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Published: 20-01-2015 15:04

Institute to film his students doing the Time and Talk workshop. Amr graduated from the faculty of medicine at Cairo University in 1988 and obtained a master in Audiology in 1991 and MD/PhD in 1996. He worked in the MRC Institute of Hearing Research from 1996-2000 and at Bristol University as a lecturer and BSc program director from 2004-2012. Amr is [...] Keeping with our commitment to collaboration and co-creation, the Ida Institute collaborated with leading subject matter experts to develop the Time and Talk tool. The tool would not have been possible without their dedicated efforts. We would like to thank them for their contributions. Lesley Jones Time and Talk is based on the Hull York Medical School [...] Silverman and Suzanne M. Kurtz. With the courtesy of the Calgary-Cambridge authors, the Ida Institute adapted the method for use in audiology in collaboration with Lesley Jones, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Hull York Medical School, University of York. Lesley is a qualitative researcher and teacher working in health and social science

Published: 02-02-2015 12:47

community and offer hearing health information and free hearing screenings to students at the beginning of each school year. Your visit to the school can help raise awareness of hearing loss among students and their families. From the editor Long Distance Learning Innovative Approach to Pediatric Rehabilitation Education Equips Brazil’s Hearing Professionals [...] 2010 law requiring hearing screenings for all newborns through Brazil’s socialized healthcare system, many audiologists were not prepared to take on the increased numbers of pediatric patients. To answer that need, Deborah and colleagues Professor Orozimbo Alves Costa and Maria Cecilia Bevilacqua (in memoriam) of the Speech Language and Audiology Department [...] webinar is an opportunity to learn a new skill and earn CEUs. More tools Ideas Worth Hearing Library Talks Make it easier for people to become better informed about hearing loss by organizing a speaker series at public libraries. The speaking events can provide relevant, user-friendly information about hearing health care to the community near your school

Published: 03-02-2015 12:56

chosen environment should be connected to the goals for the session or the issues and challenges raised by the parents. Take the selected environment and ask the child to help you make it “just for them” by arranging furniture and selecting characters to represent friends and themselves. With the child, identify the primary communication partners in the [...] trust in the child before you introduce the tool Be sincerely curious and listen carefully Ask open-ended questions Ask "what would you do if...?" Role play solutions and strategies that are discussed with the child Ensure that the child has heard your message or question correctly and understands what to do Convey that there are no right or wrong answers [...] photos can be a starting point for your conversation and may offer concrete situations that it will be helpful to role play using My World. You may also ask the child to do a photo journey of their life with hearing loss. This journey can show what they enjoy doing, how they cope in those situations, and who their main communication partners are in different

Published: 03-02-2015 12:56

be made and reviewed with the child to ensure that your understanding is correct. Re-engage the Family At the end of the interview, you may be able to initiate a new topic of conversation with the family based on what was said in the interview. This conversation involves talking to parents about what the scene means in terms of hearing and communication [...] situation?" "I work with other children who have trouble hearing the ... (eg, teacher, other children, etc.). Can you think of some advice to give to these children that also works well for you?" Avoid Suggestive Meanings During this process, it is important to avoid suggesting meaning to a child and instead encourage their clarification. For example, you [...] communication for their child, and what action you and the parents might take next. Download Responding to the Child's Story

Published: 03-02-2015 12:56

document the current experience and situation of the child and the goals and next steps agreed upon. You can also use the form to record the persons who are responsible for different steps in the management of the child’s hearing loss. Please accept marketing cookies to view this content. Ariana is nine years old and has bilateral cochlear implants [...] Methods to Perserve and Record Information The conversation using the tool is an expression of the child’s experience or feelings at that particular moment. It is a good idea to record what was said in the conversation and the goals and next steps agreed upon. You can then refer to it later to check information or during the next appointment when discussing [...] Make a video or audio recording of the conversation with the child and extract the information required at a later time. The parents may also choose to do this. Remember that recording for storage requires permission from the parents and assurances from you regarding privacy issues and secure storage. Download Methods to Record Information

Published: 08-02-2015 17:55

people for their contributions to the Teens and Tweens Dilemma Game. Joy Rosenberg Joy F. Rosenberg, M.Ed., MSc., is a Clinical Scientist in Audiology and a Teacher of the Deaf. She has spent three decades in a variety of positions in America, Asia, and Europe. Hannah Williams Hannah Williams is an audiologist and researcher based in London. She works for [...] for Chear, an independent audiology service that specializes in the assessment and management of very young children. Debbie Baerlocher Dr. Debbie Baerlocher is the Clinic Lead in pediatrics with the Elks Hearing and Balance Center in Idaho, USA. She received her doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.) from Central Michigan University in 2000.

different families and worked with local ethnographer Rosie Blake while in Cape Town. We are very thankful to Ruth Bourne and staff at the Carel du Toit Centre for making these films possible. Both films will make their debuts at our seminar, “Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and Their Families,” and will later [...] interviewed families with children with cochlear implants to learn about their rehabilitation processes, their daily lives, and what is being done to meet their needs. “These films provide a lot of insights into the challenges and where the gaps are,” says Hans Henrik. “What’s needed for parents to improve this journey they’re on with the child? Before [...] his parents struggled to get a diagnosis that would grant him a CI operation. Despite taking him to ENTs from before he was a year old, his hearing loss was misattributed to a series of middle ear infections, and he did not get cochlear implants until he was three years old. His story focuses on the parents’ frustration of the late diagnosis that delayed

technology such as Bluetooth and FM systems with hearing instruments. “Part of living well with hearing loss is the ability of the patient to identify what is important and critical in their own life and how their hearing loss may be impacting their ability to participate in that particular activity,” she says. “Hearing aids and cochlear implants provide [...] As hearing aids become more sophisticated, so does the technology that supplements them. But how do patients and their audiologists know if this added tech is helpful for the hearing aid user? In her recent article for Seminars in Hearing, “Benefits of Integrating Wireless Technology with Hearing Instruments,” Carrie Spangler, AuD, describes using Ida’s [...] Ida’s Living Well and My World tools with patients to find what important situations they have difficulty hearing in. Using the tools led to suggesting wireless technologies as one of the strategies for improving their hearing. “Utilizing the Living Well and My World tools allows the patient and professional to enter into a dialogue of what is important

during the last week of February to wrap up our Vision 2020 process. We devoted a day and a half each to both the Hearing Care Manager of the Future and Tele-health, where the participants took inspiration from outside presenters, participated in team-building activities, and dreamed up projects for further development. The meetings were an opportunity for [...] g virtually in August of last year – to exchange ideas and share experiences gained in both the clinic and the classroom. “I felt the ideas put out by the participants were realistic and the experience gave me hope that audiologists will define our place in the new model of service delivery and work to future-proof our profession together whilst creating [...] ogy, educational platforms, and how tele-audiology can give clinicians more time to focus on the therapeutic aspects of treatment. We are currently working on organizing and expanding the projects designed during the meetings. We’re looking forward to sharing the resulting tools and materials with the Ida community, and we’re still developing the final

of passage – separation/detachment, liminal phase, and reintegration – as they learn about their hearing loss, decide to take action on it, and ultimately learn to live well with it. It requires recognizing a new reality and being caught in an in-between phase before adjusting to using hearing aids and techniques to help them cope in noisier settings [...] the hearing care manager as a guide who helps the patient through these transitions. He compares them to Obi Wan Kenobi or Gandalf, figures who not only recognizing the significance of the change in the lives of those they are guiding, but also help them to smoothly navigate their new course. “Based on the outcomes of our Hearing Care Manager and Tele-health [...] Graduations, marriages, and visits to the audiologist: We might not view them in the same light, but they are all milestones in our lives. These watershed occasions are the topic of Ida Institute Chief Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen’s article, “Rite of Passage: An Alternative Approach to Rehabilitation,” in the latest issue of Audiology Today