{"id":903,"date":"2026-07-09T16:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/?page_id=903"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:45:11","slug":"iaarc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/iaarc\/","title":{"rendered":"The 13th International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hrc\/files\/2026\/07\/IAARC13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"168\" class=\"wp-image-909 size-full aligncenter\" \/><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Boston University<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences &amp; Engineering<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Boston, MA<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>June 7 \u2013 8, 2027<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Conference has been held biannually since its first meeting in Portland, Maine, in 2001, and we are very happy to announce that the next meeting of this series will take place in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference will be held on June 7 -8, 2027, at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the Thirteenth International Adult AR Conference will be <strong>\u201cBridge to the Future: Transforming Hearing Healthcare by Connecting Science, Technology, Clinical Practice, and the Lived Experience.\u201d<\/strong> The conference will feature presentations by our invited speakers, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/speech-language-hearing.uconn.edu\/person\/kathleen-cienkowski\/\">Kathy Cienkowski<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drkeithdarrow.com\/\">Keith Darrow<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/livingwithhearingloss.com\/\">Shari Eberts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We are calling for papers that embrace this theme of transforming the adult aural rehabilitation experience. We welcome papers from representatives of laboratories, clinics, and educational facilities. The conference organizers also strongly support submissions from members of the hearing loss community. We invite all contributions on innovations in this increasingly important area.\u00a0 The conference will also include panel discussions around this theme which will include professionals and consumers.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Call For Papers\/Posters<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If you would like to give an oral presentation, or present a poster at The Thirteenth International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Conference, please email a summary of your proposal to Geoff Plant (<a href=\"mailto:hearf@aol.com\">hearf@aol.com<\/a>) by <strong>December 4, <\/strong><strong>2026<\/strong>. Authors will be notified of acceptance on or before <strong>January 8, 2027<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal should be a single-spaced <strong>Microsoft Word document<\/strong> using the <strong>Arial font (12 point)<\/strong>, and include the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Preferred Format: Oral presentation <\/strong>or<strong> poster<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Title of presentation\/poster<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Names of all authors<\/strong> (please do not include academic degrees or titles)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Affiliations of all authors<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A short summary of the proposed<\/strong> <strong>presentation\/poster<\/strong> (please do not exceed 500 words)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Name and email address of person to be contacted regarding the presentation<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Preferred time for oral presentations <\/strong>(20 or 30 minutes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences &amp; Engineering Boston, MA June 7 \u2013 8, 2027 The International Adult Aural Rehabilitation Conference has been held biannually since its first meeting in Portland, Maine, in 2001, and we are very happy to announce that the next meeting of this series will take place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7788,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}