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Ida Fellow Maria Hoff recently used the Ida Institute’s GROUP tool to introduce the concept of group AR to students in her rehabilitation and counseling course at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

For students in the BSc audiology program, Maria Hoff’s course marks their introduction to rehabilitation and counseling methods. Many of the students have yet to conduct an externship in a clinic and are eager to see how the relationship between patients and clinicians takes shape in real-life.

To expose students to group AR, Maria dedicated an entire lecture of the counseling course to group aural rehabilitation. She utilized the GROUP tool to show them what a group AR session really looks like.

“The videos on the clinician, patient, and student perspective of group AR in the GROUP tool...

The Ida Institute would like to announce the release of its newest online tool for hearing care professionals: Time and Talk.

Developed in collaboration with Ida Fellows Lesley Jones, Amr El Rafaie, and Joy Rosenberg, Time and Talk is a method for teaching communication skills to practicing and student hearing care professionals. The method uses scenarios and role-plays of clinical situations to teach how to integrate process skills with practical clinical skills in the audiological appointment. Participants learn communication skills as they attempt to conduct tasks and fulfill requirements during mock consultation sessions.

"Often audiologists are worrying about the time that they have available to them and the number of tasks that they have to complete, because they have to do...

The Audiology Section at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa, Florida, has integrated the Ida Motivation Tools into their case history form. This represents an innovative way of integrating the Ida tools into current clinical procedures.

Questions from the Line and the Circle are found on the case history form that is mailed to every audiology patient at the Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, Florida. The patient fills out the form at home before their appointment and is encouraged to consult with their spouse and family as they answer the questions.

At the consultation session, audiologists ask follow-up questions to explore why the patient answered the questions as they did. This discussion helps shed light on the patient's motivation and ambivalence to taking action on their...

In the March/April edition of Audiology Today, Ida Fellows John Greer Clark and Kristina English analyze missed opportunities during consultations that often lead patients to take a 'less-than-favorable' view of the services provided.

Clark and English contend that instead of being an add-on service, audiologic counseling should be viewed as a key component to service delivery that can improve patient perceptions of their care and heighten the success of the rehabilitation process. In this way, patient-sensitive conversations play a key part in effective counseling. They can help professionals show their acceptance of patients as they manage their personal hearing loss journey. These conversations also can include reflective listening to get a more well-rounded understanding of the...

Plural Publishing recently released the Second Edition of Adult Audiologic Rehabilitation edited by Ida Fellows Joseph Montano and Jaclyn B. Spitzer. This impressive volume covers topics that represent the current state of AR, including the psychological impact of hearing loss, assessment strategies, current technologies, treatment methodologies, and research needs. 

The book places a powerful emphasis on the information necessary to develop excellence in counseling and to apply a client-centered approach to AR. 

"An underlying concept of this text is that AR is an expanding aspect of our discipline" states Montano and Spitzer in the book's introduction. "The role of technology in the current practice of AR is apparent, but, as we see in our text, it should be only a means, rather than...

At the 2013 AAA Conference, the Ida Institute introduced the three winning ideas that captured top honors in Ideas, Speak up - Action and Awareness for Hearing Loss, the worldwide open innovation competition for ideas with the potential to create public awareness of hearing loss.

At a well attended gala celebration, Ida Institute managing director Lise Lotte Bundesen and Niels Boserup, chairman of the Oticon Foundation, unveiled the three winners: Hearing Tone Test Card, a wallet-sized hearing checker; Look Who's Hearing, a public art initiative that fits famous sculptures with hearing aids; and The Three Monkeys: Eyes Checked. Teeth Checked. Hearing Checked, a clever mnemonic that promotes regular hearing checks.

"We recognize that to continue the good work of this project and to...

Congratulations to Ida Advisory Board Chairman Louise Hickson for receiving the American Academy of Audiology International Award for 2013 for her many accomplishments in the fields of hearing science and audiology.

The American Academy of Audiology established an annual International award to honor and recognize achievements of international significance in audiology by an audiologist, hearing scientist or audiological physician.

Professor Hickson fits the bill, having made significant contributions to enhancing the lives of hearing-impaired individuals and their families, to increasing our scientific knowledge, and to support the future careers of her postgraduate students who have benefited from her mentoring and guidance.

Her clinical impacts are highlighted in the adoption of her...

After attending Ida's seminar series on Managing Change in 2012, Audiologist Anna Artursson introduced the Ida Motivation Tools to her colleagues at Audionomerna, a private clinic chain with 33 locations throughout Sweden. Due to her continued support and motivation, many of her colleagues are now using the tools with patients on a daily basis. 

Artursson is the clinical manager of the Audionomerna clinic in Karlstad, Sweden. Each year, Audionomerna audiologists from regional clinics throughout Sweden get together in one location for professional development courses and lectures. At last year's team meeting in August, 2012, Artursson translated the Line and the Box into Swedish and conducted a lecture on the Ida Motivation Tools.

"I was surprised how motivated my colleagues were to...

We have a lot of great events planned for the American Academy of Audiology Conference in Anaheim, California. If you plan to attend, we look forward to seeing you there!

Here is an overview of Ida Institute related events at the conference:

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

3:45PM - 4:45PM: Learning Module: Facilitate an Understanding of Hearing Loss from the Child's Point of View

Session Number: LM027
Location: 208B
CE Hours: .1
Presenters: Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhD, University of Colorado; Melanie Gregory, AUD, Ida Institute

Abstract: The child's perspective is essential when addressing the challenges of hearing loss. Incorporating this perspective makes them an active participant in the rehabilitation process.The My World tool from the Ida Institute facilitates an understanding of...

The audiology team in Nottingham, UK, won the British Academy of Audiology poster prize for their account of the team's experience implementing the Ida Motivation Tools into their NHS audiology practice.

Last year, the Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit collaborated with the Nottingham Audiology Services and the Ida Institute to conduct an intensive, 3-day workshop on the Ida Motivation Tools. The workshop aimed to assess the feasibility of implementing the Motivation Tools within NHS clinics, identify the challenges of applying Motivational Engagement methods, and develop an ethnographic documentary to support the training of other audiologists.

Over the course of three days, each member of the audiology team applied the Ida Motivation Tools in three hearing aid fitting...