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across the UK and in Belgium. The training sessions are conducted by the Ear Foundation as part of a collaboration with the Ida Institute aimed at bringing My World to a broader audience, including speech-language therapists and teachers of the deaf. My World is an online tool designed to help children express their experiences with hearing loss, uncover [...] patterns and develop strategies for daily challenges. The training sessions are taking place at cochlear implant centers to teach professionals how to use the tool with their patients. The sessions provide attendees with an overview of My World, how it was developed, and the theory behind it. They will also be taught how use the tool and get a chance [...] World in action will also be shown to demonstrate best practices and provide an example of the advantages of recording patient sessions. A representative from the Ear Foundation is facilitating the workshops. Sessions have already been held at the Southampton Auditory Implant Centre and in Leuven, Belgium. Upcoming sessions will be held at Great Ormond

ENT and Audiology News, Ida Associate Director Ena Nielsen wrote specifically about Ida’s new telecare tools and resources for teens and tweens. The article explains the concept behind Transitions Management and how using Ida’s Telecare for Teens and Tweens tools can help young people self-manage their hearing impairments. Visit our Telecare and Telecare [...] audiology at its basic tenets and explore the different options for using telehealth in counseling and audiology education. There is a particular focus on the possibilities for using telehealth as a way of improving person-centered care, both by increasing the efficiency of the appointments and thus allowing more time for counseling and as a way of extending [...] The Ida Institute has recently contributed two articles to ENT and Audiology News on telehealth. Both articles focus on Ida Telecare , the ease with which clinicians can introduce person-centered care into their practices using these tools, and the advantages to both the professional and their clients. In the current March/April issue, Ida Managing Director

Strategies and Hope to Tinnitus Patients In a two-hour session, Ida fellow Sharon Sandridge, Ph.D, and Ear Foundation CEO and former Ida Senior Audiologist Melanie Gregory will explain the basics of counseling tinnitus patients in productive and encouraging appointments. Friday, 3.00pm. Participants can receive 0.2 CEU. LM405 - Barriers and Facilitators [...] look at new and emerging trends in hearing healthcare with the aim of inspiring professionals on how they can future-proof their practices. Friday, 10.00am. Participants can receive 0.1 CEU. SW 4 - Motivating Clients for Action on Their Hearing Loss with the Ida Motivation Tools This student session will introduce the Motivation Tools and motivational [...] center at location #1109. This year, we are excited to launch the Ida Learning Hall, our new eLearning and interactive space. We will also provide demonstrations of our tinnitus tools and Transitions Management platform. Stop by to say hello and learn about what’s new at Ida.

AudiologyNOW! 2017 has begun and the Ida Institute is here in Indianapolis for the event. We are located at booth #1109, where we will look forward to meeting hearing care professionals and students. Ida staff will be on hand to answer all of your Ida- and person-centered care-related questions, as well as demonstrating tools and giving tours of our digital [...] meeting place where hearing care professionals can learn more about person-centered care. The Learning Hall offers bite-sized learning so users can update their skills on-the-go and invites them to connect, interact, and share knowledge in dedicated communities. Users can accumulate the short lessons over time to complete a module and obtain CEU/CPD points [...] collaboration with academics and clinicians from around the world, is broadening with the addition of two new resources: The Dilemma Game helps people with hearing loss deal with difficult communication situations. Using real life examples from Ida’s extensive ethnographic resource collection, the tool stimulates the users’ thinking and encourages them to come

Institute Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen Friday afternoon at Ida’s exhibition booth. In his speech, Ian Windmill highlighted the significant contribution made by the Ida Institute to the profession of audiology over the past 10 years. “We are very happy and honored to be recognized by the American Academy of Audiology,” says Lise Lotte Bundesen. “It

complete a module and obtain CEU/CPD points from accrediting organizations. Inspired by social media, the platform also makes engaging with content easy. Users can like and share content, favorite items to make them easy to find later, and have conversations around everything posted in the Learning Hall. “Our membership is constantly growing and we believe [...] look very much forward to engaging with new and existing members through this new virtual universe,” says Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. The Learning Hall has launched with two complete eLearning modules on Motivation and Life with Hearing Loss. Each topic also includes additional resources, videos, and tips. We have also launched preliminary content [...] of Ida’s 12,000+ community members have access to the Learning Hall. You can access the Learning Hall by logging into the Ida website and clicking the link to the Learning Hall from Ida’s front page, or by logging in and clicking here.

range of experience and perspectives from within hearing healthcare with her to Ida. She began her career as a speech-language pathologist and audiologist, practicing in both public and private clinical environments. She received her Master’s and AuD from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, and is certified in learning and teaching as well as online [...] director and lecturer at University College London and the University of Cape Town, where her course topics included a focus on aural rehabilitation. Prior to that, she worked as a product manager and trainer for GN ReSound. Cherilee has been active in the Ida community for years and previously participated in our seminars on Change Management and Living [...] Living Well with Hearing Loss. She has also been a member of our Academic Panel and a research collaborator. We look forward to having her expertise in-house, as she will offer insight to Ida’s various projects, tool development, and educational materials. Welcome to the team, Cherilee!

How do patients with hearing loss prepare for their hearing appointments and how might this help? by Helen Henshaw at the University of Nottingham. The project will be a feasibility study of how Ida Telecare tools can be used with NHS audiology patients. Co-investigators: Melanie A. Ferguson, Melanie Gregory, and William Brassington Getting ready for cochlear [...] about managing their hearing loss that are right for them, by David Maidment at the University of Nottingham. The project will look at whether patients who use Why Improve My Hearing? before coming to an NHS clinic have better outcomes than those who do not use the tool. Co-investigators: Melanie A. Ferguson, Eithne Heffernan, and Melanie Gregory How

participants in the use of their devices and communication strategies. The study was conducted over a six-month period with adults with hearing loss aged 60+ to determine what impact a community-led intervention in training participants on how to use hearing devices. Ida’s Line was used as part of the study to measure hearing-related self-efficacy in participants [...] of a pilot study on community-delivered hearing care interventions. Baltimore HEARS study particularly sought out the participation of low-income minority older adults, who statistically only have a 10% uptake of hearing devices, compared to the average 20%. The pilot group consisted of 15 people with hearing loss, each with an accompanying communication [...] be central to amplification. Other metrics investigated through different means included hearing history, technology use, and health literacy. Feedback for the project was overwhelmingly positive, with 93% of participants saying they benefited from the program and 87% said that the program was the reason they were able to use their hearables well. All

Health Assembly has unanimously approved and adopted a resolution on the prevention of hearing loss. This is the first resolution on hearing loss adopted by the WHA in 20 years. The resolution invites the WHO to prepare its first ever world report on ear and hearing care, develop a toolkit for Member States, and support the development of safe listening [...] positive implications for hearing care around the world,” says Ida Institute Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. “The WHO’s commitment to hearing healthcare will support improvements to how hearing loss is prevented and treated globally.” The WHO estimates that 360 million people worldwide live with a disabling hearing loss. Ida continues to support [...] support the WHO’s hearing care initiatives, such as the annual World Hearing Day , and will attend the upcoming stakeholders’ meeting in Geneva in July. Read more about the resolution here.