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Published: 01-03-2019 16:16

achieve and introduce participants to the rules that will guide your Mindset Change process. This will help ensure that everyone feels comfortable to contribute and that all ideas are treated respectfully. Step 2: Describe person-centered care Team members use sticky notes to describe what they think person-centered care is. By hearing and respecting [...] Change Mindset Change helps you and your team develop a shared understanding of what person-centered care (PCC) means to you and why it matters. Download the facilitator notes Everything you need to run Mindset Change, from what supplies to bring, to what to say. Watch the four steps of Mindset Change Step 1: Share your goal and the ground rules Explain what [...] respecting the different perspectives and values expressed about PCC, you are moving towards a shared understanding of the topic. Step 3: Create a mind map and discuss Create a mind map by grouping the sticky notes together by topic. Discuss the mind map and what your clinic would be like if you could be more person-centered more of the time. This bottom-up

Published: 01-03-2019 14:02

a Person with Hearing Loss People who don’t have hearing loss might find it hard to imagine what living with hearing loss is like – and might be shy about asking. But understanding hearing loss is a way to break down stigma and dispel misconceptions. For World Hearing Day, we’ve asked our guest bloggers Shari Eberts , Gael Hannan , and Nick Tedd to tell [...] the slack or fill in the gaps. People with hearing loss use visual clues such as speechreading, text interpretation, and environmental elements. When watching someone as they speak, I use their facial expressions, lip movements, and body language to augment what I’m hearing. Captioning and written notes and documents play the same role. If I see the [...] metal, hard woods and tile reflect the sound of music and voices, creating a reverberant din that masks speech. For easier conversation, seek out restaurants with soft surfaces like cushioned seats, acoustic tile, and fabric wrapped panels or carpeting, which absorb noise. Is your hearing loss worse some days than others? Shari: Hearing loss can seem to

between the ENT and speech therapy clinics on the first floor of the hospital. Four audiologists share one bright, open office with views over the Durbanville hills. Silva Kuschke, Cheri Pienaar, Lindiwe Ncube, and Nikki Tromp spend a lot of time together working closely and have become like family. They laugh together, eat together, and share stories [...] there was a genetic component to the hearing loss. She discovered the baby had moderate hearing loss. He’s now in a weekly aural rehabilitation program with the hospital’s speech therapy department and the older brother is thriving in a signing school. Person-centered care is proven to lead to more satisfied patients and better outcomes. Even if the children [...] delivering person-centered hearing care and have completed a training program offered by the Ida Institute. The goal of the program is to encourage hearing care professionals around the world, like Silva Kuschke and her team in room S24 of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, to implement person-centered care in their practice. S24 is sandwiched

Published: 27-02-2019 16:37

The tools in action Ida observed two Danish couples as they completed the Living Well and Why Improve My Hearing at home and then discussed their results with an audiologist. If you would like to contribute a video to the website showing how you or a colleague work with Telecare, please contact us . Please accept marketing cookies to view this content

Published: 25-02-2019 16:01

your services beyond the appointment and improve the quality of your care. Clients who have considered their motivations and priorities before coming to the appointment are better equipped to make decisions about and feel more involved in their hearing care. By encouraging your clients to think about their needs and concerns before they come to see you [...] resources to help them learn to manage their hearing loss in everyday situations: Preparation for first appointment Why Improve My Hearing: Help clients determine how motivated they are to take action on their hearing loss Living Well: Help clients identify when communication without hearing aids is easy or difficult and which steps they can take to improve [...] most often and the questions they have after trying hearing aids Tinnitus Thermometer: Have patients fill out the tool before every appointment to gauge changes in how they feel about their tinnitus Everyday life with hearing loss Top Tips for Managing Conversations: Clients can watch videos where people with hearing loss share their tips and tricks for

people we don’t know very well. We will nod and smile and make little noises that indicate agreement or interest. And the worst thing is that we do this even with our audiologists! Audiologists, do your clients do this with you? As a lifelong bluffer, I guarantee you that people do bluff with their hearing care providers. But why? Why would we not be [...] retreat behind the veils of bluffing. And who would blame us? The topic of conversation can shift direction like a hockey puck and seldom does anyone pause long enough to give us the heads up that the convo has changed from the weather to politics. This may cause one of the most embarrassing things to a person with hearing loss: saying the wrong thing at [...] at the wrong time. We chime in merrily about the rain in Spain – and the talk grinds to silence and someone says the dreaded words, “we’re not talking about that anymore.” To avoid this humiliation, we just stay silent and fix our face into the look of someone who is interestedly following the puck of conversation. But trust me, we are faking it. Bluffing

How does hearing loss affect our relationship with our better half? “ Hearing Loss as a Social Problem: A Study of Hearing-impaired Spouses and Their Hearing Partners ,” a newly published study in the Hearing Review and funded by the Ida Institute, describes how people with hearing loss and their partners experience and manage hearing loss in the context [...] experiences and behaviors in the context of our relationships. Relationships, the researchers suggest, are affected by the way hearing loss disturbs the natural give-and-take of conversations, interrupting the connectedness of the interactions. Both the people with hearing loss participating and their partners bemoaned the loss of spontaneity and the di [...] The study highlights how hearing loss puts pressure on personal relationships by complicating the conversational exchanges at the core of human interaction. Anthropologist Tine Tjørnhøj Thomsen and her co-author, Ida Senior Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen, take a nuanced look at the social implications of hearing loss and how social factors affect

insight and information, and respond to community questions through a variety of activities, such as video Q&A sessions and newsfeed posts on Connect Pages . Whether people with hearing loss and their communication partners are looking for facts about hearing loss, advice and emotional support from mentors and community members, or to share tips and tricks [...] living with hearing loss. Mayo Clinic Connect is an online community where patients and families share experiences, exchange information, and find support from people like themselves. This week they launched a new group specifically for people with hearing loss and their communication partners. Ida and Mayo Clinic, together with the Hearing Loss Association [...] Association of America (HLAA) , held a focus group of people with hearing loss and their communication partners to launch the new group. Participants of the focus group, as founding members of the Hearing Loss group, will initiate discussions relevant and meaningful to them. “The experience of hearing loss is so diverse. Overcoming barriers of geography, people

Published: 06-02-2019 14:44

Cuddling, rocking, talking, and singing are some of the natural ways you can communicate with your baby and develop the bond, whatever their degree of hearing loss. To help your child develop social skills and positive self-esteem, you and your family need to be able to discuss how your child’s hearing affects the family and everyone’s feelings. You will [...] Reading and responding to your child Develop routines and create habits: Developing predictable routines to build trust Exploring and problem solving: Developing curiosity and confidence Express feelings and empathy: Teaching emotions Develop communication skills: Identifying strategies to improve communication with your child Make decisions and advocate [...] your face and copy the noises and faces they make. Respond to your child. Example: When a child rubs her eyes, you recognize that she is tired and say, “Oh you are sleepy – time for a nap,” and prepare her to take a nap. Respond to your environment. Example, if the doorbell rings, look up, point to your ear to indicate you heard something, and say, “Did

Published: 06-02-2019 11:31

the videos below, children with hearing loss and their families share their challenges and how they overcame them. Please accept marketing cookies to view this content. Nancy talks about how making connections with professionals and other parents help her understand her options as a parent to two daughters with hearing loss. Please accept marketing cookies [...] from pre-school teachers and mentors helped her get the necessary support for her daughter Rosie. Please accept marketing cookies to view this content. Jackie is a mother to two sons with hearing loss. Here she talks about the different emotions she experienced with each of her children as they received their diagnoses and through different phases of