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Boosting your empathy and understanding will improve your ability to practice person-centered care. If you’re feeling confident, you could set up your own group sessions. The Ida Institute’s Group AR tool is a free guide that helps you organize and run peer support sessions for your clients. 2. Create a survey or host a roundtable Consider surveying [...] important rallying cry in the disability community. It means that no policy, product, or service should be developed without the full and direct participation of members of the group that will be impacted. Whether it is an innovative technology product, the installation of a new listening system at a theater, or standards for captioning on social media, [...] their individual patient care recommendations. There are many ways audiologists can form these important links with the hearing loss community. 1. Attend hearing loss support group meetings This is probably the easiest place to start. Many hearing loss support groups exist throughout the world, including actives ones in the USA ( Hearing Loss Association

about a unique summer project to support the department’s international students. This interview is part of a series on the Person-Centered Hearing Network, a collaborative group of organizations around the world working together for a world where person-centered hearing care is the norm. Read more about the network here. How do you and your organization [...] barriers in learning and adopting person-centered communication skills. We have recognized for some time that there is a need to address the specific challenges faced by this group, so we are running a six to eight-week project during summer 2021, developing and then delivering weekly sessions to support international students with their PCC skills before

Innovative. Tell us about a project you’re working on that excites you. We’re members of the Ida Institute South Africa Chapter – a group of volunteers in South Africa working to advance person-centered hearing care. Through this group, information is shared and discussions on hearing loss and hearing care relevant to our regional context are promoted. We’ve

Living Well with first-time users of hearing aids being treated at the first public audiology clinic providing hearing aid fitting services in Greece. The inclusion of a control group will ensure any specific impacts of the tool can be identified. Evgenia Vassou, who is leading the research project, hopes the study will lay the groundwork for further imp

university curricula, using the findings to raise awareness about PCC outside the network, and kickstarting change management processes across stakeholder groups. Next were small-group discussions on the issue of trust between and among stakeholders in hearing care, which emerged as an area of concern among all groups taking part in our Future Hearing Journeys

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Future Hearing Journeys How will hearing care change in the next five to ten years? What implications will we see for people with hearing loss, hearing care professionals, educators, students, and the

of my life, and even scared that I wouldn’t wake up after the operation. But knowing that fear is often caused by a lack of knowledge, I joined the international CI Facebook group and posted my story. One piece of advice rolled in after another. One comment was particularly blunt and read, ‘expect nothing and hope for everything.’ Great! This was reality

and are strongly positioned to counsel our strategic planning and support the wider dissemination and implementation of person-centered care.” Thomsen and Harte are joining a group of distinguished experts in hearing health who will make up the Ida Institute Advisory Board 2021-2022. They include Louise Hickson, PhD, Associate Dean External Engagement

were hearing care professionals, people with hearing loss, patient advocacy representatives, academics, and key thought leaders in the industry. By bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders, Ida aimed to spark creativity, innovation, and connectedness in the world of hearing healthcare. Prior to the workshop, Ida conducted more than 60 interviews [...] consumers and hearing care professionals might benefit from increased levels of data privacy. Each participant was assigned a scenario to explore in-depth in a smaller breakout group. We examined the benefits and risks for consumers as well as hearing care professionals in each scenario and discussed what PCC would look like in this future world. I represented

At the Ida Institute, we’re believers in the ability of partnerships to transform our world. It’s why we created the person-centered hearing network (PCHN) — a collaborative group of patient and professional organizations, universities, and other leaders focused on improving hearing care on a global scale. Recently, one of our PCHN partners — the Department