OCCUPATIONS , POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

Farming 1940-1944
Radar and Communication Technology Royal Air Force 1944-1946
Assistant Teacher, Maud Maxfield School for the Deaf, Sheffield, England 1951-1955
Director, Deaf Education Services, Reading, England 1955-1963
Principal, Montreal Oral School for the Deaf 1963-1966
Lecturer, School of Human Communication Disorders, McGill University 1963-1966
Assistant Professor, in Graduate Studies, McGill University 1968-1970
Associate Professor, in Graduate Studies, McGill University 1970 -1973
Chairman, School of Human Communication Disorders, McGill University 1970-1975
Director, Division of Speech and Hearing, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal 1970-1971
Director, Division of Audiology, Montreal Children's Hospital 1972-1974
Director, McGill University Project for Deaf Children 1966-1984
Professor, Graduate Studies in Aural Habilitation, McGill University 1973-1984
Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario 1984-1991
Lecturer in Special Education, Cambridge and Reading Institutes of Education, England 1955-1962
President, British Society of Teachers of the Deaf 1957-1959
Honorary Director, OIRA and IDEAV (Centres for Deaf Children, Mexico City) 1963-2003
Principal Investigator, Canadian National Health Grant 604-7-725 on Identification and Management of Deafness in Early Infancy 1966-1974
President, Speech and Hearing Society, Province of Quebec 1970-1971
Member, Committee on International Affairs, American Speech and Hearing Association 1971-1973
Member, Executive Council, Canadian National Institute for the Deaf 1971-1973
Editorial Consultant, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 1971-1983
Reviewer, Volta Review 1971
Member, NAS-NRC Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biomechanics 1973-1989
Chairman, Counseil consultatif du Quebec pour la deficience auditive
Editorial Consultant, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 1974-1982
Member, Editorial Policy Board, Journal of American Audiology Society 1974-1983
Editorial Consultant, Journal of Human Communication 1975-1985
Member, Board of Directors, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf 1978-1988
Member, Committee on Professional Preparation and Certification, Council on Education of the Deaf l978-1989
Associate Editor, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 1978-1980
Reviewer, Canadian National Health Grants Committee 1968-1991
Member, Honorary Board of Directors, Auditory Educational
Clinic for the Hearing Impaired, Atlanta, Georgia 1979-1991
Member, Honorary Editorial Board, New York League for the Hard of Hearing 1982-1991
Consultant, House Ear Institute Los Angeles CA 1982-1991
Member, National Health and Medical Research Council Panel of Independent Assessors, Commonwealth of Australia 1982-present
President, A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf 1984-1986
Member, Regional Hospital Board, London ON. 1984-1990
Member, Board of Directors, A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf 1986-1988
Founding Member, Auditory Verbal International (AVI) 1984
Honorary Board Member Auditory Verbal International 1995-present
Consultant on Hearing Impairment in Children, AVIsrael 1994-present.

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Honors of the Canadian Speech and Hearing Association 1978
J Jonas Award in Rehabilitation, New York League for the Hard of Hearing 1978
Arkansas Traveller Awarded by Governor Bill Clinton 1980
Teacher of the Year, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf 1981
Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 1982
Volta Award, Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf 1990
Ling Scholarship established, University of Western Ontario 1991
Appointed as an Officer, Order of Canada 1999
Daniel Ling Clinic Founded in Haifa, Israel in my honour 2000
Lifetime Achievement Award, American Auditory Society 2001
Lifetime Achievement Award, Auditory Verbal International 2002
Annual Scholarship for Research founded in my honor 2002

PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS:

Over the years 1974--2003, Dr. Ling has presented about 200 workshops, lectures or short courses in various countries including many parts of Australia, all the provinces of Canada, and in England, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, South America, Sweden, Taiwan, and the U.S.A. He currently provides 3-4 workshops/lectures annually in various cities across the U.S.A. These are often known as “Ling Regional Workshops” and are concerned with Strategies and Technologies for Spoken Language Development in Hearing-Impaired Children presented for the benefit of Auditory-Verbal International, a Washington-based organisation for hearing-impaired children and their parents.