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Ear Foundation and Darcy Benson, owner of California Hearing Center and Audiology Services. In addition, the new board includes chairperson Louise Hickson and members De Wet Swanepoel, Deborah Ferrari, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Uwe Hermann and Lu Beck. The full-day meeting included a round-up of Ida activities from the past year and new projects we [...] properties by Uwe Hermann, Ida’s Telecare platform, and De Wet Swanepoel’s HearZA app, which now features our Why Improve My Hearing? tool. Finally, the board discussed ideas for new workshops and topics for the next call for research proposals. We are always grateful for the insights provided by our board, and look forward to an exciting year ahead. [...] their own experiences and research from the year, as well as giving updates regarding the healthcare systems in their respective countries. Presentation at the meeting included research on implementing a standard of family-centered care in Australia, by Louise Hickson; the Ear Foundation’s Spend to Save report by Mel Gregory; and telehealth, including

The tool also directs to resources and information for both patients and professionals . The tool is a product of the workshop, Balance Challenge: Working towards a clinically effective person-centered care pathway, which Ida hosted in Leicester, England, in October. Held in collaboration with the Ear Foundation, and with sponsorship from Interacoustics [...] , the Balance Challenge brought together a multidisciplinary team of NHS employees, heads of departments, and hearing care professionals with the aim of finding patient pathways for balance patients. We will continue to roll out more tools and resources for vestibular patients in the coming months. [...] disorders. The BPPV Signpost is a postcard to help clinicians identify benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in their patients. BPPV is the leading cause of vertigo, and can often be triggered by a patient turning over in bed. The BPPV Signpost asks two simple questions about what triggers a patients vertigo. These questions, combined with a

teens and young adults with hearing loss and equip them to make decisions related to their hearing loss that are right for them. The tools can help teens and tweens prioritize which communication situations they would like to improve and who the key people in their lives are to help them accomplish this. By sending the Telecare for Teens and Tweens [...] for Teens and Tweens . The platform includes new versions of My Turn to Talk, Why Improve My Hearing?, and Living Well Online, reformatted for young adults. The tools are adaptations of our popular Telecare platform, reformatted to help a younger audience describe how they are affected by the hearing impairments and what their daily lives and communication [...] you can extend your care beyond your clinic. Giving young adults a structured way to think about their hearing and daily interactions outside of the appointment can lead to more efficient, productive conversations when you do meet, as the teens and tweens will already be prepared for the discussions. Ida will be launching mobile-optimized versions of

England, and was hosted by the Ear Foundation. Ida Learning and Innovation Specialist Jamie Owen gave the presentation, “Facilitate and understanding of hearing loss from the child’s point of view: The My World tool.” The presentation covered the finer details of My World from its inception, through its basis in play therapy, and into its aims and objectives [...] families when determining if a cochlear implant or bone-anchored hearing aid is right for their child. My World can play a key role in helping a child explain his or her experiences with their hearing impairment, pre- or post-implantation. Thank you to the Ear Foundation for the invitation and the chance to share our work. [...] video, Eileen Rall – who participated in My World’s development – uses the tool with 9-year-old Ashlynn, and learns how Ashlynn manages the different personal relationships in her life. Participants had an opportunity to reflect on the video and how it demonstrates the different ways My World can be used to facilitate appointments with young clients

in Paris. In between her years at UNESCO and prior to joining Ida, Jeanette spent 10 years at Widex first as a corporate communication advisor and later as a group communications manager. We are excited to learn what perspectives she can offer Ida based on her broad understanding and experience of the hearing healthcare industry. We are also keen to [...] as projects like the Big Messages and other on-going communication. Jeanette has a background in communication and journalism, with a degree from the University of Southern Denmark. She is also fluent in French, having studied the language to a Masters level at Aarhus University – having studied at the Sorbonne and the Institut d’Études Politiques de

person-centered care pathway, in Leicester, England. Held in collaboration with the Ear Foundation, and with sponsorship from Interacoustics, the Big Balance Debate brought together a multidisciplinary team of NHS employees, heads of departments, and hearing care professionals with the aim of finding patient pathways for balance patients. The workshop looked [...] Fellow, Imperial College London Natasha Harrington-Benton – Director, Meniere’s Society Ida is continuing to collaborate with participants to produce tools and materials to support vestibular patients and clinicians. One of these items will be a postcard with two simple questions to help diagnose Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). Research has [...] articulate the details of the dizziness the experience can help lead to more accurate diagnoses. These tools will part of a larger section on the Ida website related to balance and dizziness. Check back soon for more information.

, hallways, and assemblies among other spaces. Senior Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen and web editor Amanda Farah Cox visited Laycock Primary School in London, Grantham College in Grantham, and met with recent graduates at the Ear Foundation. There they met with children ages 7-11, teenagers from 16-18, and young adults aged 23 and 24, who all [...] all shared their experiences in education with a hearing impairment. Ida also had the opportunity to meet with teachers of the deaf, who discussed milestones they hope to see their students reach, and teachers of the deaf who have hearing impairments themselves and were able to reflect on their own experiences with transitions. The videos will be a part [...] Transitions Management platform, which will help parents, children, and young adults prepare for the changes involved in moving from one school to another, or from school out into the work force. Thank you to everyone who made Ida’s visits possible, in particular Suzanne Harrigan, Sue Brownson, and Debbie Norman. The Transitions Management platform will launch

support people with hearing loss and revenue lost to years those people are unable to work because of their hearing loss. “Spend to Save” continues in this line of research, but looks at figures from across Europe comparing the rate of hearing loss, hearing instrument up-take, and additional health care expenditures as a result of hearing loss going untreated [...] Save: Investing in hearing technology improves lives and saves society money.” The report, written by Brian Lamb, Sue Archbold, and Ciaran O’Neill, looks at a Europe-wide strategy for promoting hearing technologies in order to reduce healthcare costs. Previous Ear Foundation reports have looked at the cost of not treating hearing loss, focusing on what [...] majority of countries, hearing loss is directly associated with additional healthcare costs. However, the report highlights that in Denmark, which has a high uptake of hearing aids as they are readily supplied by the national healthcare system (and where the Ida Institute is based), there is actually a negative cost to hearing care. This suggests that

the development of our Telecare platform. The presentation will look at how patients and hearing care professionals can both benefit from the use of teleaudiology, but will address the challenges and opportunities in equal measure. Attendees will be introduced to the Ida Telecare tools, which will also be demonstrated. The Telecare tools can be used [...] telemedicine. Ida Innovation and Learning Specialist Jamie Owen will cover how telehealth in audiology can be approached from the perspective of person-centered care. The presentation will offer an introduction to telehealth in audiology, revisit Ida’s Vision 2020 process – in particular our Telehealth work stream – and how that work stream led to the [...] used at different stages of a client’s journey, whether the first appointment, a follow-up appointment, or as maintenance, and are thus are a flexible way to keep patients engaged in their rehabilitation. Ida’s presentation will take place on Saturday, 8 October. Registration is still open for the conference. To learn more, visit the IAPA2016 website

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Telecare for Teens and Tweens You have probably seen a lot of doctors and specialists about your hearing, but no one understands what life is like with your hearing impairment better than you do. By using the Ida Telecare tools to get ready for your next appointment, you can make sure that you discuss the things that are most important to you to help [...] your successes and challenges with your hearing impairment. This will help ensure that your needs and concerns are taken care of. Your answers will also help your audiologist so that they can recommend the best treatment for you, whether that's new technology, communication strategies, or additional support from your family, teachers, and friends. What [...] in the appointment and who do you communicate with? http://idainstitute.com/apps/wimh_teen_en/ Why Improve My Communication? How would improving your hearing and communication effect your daily life? For Tweens https://apps.idainstitute.com/apps/lw_tween_en Living Well Online Tweens When is it easy or hard for you to communicate and what can you do to