2025 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 9-11, 2025 • Pittsburgh, PA
DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER
Award Winner/Nominee Details 2025
Denise Eng
I would like to nominate Denise Eng for the Antonia Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence. Denise has dedicated her life to improving the lives of children with reduced hearing. She has a passion and enthusiasm for this work that truly inspires. Her clinical expertise is second to none. She makes a difference for one child at a time, one family at a time, and her influence has spread near and far.
Denise Fournier Eng, MA, CCC-SLP is a speech-language pathologist with the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and a member of the BCH Cochlear Implant Team. She has worked in private school programs for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children, public school settings, and in early intervention. She provides direct care for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. She is co-author of High and Appropriate Expectations for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: The Role of Assessment published in Odyssey Online (Szarkowski & Eng, December 2014). Raising the bar for the DHH children she serves has been the guiding principle in her practice.
Denise thinks big. She not only wants the best access for the children she works with, she wants to change systems to better serve all children with reduced hearing. Her ability to connect individuals in unique ways creates unexpected matches and results in innovative projects and solutions.
Denise has held instructor positions at Boston University and Emerson College. She has created and led professional development opportunities and parent support programming at Framingham State College, MA Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and regional, national and international conferences. She is a member of the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education/Massachusetts Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Steering Committee to influence long-standing change. She shares what she knows willingly: sharing with colleagues, parents, families, and professionals inside and outside of the field. She trains the next generation of speech-language pathologists who continue working in Deaf education and DHH specialty programs.
Denise is passionate about addressing issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion. She spearheaded an ASHA 2023 presentation on Access and Advocacy for DHH Students that highlights perspectives of DHH individuals' lived experience in school, work and community settings and examines the roles of parents, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and teachers of the Deaf as allies and advocates. The high school students and professional team will present again at the Visions of Community conference hosted by the Federation for Children with Special Needs on March 8, 2025. Then Denise will be off to Pittsburgh for EHDI! There she will continue to present, spread the EHDI word, mentor, and connect individuals along the way.
Denise has touched my family personally. She worked closely with my son, who was born profoundly deaf, and set him up for success in life. I will be forever grateful for the gift Denise is to me and to the EHDI community at large. I would appreciate your consideration of Denise for this prestigious award.