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The February 2012 issue of Seminars in Hearing focuses entirely on the work, principles and tools of the Ida Institute. The issue contains 10 articles written by Ida US Academic Panel members and others on the benefits of patient centered care practices in the field of audiology.

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.

Check out our special section in the August 2011 edition of Hearing Review, which is now available online. The “Living Well with Hearing Loss” series focuses on the balance between traditional patient-counseling techniques and new approaches that focuses on the human dynamics of hearing loss. The concepts and strategies presented in the series provide practical ways for hearing health care professionals to provide patient-centered care.

Our Senior Audiologist, Melanie Gregory, has recently published an article in the May 2011 issue of Hearing Journal. The article explores how tools can help audiologists describe a person's hearing loss in terms of the communication difficulties the patient may be experiencing with their communication partners. The term 'communication partner' was chosen over the more commonly used 'significant other' because it is more inclusive and does not assume that the hearing loss is just one person's problem. To read this fantastic article, please check it out here on the Hearing Journal website.

Our student helper and anthropology student Therese Kjellerup Thorstholm has written an article in the January 2011 issue of the Danish magazine Hørelsen (Hearing) about the lack of hearing loss prevention programs targeted at young people in the Danish society.

She exemplifies how sound from MP3 players is something that we can control ourselves unlike other sounds from our surroundings. Even though many know how damaging it can be, they still turn up the volume. The lack of initiatives of prevention is surprising compared to how many published researches show the increase of young people with hearing loss caused by mp3 players. The article is written in Danish.

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