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in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and their Families” seminar in April 2015. The Journey of Life tool presents hearing impairment as a lifelong journey with different milestones to be reached and passed through. The tool will enable hearing care professionals to work with parents and children to set goals, identify the steps required [...] required to reach those goals, and decide with parents and children what they wish to do in order to take those steps. The tool will come with documentation forms to record the discussions and decisions. This pediatric tool will be intended for use with children ages 0-12. It will give families autonomy over the child’s journey, helping them to make decisions

Published: 27-07-2016 15:48

online resources for children, young adults, and their families to help them manage transitions Key insights into the needs of children and their families to provide appropriate and timely support A clinical framework based on the principles of self-determination Growing Up with Hearing Loss contents Why this tool? For children and young adults with [...] Up with Hearing Loss is an interactive platform to help children and young adults with hearing loss and their families successfully manage key transitions and use them as opportunities to learn, grow, and discover new things about themselves and the world. What are the benefits? Enables children and young adults with hearing loss and their families to: [...] offers an effective way to help children and young adults reflect on how they are doing and where they are headed. You can use this information to structure conversations in the appointment and explore effective next steps and strategies with them. Activities up to age 9 are written for parents to complete with their children. Activities for ages 9 and up

member Christine Yoshinaga-Itano chaired and presented on the final session of the week, looking at relationship between language and social skills of deaf and hard of hearing children aged 3-5 years. We are honored to continue to work with such an esteemed group of professionals, and are always excited to learn about their work. Thank you to our collaborators

web editor Amanda Farah Cox visited Laycock Primary School in London, Grantham College in Grantham, and met with recent graduates at the Ear Foundation. There they met with children ages 7-11, teenagers from 16-18, and young adults aged 23 and 24, who all shared their experiences in education with a hearing impairment. Ida also had the opportunity to [...] themselves and were able to reflect on their own experiences with transitions. The videos will be a part of the Transitions Management platform, which will help parents, children, and young adults prepare for the changes involved in moving from one school to another, or from school out into the work force. Thank you to everyone who made Ida’s visits

World of… : Short videos of different school, work, and play environments highlight noise in those spaces and the skills children and young adults will need to cope with the situations. Be Inspired by Others: Short videos in which children, their parents, and young adults reflect back on the experiences with hearing loss. They share their challenges and [...] The Ida Institute is proud to announce the launch of our Transitions Management framework. The framework offers a wealth of resources for children and young adults ages 3-18, focusing on the different milestones they cross. The framework is designed for young people to use at home – either on their own or with their families if they are younger – to [...] transitions, what they are currently doing well, and what new skills will help them as they go into new environments. We hope these resources will provide useful information to children, young adults, and their families in terms of skills that are needed, resources that should be available, and how young people can grow to become self-sufficient and successful

Day. In 2014, we ran a competition to find a new logo for World Hearing Day. The winning design was submitted by a team at the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Deaf Children . Visit the WHO website for more information and stay tuned to Ida for the launch of our campaign.

Ida Institute aimed at bringing My World to a broader audience, including speech-language therapists and teachers of the deaf. My World is an online tool designed to help children express their experiences with hearing loss, uncover information about the child’s communication patterns and develop strategies for daily challenges. The training sessions

give the presentation, “Helping Children and Teens Navigate Transitions Successfully.” The Transitions Management platform offers a suite of resources for children, young adults, and their families, to help them navigate shifts between different school levels and life after school. It looks at the milestones children with hearing loss should reach at [...] at different ages – including developmental, academic, and social – and suggests how children and their families can most effectively advocate for themselves to make these transitions smoothly. The hour and a half presentation will introduce the Transitions Management platform, how it was developed and how to use it, and will cover the basics of se

otoscopy, audiometrics, impression-taking and hearing aids calibration. My office is colorful. Blue and orange are the predominant colors. Since it is a space in which adults and children get together, we tried to make it fun and with a unique ambiance. What are some challenges of implementing person-centered care? Unfortunately, there is a lack of prevention

Published: 08-08-2017 15:33

Glasgow, UK Jessica Vitkovic, PhD, Soundfair Australia Tori Kok, MSc, University College London, UK Click here to read an article about this research. 'My Hearing Explained for Children': An evaluation of the tool in NHS clinical practice Jacqueline Young, PhD, University Hospitals Southampton NHS Trust, UK Luise Marino, PhD, University Hospitals Southampton