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Published: 27-06-2019 17:38

many ways to manage hearing loss. Assisstive technologies — such as hearing aids — and communication strategies can help you, your friends, and family work together to manage your hearing and communication. GET HEARING LOSS FACTS Prepare for hearing care appointments Good hearing care is a partnership between you and your hearing care professional. Our [...] Living with hearing loss Improving your hearing is about more than just technology. It's important to articulate your needs, involve your family and friends in your care, and work with a hearing care professional who understands your needs and will help you improve your communication. Hearing loss affects millions of people around the world. While there [...] interactive tool. Take control of communication EVERYDAY LIFE WITH HEARING LOSS Get tips and strategies to help you improve your communication. MANAGING HEARING LOSS AT WORK Use these resources and tips to help your workplace meet your needs as a person with hearing loss. Tinnitus and hearing loss Tinnitus affects roughly one in every ten people. While there

Published: 26-06-2019 17:46

red care Every hearing care professional strives to provide the best possible treatment for their clients. Whether you need a new clinical tool to support your counseling efforts, are looking for new information and skills, or to earn CEUs/CPDs, Ida tools and resources help you provide personalized care and signal to your clients and colleagues that [...] Starter Kit Tinnitus Tinnitus tools Group AR Group AR resources Children and teenagers with hearing loss have different needs than adults. Our pediatric tools and resources are designed specifically for your young clients and their families. SEE ALL OF OUR PEDIATRIC TOOLS AND RESOURCES Professional development JOIN INSPIRED BY IDA Learn how you can [...] content. Watch real clinical encounters and interviews with people with hearing loss to gain new insights and see person-centered care in action. Explore our video library ACCESS OUR TOOLS ON THE APP The Ida Tools app gives you instant access to all of our tools and makes it easy to share them with clients and colleagues through your mobile device. WE'VE

Published: 26-06-2019 15:51

COURSE Give your students a solid foundation in person-centered care and the advantages it offers with these nine modules. Time and Talk Time and Talk Person-Centered Care Curriculum Guidelines PCC Curriculum Guidelines Partnering for Great Hearing Care Partnering for Great Hearing Care Unique learning resources KNOWLEDGE BANK Use this database of p [...] the client's perspective. Ida works closely with universities and educational institutions to help graduate future professionals for whom person-centered care is standard practice. Our educational resources span teaching materials for classrooms and clinics, online learning options, and an extensive Knowledge Bank. Tools for teaching person-centered [...] COURSES Join the Ida Learning Hall to take our free courses in person-centered care - and support your students to do the same. Please accept marketing cookies to view this content. Use our videos of real clinical encounters and interviews with people with hearing loss to help prepare your students for the future. Explore our video library Did you know

Published: 25-06-2019 14:35

appointment This module helps lecturers guide students in hearing care, rehabilitation, and teaching to translate person-centered care from theory into practice. The Calgary-Cambridge Guides and the Four Habits provide the framework of the course. Games, ethnographic videos of real appointments, and role-plays are incorporated throughout to help the learner [...] applying person-centered care throughout the appointment and the research that demonstrates the reality of what happens when it comes to “walking the talk” of PCC. Unit two focuses on the person-centered communication tasks required in the beginning of an appointment. Unit three centers on empathy and developing the therapeutic relationship. In unit four [...] stages of the appointment are approached in a person-centered way. The final unit reviews the Four Habits and introduces the SPIKES protocol for delivering difficult news before leading students in an exercise to study their own communication skills and reflect on areas to be strengthened. Module 7 Walk the walk: Make time to talk Learn more >> Invest in

with Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care and The Hearing Care Partnership . The goal of the partnership is to enhance the quality of audiological rehabilitation and support the advancement of hearing care. Leightons is a family run business established in 1928. They operate 34 vision and hearing care practices the UK. The Hearing Care Partnership is a subsidiary [...] staff become more aware of the importance of hearing and of the specific challenges related to hearing loss, building a bridge between the different areas of expertise within the company. “Our goal is to enable people to live life to the fullest through understanding the link between hearing, vision and health,” says Ryan Leighton. “Collaboration with [...] new tools and resources for person-centered care. “Person-centered care starts from within,” says Ryan Leighton, CEO of Leightons Opticians & Hearing Care. “Teaming up with one of the world’s most esteemed knowledge hubs for person-centered hearing care will allow us to infuse our clinical activity and customer service with PCC.” Leightons has already

needs and preferences Bridgitte Harley, Director and Audiologist, The Hearing Clinic Understanding a client’s needs and preferences is essential to delivering hearing care in a meaningful way. This requires both the clinician and the client to participate in a process of, first discovering what the hearing and communication challenges are, and then defining [...] themselves and create an atmosphere for self-management, rather than one where hearing care professionals drive the agenda. Involving family and friends Nerina Scarinci, Assoc. Professor, BSpPath (Hons), PhD, Head of Speech Pathology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland In order to successfully involve family and friends [...] friends in hearing care you need to first identify the important people in the patient’s life and acknowledge the crucial role they play. Involving them means inviting them along to appointments and encouraging them to contribute to any assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for the hearing loss because they play a key role in this process and can contribute

focused on two tracks: Mindset Change and Practice Change. Mindset Change is useful when a team is new to the concept of person-centered care. The process explains what PCC is and what the benefits are for clinicians and their clients. The Mindset Change process helps the team build consensus on shared goals and what they hope to achieve. Practice Change [...] Clients expectations for personalized hearing care are continuing to grow. But while clinicians and clinic managers may be committed to running their clinic in a person-centered way, they may still encounter challenges in their efforts to meet their clients’ wants and needs. The Change Guide is designed to make change processes easier for clinics. The [...] person-centered care to their team, build a consensus on actionable points among colleagues, and get everyone working together towards shared goals. The Change Guide uses an appreciative approach to help team members focus on what is already working well in the clinic and reframe obstacles so that they can be used to the team’s advantage. As part of our own

ethics and guiding questions to develop an educational resource that audiology students and clinicians can use to reflect on patients’ needs within and outside the context of an appointment. Principal researcher: Andrea Simpson Co-investigators: Renee Garrucio, Clare Delany, and Stella Ng Does viewing ethnographic videos change audiology and speech-language [...] clinical self-efficacy and anxiety in commencing clinical placements? This study aims to explore the effect of observing the Ida ethnographic videos on first-year audiology and speech-language pathology students’ confidence and comfort in interacting with patients. Principal researcher: Nerina Scarinci Co-investigators: Kristen Tulloch and Christopher Lind [...] of the Ida Research Grant is to further research and build evidence for person-centered care. Each year, up to 10,000 USD is awarded in funding to three projects that develop evidence related to Ida Institute methods and tools and aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of person-centered care in hearing rehabilitation. This year’s projects will be completed

tinnitus on temporal processing and the effectiveness of smart phone hearing aid apps. CAA also strives to be the main source of hearing care information for the public and are advocates for policy change. “I believe that Canadian audiologists are taking a holistic approach, considering the multiple touchpoints of hearing loss, and its impact to the overall [...] is driven by the fundamental belief that professional care and support is most effective and valuable when it occurs in partnership with and active participation by our clients at every step along the patient journey,” says De Wet Swanepoel of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. “Ida has become synonymous with person-centered [...] Dave Gordey, President of CAA. “This perspective aligns well with the Ida Institute and their model of person-centered care. The Ida Institute is well known as experts in the development of habilitation and rehabilitation tools for children and adults with hearing loss and I believe our partnership will enhance Canadian audiologists’ knowledge on supporting

of how tools and resources are used and adapted for local relevance. Can you tell us about the workshops? Yes! We have an exciting few months of workshops coming up! The first workshop in May is with the speech pathology and audiology department of Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Bara is the world’s third largest hospital and the speech-language pathology [...] student centered and enable PCC in the student and university clinics. In June there will be another follow-up workshop with partner university, UCT. UCT’s academic staff committed to participating in the Inspired by Ida program and I’m looking forward to hearing how this is influencing their teaching and clinical supervision, and to what the next steps [...] drawn to the search for truth and to stories of our humanity. But instead of following a path to writing, Cher found herself in the beautiful, tree-lined town of Stellenbosch, SA, studying speech-language pathology and audiology. After graduating, and spending 15 productive years in the UK, she returned to South Africa and eventually joined us here at