What Professional Resources and Events Does AG Bell Offer?

AG Bell (the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) serves hearing loss professionals through a dedicated Professionals section on agbell.org, combining continuing education events, a research bibliography, and publications. If you are an audiologist, speech-language pathologist, teacher of the deaf, or early intervention specialist, the most relevant entry points are the Symposium, the Fall Forum, the Hearing Loss Research Bibliography, and Volta Voices. The sections below describe what each offers and how to use them.

Professional events: Symposium and Fall Forum

AG Bell runs two recurring professional gatherings, each with its own supporting materials on the site.

Symposium

The Symposium is AG Bell's large professional conference. The site organizes it into several parts:

• Symposium 2026 – the upcoming event's main page
• Symposium On-Demand – recorded sessions available after the event
• Schedule – the session lineup
• FAQs – practical attendance questions
• Past Symposiums – an archive of previous years

If you cannot attend in person, the On-Demand section is the practical route to the same content. Check the Schedule page first to confirm which sessions interest you, then look for those sessions in the On-Demand library.

Fall Forum

The Fall Forum is a separate, smaller professional event with its own set of pages:

• Fall Forum – main event page
• Fall Forum CEUs – continuing education credit information
• Fall Forum FAQs – attendance and logistics questions

The dedicated CEUs page signals that the Fall Forum is structured around earning continuing education units. If CEU credit is your reason for attending, start with that page rather than the general event page.

Research and publications

Hearing Loss Research Bibliography

AG Bell maintains a Hearing Loss Research Bibliography under its Professionals section. This is a curated reference list rather than a database you search by keyword, so treat it as a starting point for locating studies in the field and then follow citations to the original sources.

Volta Voices

Volta Voices is AG Bell's publication, listed in the Professionals navigation. It is the organization's channel for written content aimed at professionals and families in the hearing loss community.

How to join the professional community

AG Bell's Professionals area sits alongside its family-facing sections, and participation runs through the same membership structure used across the organization:

1. Go to Join Us to see membership options.
2. Use Subscribe to Updates if you want event and publication announcements before committing to membership.
3. Once a member, the Events page is where Symposium and Fall Forum registration is organized.

The site also lists AG Bell Town Hall Meetings under its About section, which are open informational sessions rather than professional CEU events.

Quick reference

Practical notes

• The Symposium and Fall Forum are distinct events with separate pages, schedules, and FAQ sets — do not assume one registration covers both.
• CEU details are published specifically for the Fall Forum; if credits matter to your license or certification, verify them on the CEUs page before registering.
• On-Demand content is the fallback for sessions you miss, but availability depends on what AG Bell has posted, so confirm a specific session appears there before relying on it.
• For anything not covered by the FAQ pages, the site's Parent Support Line (1-202-204-4680, [email protected]) is the listed contact point, though it is oriented toward families rather than professional inquiries.