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working. The camp includes educational programs during the day and fun activities during the evening, such as sports, games, and team building exercises. The fun atmosphere creates a space where the participants and counselors can bond and engage in many fruitful, informal conversations. “Having the activities in the evening was a great way for the teenagers [...] support their children.” The overnight camp provides a chance for teens to meet other teenagers that have hearing loss and share experiences. Many of the high school students who participate in the camp attend neighborhood schools in small communities across the state of Ohio. The camp is often the first time that they have had the opportunity to interact [...] me about the challenges she faced and how she overcame them. This helped significantly.” The overnight camp also aims to teach teenagers how they can best advocate for their needs at college, future work places, and beyond. Over the course of the two-day camp, camp counselors serve as mentors and role models for the teenage participants. The camp counselors

The Ida Institute is progressing with its Vision 2020 project. We have developed three work streams for the project: The Hearing Care Specialist of the Future, Telehealth, and the Big Message. We have now held our first meetings on the Hearing Care Specialist of the Future. The objective is to help audiologists adapt as the industry changes in the next [...] next few years by looking at what their role in patient care is beyond the audiogram. Before the meeting about the Hearing Care Specialist of the Future, members of our community uploaded video presentations (Selfies) of their work to our forum to generate discussion. These discussions served as a starting point for the meetings. The main ideas produced [...] produced in the Hearing Care Specialist of the Future meetings for the longevity of audiology, are: Encourage patient centered care: This includes increasing the focus on the patients’ needs through counseling and rehabilitative therapy, rather than on selling hearing aids. Offer flexible services: A more accurate assessment of patient needs will enable

loss, but also the concerns about cochlear implants as a treatment from the surgery through the year-long rehabilitation period. At the seminar, participants will explore the patient journey from the perspectives of both patients and parents as well as professionals including surgeons, ENTs, audiologists and others involved in the child’s rehabilitation [...] The Ida Institute is looking forward to expanding its work with cochlear implants this year. This will include hosting a seminar, “Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and Their Families.” The focus of the seminar will be the patient experience, exploring the needs of children with CIs and their families. [...] n. The goal of the seminar is to identify concrete tools to meet the needs of children with CIs and their families. To do this, invited participants will explore the relationship between patients and clinicians, investigate how CI rehabilitation works today in different parts of the world and identify critical gaps, and define what a successful journey

Published: 20-01-2015 12:17

electrodes. The receiver is anchored under the skin to the bone behind the ear during a surgery that typically takes one to two hours. The processor is worn over the ear, and attaches to the wearer's head with a magnet to the internal receiver. Sound is transmitted to the internal receiver, which sends sound waves through the electrodes. The electrodes [...] a successful journey is the ongoing involvement of someone who can help guide children and families through the transition phases. Equally important is providing the tools needed to achieve the outcome that everyone hopes for: A healthy, independent child, and a family that can provide the support the child needs. What is the necessary structural support [...] psycho-social Support from the beginning Support is crucial throughout the CI journey and begins with the newborn hearing screening. When the screening shows that the infant has a hearing loss, it is up to the professionals conducting the assessment to remember that they are delivering news that will likely be very difficult for the parents to accept. Emotional

Published: 02-02-2015 12:47

tion. An advantage of the online platform is the opportunity to include a variety of materials from PDFs to video. Ida ethnographic videos are used to generate discussion and reinforce course content. Although the course focuses on children from birth to three years, students who see older children have explored the use of the My World tool. Ida Institute [...] libraries. The speaking events can provide relevant, user-friendly information about hearing health care to the community near your school. Visit Local Schools Visit Local Schools Get involved in your 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 [...] University of Sao Paulo developed, in partnership with the Hospital Samaritano - São Paulo, “Auditory Rehabilitation in Hearing Impaired Children: Emphasis from Birth to 3 Years Old.” With financial support from the PROADI-SUS of the Ministry of Health, the online course debuted in August 2013 to an initial study body of 105 students, made up of audiologists

Published: 03-02-2015 12:56

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 selected environment. Ask the child [...] that might arise and ask the child to describe the situations to you. You can use the child’s responses to start exploring their world, how they cope with challenges, and brainstorm solutions. Role play the situations with the child through the characters they’ve selected. You may also use the characters in the third person. The goal is to offer a set [...] when using the three environments in the My World tool. The Quick Tool contains possible questions to ask the child as you explore their daily life at home, in the classroom, and during outside activities. Keep in mind that your conversations with the child should always focus on the topics and challenges that are important to the child. The questions

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, we tried with the help of the audiologists in our faculty to find these gaps. Some of the insights that I found in South Africa confirm these gaps. There were also some new ones.” One of the films, Team [...] implants until he was three years old. His story focuses on the parents’ frustration of the late diagnosis that delayed his communicative development, but also on how the Connor’s persistent mother is creating a team of the schoolteachers around Connor that will ensure a smooth transition to his new mainstream school. “Through the films, it’s really an eye [...] Team Connor , follows the titular nine-year-old boy through his day. He is preparing to leave the Carel du Toit Centre for mainstream school. Though Connor is profoundly deaf, 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

Published: 16-04-2015 17:13

Care Manager of the Future. Please accept marketing cookies to view this content. See the presentations of the two Hearing Care Manager of the Future groups: Communication for Life and Fit for the Future. Juggling can be a metaphor for the way hearing care professionals will need to balance the demands of day-to-day patient care with the external pressures [...] roles. Fit for the Future The second group looked at the skills or ‘DNA’ hearing care managers of the future will need to have. Like many professionals in changing industries, audiologists will be facing a competitive skills gap as the rehabilitative aspects become more essential. The group’s solution, Fit for the Future, is centered on the development [...] many challenges to the profession, they also represent an opportunity for the profession to build a strong bridge to the future that recognizes the importance of the human dynamics of hearing loss.” Ida will continue to use future-based idea development and the appreciative approach to develop a future-proofing timeline. To fill the need for different

Growing up can be difficult enough. 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 [...] online framework that will explain the different 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 [...] transitions successfully. We held a preliminary virtual meeting in early April with participants from our global community who all work in the field of pediatric audiology. We will continue to hold virtual meetings over the next few months, which will inform how we develop our framework. We look forward to sharing our progress with you!

Published: 22-05-2015 12:38

this content. George is five years old and lives with his family in Derby, UK. He was born with cerebral palsy and the family considered his deafness a minor thing on the long list of ailments. The film provides a very honest picture of the frustrations and challenges the family has encountered on their journey through the public health system. Their [...] Connor is a nine-year-old boy from Cape Town, South Africa. He attends the Carel du Toit school for deaf and hard of hearing children. Through interviews with teachers and parents, the film shows the challenges that a family experiences when bringing up a child with a CI. In particular, the film focuses on key transitions such as when the child begins [...] into the decision of getting a CI for a child. The film also portrays a strong mother who does not take no for an answer and who sometimes struggles with the health services in order to get the best care for her son. This short film gives you a very honest picture of what it takes to achieve these goals, even through “you feel like you’re the bad guy