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potential partnerships with attending universities to collaborate on projects, studies, papers and new findings in areas that have the most relevance and greatest impact for hearing care, hearing care professionals and, most importantly, people with hearing loss. “We see tremendous potential for young audiologists preparing to enter workforce to benefit [...] tools developed by the Ida Institute through our seminars and collaboration with experts in audiology and other healthcare disciplines,” states Ida Institute Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. “Through partnerships with universities in the U.S. and other countries, we aim to inspire networking and new ambassadors to further the Institute’s goal of generating [...] already begun to develop Modules that will contain a variety of education materials to enable educators, clinicians and other hearing care professionals to conduct training sessions for students, staff members and individuals with hearing loss.”

people with hearing loss to consider how hearing loss might impact their relationships with people in their lives. In addition to helping patients identify the central and supporting players in their networks, the Communication Rings tool enables patients and their hearing care professionals formulate rehabilitation goals that maintain and strengthen [...] Partnerships and are excited about the tools and knowledge that have been developed in collaboration with more than 70 global participants. We are pleased to launch these tools at the Audiology Now! Congress in April. The tools will be available at our exhibit and will be presented by Ida faculty Profs. Joseph Montano, PhD, Chief of Audiology and Speech Language [...] essential communication channels. The Goal Sharing for Partners strategy is a step-by-step questionnaire that assists people with hearing loss and their communication partners to acknowledge the hearing loss and the limitations and restrictions it places on each. By helping them to acknowledge that they are partners in communication, the GPS tool enables

Published: 09-08-2010 16:20

seminars are a series of educational, interactive workshops where hearing care professionals have the opportunity to collaborate, explore, and develop new knowledge and tools to address the psychological and social aspects of hearing loss. Invited participants include clinicians, instructors, and researchers from around the world, representing a wide range [...] different professional backgrounds in the hearing care community. The seminars are less about instruction and teaching, and more about joint-exploration and collaboration. At the seminars, participants engage each other in an innovative environment to better understand some of the key issues facing the hearing care profession. During the seminars, pa [...] engage in discussions, reflect on their daily practice, and attend lectures from invited subject matter experts. One of the overarching goals of the seminars is to tap the combined knowledge-base and insight of the participants and apply it to the development of new tangible tools for hearing care professionals. At the conclusion of each seminar, we

Published: 09-08-2010 16:23

individuals affected by a person’s hearing loss. The term highlights the fact that hearing loss affects more than just a person’s hearing. It impacts the ability for people to communicate and to relate to others in their social network. As such, hearing loss can have a profound effect on spouses, family members, friends, and work colleagues. These individuals [...] has a hearing loss and often the driving force behind a person with hearing loss seeking help. Seminar participants also reflected on the important role of communication partnerships and the value of focusing on communication challenges rather than hearing problems. By using the term communication partnerships, one stresses the need to view hearing loss [...] Journey . The tools enable hearing care professionals to identify the client’s most important communication partners and to incorporate them into the rehabilitation process. In this way, the tools help hearing care professionals develop a shared, goal-setting strategy for rehabilitation that involves the person with hearing loss and their most important

Published: 09-08-2010 16:24

description of ‘hearing’ and ‘hearing loss’, the series focused on improving our common understanding of how people with hearing loss and hearing care professionals go about defining hearing and the client's hearing loss journey. With help from the Faculty members, the seminar series explored the process of defining hearing and hearing loss by re-examining [...] Defining Hearing The Ida Institute’s first seminar series, the Process of Defining Hearing, consisted of three seminars that took place in September 2008, January 2009, and February 2009 in Skodsborg, Denmark. The seminar explored the many different ways that people with hearing loss and health care professionals define hearing and hearing loss. Instead [...] principles and the clinical encounter. During the course of the three part seminar series, participants collaborated to develop a common definition of a possible hearing loss journey. The seminar participants were asked to identify the different stages and steps that a typical person with hearing loss may experience as they live with their hearing loss.

Published: 09-08-2010 16:24

Seminar participants explored and reflected upon the concept of client motivation and its application in the hearing care community. During this exploration, participants considered the ability of hearing care professionals to use person-centered care principles and tools to sustain sufficient levels of motivation and enable clients to take constructive [...] action on their hearing loss. Most hearing care professionals are familiar with clients not following recommendations and not using their hearing aids or implementing communication strategies. Instead of recommending, persuading, or convincing the people with hearing loss to change their behavior, research has shown that physicians and counselors should [...] The seminar introduced the Motivation Tools as an effective way for hearing care professionals to help people with hearing loss motivate themselves to take action. The tools can help hearing care professionals identify how important it is for their clients to change their habits and how much the clients believes in their ability to change. The seminar

Published: 09-08-2010 16:33

with Hearing Loss Our fourth seminar series explored what it means to "live well with hearing loss" and how hearing care professionals can enable individuals to improve communication situations in their daily life. The three seminars took place in October 2010, January 2011, and March 2011. We began the seminar series with the premise that hearing loss [...] people with hearing loss in improving their daily communication can be viewed as a reasonable and valid goal of audiological rehabilitation services for hearing impaired individuals, their family, and their friends. We then explored the multitude of definitions one can subscribe to the concept of "living well." Each individual with hearing loss may define [...] conversation is critical to one's image as a competent social being and an important aspect of living well with hearing loss. Realizing that each person has their own definition of living well with hearing loss, seminar participants reiterated the importance of allowing people with hearing loss to tell their story in their own words during the consultation

the last three years, the Ida Institute has contributed to a substantial and positive paradigm shift away from the prescriptive way that audiologists have been taught to treat patients, benefiting thousands of hearing care professionals in private practices, public clinics and academic settings worldwide. In 2010, a series of independent surveys conducted [...] has demonstrated high levels of appreciation from its seminar participants with regards to seminar format, processes and learnings. In addition, the follow-up surveys confirm that the work of the Ida Institute shows using Ida tools and methods have sustainable, long term benefits to patients. Seminar participants who completed the surveys reported that [...] that they have used the Ida Institute tools in their practice. The most frequently used are the Motivational Tools: The Line, The Box and The Circle (68%) and the Patient Journey (44%). All respondents indicated that they are in some way more satisfied with their practice since they started using the tools, with 37% saying that they are “very much” satisfied

Published: 30-08-2010 14:13

person-centered care and how to support people with hearing loss. The aim of the course is to support lecturers and supervisors as they prepare students to work with individuals and families with hearing loss. The course focuses on putting the client perspective front and center, and provides ready-made lesson plans, videos, handouts, and an instructor’s [...] offers students and professionals with tools that will encourage reflective practice, the development of new abilities and attitudes toward clinical practice, and for students to fully adopt these practices. Structure of the course The overall design and content of the course emphasize interaction and collaboration. The lesson plans and course activities [...] ed Care to Children and Families Family-Centered Care and Listening to the Parent Perspective Family-Centered and Child-Centered Care Age 3-9 Family-Centered and Child-Centered Care Age 6-12 Family-Centered and Child-Centered Care Age 12-18 Person-Centered Care Age 18+ Implementation Module 5 - Tele-Audiology Tele-Audiology and Person-Centered Care

Published: 30-08-2010 14:59

focuses on learning clinical and communication skills simultaneously through the Calgary-Cambridge method. This module also introduces Time and Talk and the Reflective Journal to help students practice effective communication skills and self-reflection. The second and third parts of this module focus on how emotional intelligence and mindful listening skills [...] Module 2 - Audiologist's Perspective It is important for a hearing care professional to understand how they influence clinical interactions and how their attitudes, values, listening skills, self-awareness, and self-reflection can affect outcomes. This module focuses on understanding the hearing care professional’s role in clinical interactions. The first [...] skills contribute to the hearing care professional’s ability to serve patients effectively. Through role-playing and video analysis of communication interactions, students will learn to monitor communication situations (including their own) for communication barriers and pseudo-listening patterns. Finally, this module ends with the importance of health