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als from around the world attended the first seminar in our three-part series titled: Patient-Centered Care: Fluff, Fact, or Fiction. This February, another multi-national group of hearing care professionals will travel to Denmark to partake in our second seminar and further explore the topic of patient-centered care. During January’s seminar, we examined [...] tered care in daily practice. On 24 February, we will commence our second seminar. We look forward to reexamining the concept of patient-centered care with an entirely new group of hearing care professionals. Applying different perspectives to the same topic over the course of three seminars serves to enrich our understanding of the topic. By the end

An international group of hearing care professionals from 11 different countries, spanning 5 continents, will attend Ida’s upcoming seminar on 21 January titled “ Patient-Centered Care: Fluff, Fact or Fiction .” For each Ida seminar series, we aim to bring together a diverse group of participants from various backgrounds and locations. During the seminar [...] perspectives on the given topic. We consider our participants the experts. Their stories and experiences serve as the starting point for our collaborative process. A diverse group of participants helps the seminar bring fresh light on existing knowledge and explore uncharted territory. With our participant list finalized, we are very excited about our

participants gave excellent feedback and suggestions. In the GROUP discussion, participants offered practical suggestions for setting up a successful Group AR program. After one participant expressed concern about the cost of using CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) so group members could fully participate in a discussion, another individual [...] again represented and hosted 2 workshops to introduce the GROUP and Patient Motivation tools. Ida audiologist Regitze Willemoës joined Ida Fellows, Professors Jean-Pierre Gagné, Joseph Montano, and Jill Preminger, to inspire and share knowledge about the Ida Tools with a motivated and keen group of participants. Both workshops were energetic and interactive [...] improves communication and may eliminate the need for expensive Hearing Assistive Technologies (HAT’s).” Another participant offered advice regarding activities to include in Group AR and to “consider memory and mobility issues of communication partners in communication strategy activities. For example, some spouses say that the reason they talk to their

communication skills required to practice successfully in a patient-centered way,” says Ida Institute Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. “In collaboration with an outstanding group of educators and clinicians from the Ida Network, we identified a need to provide support for clinicians new to the supervisory role as well as those who simply wanted to remain

Collaboration: G.R.O.U.P: -- The Group Rehabilitation Online Utility Pack" at the recent Canadian Academy of Audiology Conference & Exhibition, Ottawa, Ontario. Over 300 audiologists from across Canada had the opportunity to network and learn from an esteemed list of speakers from within the Audiology world and over 75 joined the G.R.O.U.P Workshop. The [...] participants about Group AR and the goal was to address each and every one in the session. The main success criteria was to involve, engage and inspire the participants as much as possible and the team, experienced veterans of Group AR, fully understood the difficulties and issues and were on board to discuss the many concerns about Group AR put forward [...] shown that Group AR programs can be an effective way of increasing both hearing aid usage and overall patient satisfaction. By attending group sessions, persons with hearing loss and their communication partners can meet individuals who have experienced many of the same challenges and issues regarding living with hearing loss. In this way, Group AR can

to problem-solve difficult cases were key! After each session, the 2nd year Audiology students would share/reflect their clinical experiences that day and would discuss as a group ‘reflection after action’ what could have been done differently, how they could incorporate reflection before action and reflection in action in future encounters. Dr. Arnold [...] materials and thoroughly enjoyed utilizing the Ida ethnographic videos, in addition to re-enacting the role-playing activities. The students were broken into groups and each group was given a different dilemma card to re-enact throughout the semester. "Material was very interesting. Great class!" said one of the students. "Every class [is] interesting [...] helps me remember what we've learned when I feel engaged." For 3 meetings, Dr. Arnold used real patients with hearing loss. The class was broken down into small groups and each group was assigned a different patient. They spent the first meeting completing a full case history using the Patient Motivation and Communication Partners tools and then they came

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, the Ida Institute, the BSA Adult Rehabilitation Special Interest Group, the BSA Balance Interest Group, and members of the wider audiological community. The guidance recommends that effective rehabilitation is best achieved through a process that goes beyond

inspire participants to create innovative and creative ideas to raise awareness for hearing loss. “This was a fantastic opportunity for the Ida Institute to reach out to a group of hearing care professionals in Denmark that share our values and our approach to audiological rehabilitation, focusing on the psychosocial aspects of hearing loss,” states

participants to develop an idea that leverages technology to inspire people to take action and raise public awareness for hearing loss. A group from Denmark won the mini-competition with their idea: “Make it a Gadget." The group proposes reconceptualizing hearing aids as gadgets that are useful for everyone. This could change the public’s perception of hearing [...] their hearing. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with three members of the winning group (from left to right: Miguel Kjaedegaard Carvalho, Nicolai Bentzen, and Charlotte Branth Claussen) to discuss their idea. Inspiration for the idea stemmed from the group’s desire to radically change the public’s current perception of hearing aids. Instead of [...] tasks in your daily life. And people integrate their smartphone into their daily lives. Why can’t you incorporate your hearing aid in the same way?” asks group member Nicolai Bentzen. According to the group, hearing aids could do much more than just improve someone’s hearing. The hearing aid could be seamlessly connected to a smartphone, allowing the user

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 [...] 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 to quickly get going and start a Group AR program. The tool also contains an extensive Resource [...] body of evidence that supports the implementation of Group AR for hearing impaired individuals and their communication partners. Research has shown that Group AR programs can be a very effective method to increase both hearing aid usage and overall patient satisfaction. Participants who attend group AR sessions have been found to return fewer hearing