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developed my 5 Keys Communication program, and I share them with my audiences at every conference. The Toolbox is filled with wonderful resources and activities for every age group. The website is so user-friendly and the videos are all very helpful. Because I work with adult patients, I especially appreciate the Living Well With Hearing Loss tool. I love

Hands & Voices , an advocacy group for parents of Deaf and hard of hearing children, recently launched their new Post-Secondary Transitions Online Module for Parents. The resource is targeted at parents of teenagers who are deaf or hard of hearing moving on to higher education or out into the workforce. As part of the resource, Hands & Voices have included [...] who are deaf and hard of hearing and many of our parent leaders also reported the time of transition to be difficult to navigate. Hands & Voices utilized information from a group of experienced parent leaders to share what they found to be most difficult about the transition process and what information they wish they would have had to inform and create

with the child. A total of 92% of respondents stated that My World helped them achieve the goal of their session. Developed in 2011 by the Ida Institute in cooperation with a group of audiologists, My World uses play theory to help children describe their experiences with hearing loss. The tool is designed as a board game and allows children to act out

strengthen the patients’ perspective.” Understand, Explore, Create The seminar was conducted as a collaborative innovation process, alternating between creative exercises and group work, ethnographic videos and plenary sessions. “Our approach to innovation is inspired by design thinking,” explains Lise Lotte. “Together with the participants, we work to

Ida Institute is pleased to announce its newest partnership with US hearing loss consumer group, Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) . The partnership is a component of Ida’s collaborative approach to person-centered hearing rehabilitation. It is also part of the institute’s new overall strategy to establish partnerships with key stakeholders

their answers, which included sharing their most challenging situations and the strategies they would use to cope in those situations. Both the group leaders and the teens found the tools to be useful, with the group leaders commenting that the tools saved time because the teens came in with prepared answers. They also highlighted that teens and tweens could

free or low cost. As part of the group that developed our Tinnitus Thermometer at an Ida seminar, why did you develop it as you did and what makes it useful? We have a number of questionnaires we use to monitor how the patient is doing with their tinnitus over time; however they can be lengthy – 25-100 questions. As a group, we thought it would be nice

Christine Hunter is the president of patient advocacy group SHHH in Australia . At Ida’s recent seminar, “The Hearing Journey: What Matters to You?” Christine was able to offer a unique perspective as both a patient advocate and a person with hearing loss herself. We asked Christine to share her experiences growing up with hearing loss, her motivation [...] sounds that I hadn’t heard before such as the birds tweeting in the trees around our home, leaves rustling and my children’s breathing. I felt I was able to be more part of group conversations, and for the first time I realized what I had been missing. That one hearing aid also provided me with the confidence to undertake a casual night course of study [...] to say that it was challenging as well as rigorous, but I had full support from my husband and family and we managed to make it work. I was also fortunate to team up with a group of other mature age students who had begun the course at the same time and we supported each other throughout those years. One had been a stenographer and her shorthand skills

Published: 12-03-2018 12:51

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Published: 24-08-2018 17:30

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