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audiology and what the enhanced role of the audiologist will be in the future. This included discussing changing trends in healthcare -- including technological advances – and how audiologists can continue to bring patient centered care into their practices. We tied in the concept of being “Future-Proof” with an advertisement for the hearing care manager [...] Now! Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The Friday morning session, called Creating the Future of Hearing Health Care, was a chance to share the work we’ve been doing with our Vision 2020 process. Speakers included Dr. Louise Hickson, Dr. John Greer Clark, and Dr. Patricia McCarthy, who were all participants in Vision 2020. Ida Managing Director Lise Lotte

transitional phases in a child's life and how to navigate them. The framework will also provide clinical support tools for hearing care professionals, children and young adults with hearing loss, and their families. The framework will help these different groups develop the knowledge and skills required for children and young adults to learn to manage t [...] For children with hearing loss and their families, however, there are additional challenges to navigate as well as the usual adjustments children go through as often as one year to the next. With this in mind, the Ida Institute has begun work on a new Transitions Management project. Focusing on the different social stages children and young adults move

use of clear, graphic language and color, which make it friendly and inviting. The panel included Bo Linnemann, founding partner and design director of internationally renowned design firm Kontrapunkt; Dr. Maria Alarcos Cieza Moreno, the coordinator for Disability and Rehabilitation at the World Health Organization; and Ida Institute Managing Director [...] December 2014 and January 2015. International Ear Care Day was established in 2007 following the First International Conference on Prevention and Rehabilitation of Hearing Impairment in Beijing. The date was selected as the shape of the numbers – 3.3 – resembles two ears. Every year, International Ear Care Day addresses a specific theme and carries out [...] out an extensive range of activities with broad participation in order to raise awareness of hearing care and the prevention of hearing loss. Congratulations to the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Deaf Children team!

teaches and researches at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where her focus is family centered care. She has a speech pathology background and obtained her PhD from the University of Queensland. Nerina has also been involved with Ida for years, participating in our Patient Centered Care: Fluff, Fact, or Fiction? seminar, and more recently [...] parison study, looking at improving rehabilitation outcomes for older adults with hearing loss and their family members using a family centered care approach. The team is Christopher Lind from Flinder’s University, Louise Hickson, Carly Meyer, and myself from UQ, and Mel Gregory, from the Ida Institute. One of my big roles while I’m here as the visiting [...] that’s available for family members of children with hearing loss. Even though we think naturally that children with hearing loss and their families will receive family centered care, I did another project, where, actually, they’re not necessarily. The parents are there because they have to be there and rarely were the intervention needs of the family members

how, as a team, children with cochlear implants and their families can smoothly navigate the journey from diagnosis, through implantation, and into rehabilitation. Our faculty members Sue Archbold, Ruth Bourne, Lone Percy-Smith, and Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, each gave presentations about treatment and rehabilitation programs for cochlear implant patients [...] needed support in the course of their children’s diagnoses, surgeries, and rehabilitations. This led to a discussion among participants about how audiologist can deliver the news of a child’s hearing loss to the parents with sensitivity, and help the parents manage their emotions and accept their children’s diagnoses. Participants teamed up for group exercises [...] seminar, “Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and their Families.” Twenty-one participants from 14 different countries attended the two-day conference in Skodsborg, Denmark, at the end of April. The multi-disciplinary group included audiologists, teachers of the deaf, surgeons, and a psychologist, all working

real audiologists and patients.” Ida has now begun identifying the state of change illustrated by the patients in each video, along with recommending tools that the films can be used to teach. Some of the patients filmed are asking questions about their hearing loss for the first time, and others have been living well with their hearing loss for years [...] films to our video library. The films, shot between 2009 and 2012, cover clinical session with patients around the United State and United Kingdom. The films cover a variety of clinician-patient experiences: There is a wholly-positive young man who comes in for an appointment with a hearing aid in mind; appointments that end abruptly when patients [...] patients get different news than they were expecting; a woman who shares her tips on how she introduces her hearing loss to new people and her different communication strategies; and different levels of readiness to take action across the spectrum in between. All films were all shot by Ida Institute Senior Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen. “We have found

mismatch between audiologist, client, and family member preferences for client- and family-centered care and current clinical practice. Data obtained from interviews with adults with hearing impairment have shown that developing a therapeutic relationship with clients and ensuring patients are informed and involved and treated as individuals are key aspects [...] British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA) Congress in Telford, UK. She presented research findings on behalf of the HEARing Cooperative Research Centre and teams from the University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne, including Professor Louise Hickson, Dr Nerina Scarinci, Dr Carly Meyer, Dr Katie Ekberg, and Dr Caitlin Grenness [...] data from interviews with audiologists, clients, and family members also showed that although family involvement in hearing rehabilitation is currently limited, each would value greater involvement of family members in order to develop a shared understanding and responsibility for managing hearing difficulties. The adoption of a family centered care

information on their hearing loss but had not consulted a hearing professional.” They used a questionnaire to rate the patients’ motivations, asking questions such as: “I’ve carefully thought about hearing aids and believe that getting them is the right thing to do” and “I personally believe that doing something about my hearing will improve my quality [...] success. Our Motivation Tools are our most popular, and are where hearing care professionals usually start with Ida. So it’s always gratifying to see studies that support our work. A new study confirms that patient motivation is related to adopting hearing aids. “Autonomous Motivation is Associated with Hearing Aid Adoption” appeared in the March issue of [...] e participants who had adopted hearing aids, meaning that they had been fitted with hearing aids within four to six months of completing the questionnaire. Their motivation levels were scored based on a points system, and it was found that for each one-point increase, participants were 55% more likely to adopt hearing aids. The study states, “Autonomous

2011, Hearing Health & Technology Matters has provided practical information on hearing loss for audiologists and consumers alike. The broad range of topics they cover has earned the site more than a million unique hits, and sees them expanding into different areas of hearing loss. Editor-in-chief David Kirkwood, who has been covering hearing care since [...] retirement on June 1, and will be succeeded by Wayne Staab. Before his departure, David and Wayne, along with Holly Hosford-Dunne, answered a few questions for us via email about how their site has grown in the last four years. Best of luck to David and the HHTM team! How did HHTM begin? The vision that inspired us to start Hearing Health & Technology [...] editors are audiologists: Dr. Wayne Staab, who focuses on hearing aids; Dr. Holly Hosford-Dunn, an authority on the economics of hearing care; Dr. Bob Traynor; Dr. Judy Huch; Dr. Alan Desmond, an expert on vestibular issues; and Dr. Marshall Chasin, who addresses the concerns of music lovers with hearing problems. How has HHTM evolved since its launch? Our

context of hearing loss and what audiology/health system behaviors might support living well.” Some of the behaviors the panel agreed on included, “You have accepted your hearing loss and are psychologically comfortable with it,” “Health services should measure social outcomes,” and that clinicians should “find out what the person with hearing loss’ e [...] the University of Manchester, and Simon de Lusignan of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre asked stakeholders what processes were necessary for a person with hearing loss to live well. Stakeholders included clinicians, researchers, and people with hearing loss. The article, “Supporting living well with hearing loss: A Delphi review of self [...] my research is that stakeholders do support the use of both informing and involving processes in hearing healthcare,” says Fiona. “I am working to develop an intervention to encourage audiologists and people with hearing loss to collaborate to develop behavioral plans for hearing aid use. Just like the evidence suggests that patients are more likely