness of constructionist therapy with Deaf clients

12.15-12.50
Petra Svab and Jasmin Bellos

 Communication is the key
12.15-12.50
Bamini Gopinath		 Depressive symptoms among older hearing impaired
adults— the Blue Mountains Study
12.15-12.50
Rebecca Reedman and Eve Hedley		 Factors found to enhance the therapeutic relationship when
working in a Deafness and Mental Health clinical setting
3.30-4.15
Ines Sleeboom-van Raaij		 European approach with deaf adults, clinical and social
4.15-5.00
Robert Pollard		 Mental health disparities affecting the Deaf population—A
public health perspective and an overview of Congress theme
—‘A Life to be Lived’