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This month we want to spotlight Ida Fellow Anita Erras. Anita will help present the Ida Motivation Tools at four upcoming European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) technical seminars in Germany. She will join Ida Learning Specialist Ena Nielsen in conducting workshops in Nürnberg (2 March), Lübeck (9 March), Dresden (16 March), and Köln (23 March).

The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) has invited the Ida Institute to present the Motivation Tools at four upcoming EUHA technical seminars this March. These seminars will help introduce hearing care professionals across Germany to Ida’s easy-to-implement tools and methods.

The Ida Tool Room is now an even more inviting space to explore our practical, easy-to-implement tools and methods. We have completely reorganized and redesigned the tool room to improve usability and functionality.

The tool room is the heart of the Ida website. It is where professionals from around the world can easily access Ida’s tools and methods. From the tool room, members of our online community can download electronic versions of the tools and watch instructional videos on how to implement the tools in their clinical practice.

In the new tool room, we have re-organized the tools into five thematic groups: Assessing Patient Motivation, Engaging Family and Friends, Self-Development in the Clinical Setting, Living Well and Pediatric Audiology. The tools are now grouped with sim

The Ida Institute plans to launch a new training program to expand the global reach and impact of Ida’s tools and methods. The Train the Trainer will prepare trainers to create and deliver their own training programs on the Ida Motivation tools: the Line, the Box, and the Circle.

Ida Anthropologist Kirsten Lauritsen and Ida Fellow Dr. Joseph Montano (Chief of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, Weill Cornell Medical Center) conducted a session on Motivational Engagement at the 2011 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention in San Diego, California.

Ida’s new My World pediatric counseling tool can help give the child a voice and ensure that they are an active participant in the rehabilitation process.

On 5 December, we launched the My World tool at a workshop in Manchester, UK. Over 40 hearing care professionals (HCPs) attended the interactive, collaborative workshop.

The My World tool can help facilitate an understanding of hearing loss from the child’s point of view. It can help the HCP uncover information about the child’s communication challenges, reinforce positive patterns, and formulate a strategy for coping with challenges.

The Ida Institute launched our new Living Well with Hearing Loss counseling tool at this year’s British Academy of Audiology (BAA) Conference in Wales.

The Ida Institute will participate in the upcoming 2011 British Academy of Audiology (BAA) Conference: “Inspired by Change”. The conference will take place from 9 - 11 November in Llandudno, Wales.

The 15th annual WebAward competition honored the Ida Institute website with a Standard of Excellence Award in the Non-Profit Category. This is the third year in a row that our website has been recognized by the world’s premier award competition for Web developers and marketers.

The Ida Motivation Tools, the Line, the Box, and the Circle, were met with great enthusiasm at our Motivational Engagement seminar series.