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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...

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...

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...

Ida Fellow Beth Humphrey has integrated the Ida University Course into the Audiology Counseling Course at the University of Tennessee. Her students find that the course provides valuable practical counseling techniques that can be directly applied to their future work in the clinic.

As students are exposed to the counseling skills in the Ida University Course, a whole new world of audiology is opened up for them, according to Assistant Clinical Professor Beth Humphrey. Most students in the counseling course are in the process of completing or have completed their supervised clinical appointments. The Ida course expands the students' understanding of their role as an audiologist and reinforces the importance of good communication skills during consultation sessions.

“I believe the course...

In 2012, the Ida Institute launched a new training program to expand the global reach and impact of our tools and methods. The Train the Trainer seminars prepare people to create and deliver their own training programs on the Ida Motivation Tools: the Line, the Box, and the Circle.

Alex Griffiths-Brown from Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital in Shropshire, United Kingdom, participated in our first Train the Trainer seminar. After attending, she went back to her clinic and developed a one-day training day on the Ida Motivation Tools for the audiology staff with colleague Marsha Addison. Alex and Marsha collaborated to create an exciting poster about their Rehabilitation Training Day. The poster was presented at the British Academy of Audiology (BAA) Conference in November, 2012.

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In partnership with Audiology Online, the Ida Institute is happy to present a free, online course conducted by Ida Advisory Board Co-Chair Louise Hickson on Evidence-Based Approaches to Rehabilitation Options for Adults with Hearing Loss.

The course can be accessed by visiting the Audiology Online Website.

In the course, Louise Hickson provides an overview of clinical research on shared decision making and how audiologists present intervention options to adults seeking to address their hearing loss for the first time. She suggests that the Ida Motivation Tools (The Line, The Box, and The Circle) can help audiologists manage the process of shared decision making and help clients choose appropriate rehabilitation options.

The course begins by exploring the concept of shared decision...

Private hearing health care clinics can benefit significantly by integrating Ida’s Motivation Tools (the Line, the Box, and the Circle) into their daily practice, according to David Rist, Head of Development and Training at Hidden Hearing, a private retailer of hearing instruments and services in the United Kingdom.

According to David Rist, the Motivation Tools can assist both new and experienced dispensers to open meaningful, constructive conversations with their clients. Such conversations can help clients explore personal barriers to taking action and obtaining hearing instruments. In this way, dispensers can actively engage clients and coach them through their change process while demonstrating respect and empathy.

“Integrating the Ida Motivational Tools into our procedures will be...

This September, the Ida Institute will release the G.R.O.U.P. (the Group Rehabilitation Online Utility Pack): an online tool to help hearing care professionals develop and conduct their own Group AR program. The online tool will also be presented at the 15th Annual Canadian Academy of Audiology Conference and Exhibition in October 2012.

Group aural/audiological rehabilitation is an effective and efficient way to help hearing-impaired persons and their communication partners adjust to their hearing loss, make the best use of hearing aids, and learn useful communication skills.

The G.R.O.U.P. tool contains a combination of videos of real-life Group AR sessions and content written by Group AR experts. The tool includes a Quick Start Guide that contains all of the information one would need...

The Ida Institute has launched a working group consisting of pediatric audiologists from around the world to create guidance materials for the My World pediatric tool. The support materials will provide helpful suggestions and guidance on how to use the tool in different situations, making the tool even more user-friendly.

The My World pediatric audiology tool helps facilitate an understanding of hearing loss from the child’s point of view. By placing small, movable figures on three boards depicting a school, playground, and home setting, children can externalize their hearing loss and describe communication situations in a concrete fashion with a hearing care professional

Since the launch of the My World tool in December 2011, we have received positive feedback on the tool at workshops...