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importance of adult hearing screenings. “Adult Hearing Screening: Can We Afford to Wait Any Longer?” was written by Brian Lamb, OBE, and Ida Advisory Board member Sue Archbold, PhD, and released in collaboration with Action on Hearing Loss. The report looks at the benefits of hearing technology, the evidence that there is more undiagnosed hearing loss than [...] believed, and the increased use of hearing technology – now at 42.4% for those who would benefit in the UK. Based on the information, the report recommends that hearing screenings be made more readily available. According to research cited in the report, general practitioners fail to refer 45% of those reporting hearing loss to NHS hearing services (Davis [...] (Davis et al. 2007), and hearing screening “was considered more cost effective than the current system of GP-referral.” The report suggests that potential patients would be more likely to investigate hearing difficulties if they could have hearing screenings done at a doctor’s offices, pharmacies, in care homes, or through employers. The increased

introduced and demonstrated our tools and answered questions related to our work. AAA also saw the launch of our Big Messages video competition . The Big Messages are the latest phase of our Vision 2020 process. We asked participants to make short videos about why hearing is important to them. The best video will win an Apple iPad. You can watch and share [...] Patient Journey of Children with CIs and their Families ,” followed up on the Ida Institute’s 2015 seminar, “ Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and their Families .” Participants got to see video interviews with parents of children with CIs, discuss the needs of the families, and saw a demonstration of Ida’s My [...] My Turn to Talk tool. Thank you to everyone who came to the presentation and stopped by Ida's booth. We look forward to continuing the discussion in our Forum .

length of the talk he gave to Ida, but includes updated research and technologies. In his talk, Dr. Lin cites reasons people don’t take action on their hearing loss as: a lack of awareness and understanding cost and affordability access to services and technology technology design and utility He suggests that all of these areas need to be improved upon [...] people take action on their hearing loss. It may help that there has been an increase in interest of the impact hearing loss has on overall health and the community from such bodies as the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and Institute of Medicine. Dr. Lin also proposes that additional models of hearing health care are needed in [...] updated version of his talk, Hearing Loss and Healthy Aging – A public Health Perspective . Dr. Lin gave the talk three years ago to an audience at the Ida Institute in the run-up to our Vision 2020 process. Dr. Lin is an otologyst and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, but his focus for research is gerontology and healthy aging. He presented

Published: 01-04-2016 16:19

focusing on the positives and moving the team forward through conversation can help you be successful. Ideas Worth Hearing Visualize Hearing Visualize Hearing Organize an art exhibition where artists portray hearing loss through art! Ears on Wheels Ears on Wheels Cycling organizations can raise awareness with their members and throughout the community [...] videos, case histories, and reflective exercises. By introducing changes through simple steps, everyone has time to adapt, ask questions, and develop a joint understanding with their colleagues about what is being implemented and why. As a team, you can investigate new and/or improved ways of practicing and adapting to new tools and methods – all while [...] Change Guide and the Appreciative Approach. Introduced in 2013, the Change Guide represents the collaborative thinking of hearing and healthcare professionals from around the world who participated in Ida Institute’s “Managing Change” seminar. The three-part seminar series explored the realities facing audiologists, barriers to change, and strategies

developed in partnership with the South African Audiology Association and the South African Speech-Language and Hearing Association. If a person requests to be contacted we link the closest hearing health providers to the patients and the professionals log the outcome of the request and appointment on our cloud-based data management tool. To date we have [...] of people in South Africa. The app can serve not only as a hearing test but can also be used to remind users to get the hearing checked annually or as a means of outreach who might not have thought to have a hearing test otherwise. “Access to hearing health care and awareness about hearing loss is a major challenge in countries like South Africa,” DeWet [...] has been released in South Africa to test hearing and refer persons with hearing loss to hearing healthcare professionals. hearZA , which was designed by a team at hearScreen that includes Ida Advisory Board member DeWet Swanepoel, is a free mobile app that determines a person’s ability to understand speech in background noise through a digits-in-noise

Published: 30-03-2016 14:42

curious and engage in learning new things. For younger children, this can mean learning about their own hearing and hearing care, and being able to report when amplification devices are not working. Older children will be able to describe different kinds of hearing treatment and how their hearing loss affects their communication. For teens and young adults [...] parents, it can be helpful to meet and build friendships with other children with hearing loss and speak to adults who use hearing technology just like them. Learning to open up about and explain your hearing loss, and the best ways people can communicate with you, is important for the development of friendships and good relationships. These social skills [...] involves the ability to understand and share feelings such as anger, fear, sadness, hope, love, and happiness. For teens and young adults, it can mean being able to manage stress levels in school or college and having a positive acceptance of their hearing loss. It can also mean getting enough sleep and knowing when and how to ask for help. Intellectual

articles and reports about hearing loss, or when talking to a person with hearing loss. You meet those who grieve their reduced hearing, tend to isolate themselves, retire early from the labor market, etc. It seems, really, that many people are not okay with living with hearing loss, yet they do not do anything about it. The complicated hearing process [...] other person to say, without checking, in reality you have withdrawn from hearing what is said. This applies to people with and without hearing losses. People with hearing losses are not the only ones that have difficulty hearing. You manage conversations with your ears Hearing is an active process. You can listen with interest to what is said, pay attention [...] that I have a hearing impairment, and he responded, “I wish it was only that!” That made me understand that my hearing impairment was one thing, but added to this was my great fear of being disqualified as communication partner if the truth of my bad hearing was discovered, and this last fear was in fact more limiting to me than the hearing loss itself

Future . The new tool will help hearing care professionals make themselves future-proof, as persons with hearing loss increasingly expect more flexible and personalized care. Fit for the Future is a product of our Vision 2020 process, which looks at the evolving state of audiology and how practitioners can anticipate and adapt to these changes to the [...] their services and clients. It features My Future Plan, a checklist of ways to make your practice more person-centered and modern. The suggestions in My Future Plan link back to the different areas explored in Vision 2020: Workplace, Telehealth, and Relating in New Ways. There, users can read more detailed information about these concepts and areas, which [...] which were developed in collaboration with the 100 hearing care professionals who participated in the Vision 2020 process. Each suggestion links back to a different subsection of Vision 2020 to offer further inspiration. You can watch videos, read about future trends, and get information on how to implement your new ideas. The print out of your Future

Over 100 participants attended the event, which focused on the prevention of childhood hearing loss and the importance of identifying hearing loss in children as early as possible. This was in keeping with the day’s yearly theme and related materials, “ Childhood Hearing Loss: Act Now, Here is How .” Three case studies of different initiatives from around [...] presented to demonstrate what can be done to help children with hearing impairments. WHO Disability and Rehabilitation Coordinator Prof. Maria Alarcos Cieza also related information about a motion presented by Russian representatives to put hearing loss and the global effect of disabling hearing impairments on the international agenda in the UN. Dr. Cieza [...] Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen recently attended World Hearing Day events at the WHO headquarters in Geneva. The activities of the day included the official launch of the World Hearing Day logo, designed by the China Research and Rehabilitation Center for Deaf Children in Beijing, China, and sourced through a competition hosted by the Ida Institute

focus is first and foremost on preventing hearing loss in active duty soldiers through better hearing protection. “Some of the learnings were really that we have to look at Ida tools and see how they fit into the different VA clinics,” says Sharmi, “because some of them are for these active duty soldiers and some of them are for veterans, and they have very [...] that affects their health and well-being.” “We met some people who were definitely using the lines, and people who loved the box because they felt for young soldiers, especially, the cost of doing nothing needs to be discussed,” says Ida Associate Director Sharmi Albrechtsen. “Many of them don’t want to use hearing aids and are not motivated. So what [...] conference where Ida ran a booth was an opportunity to meet VA audiologists and introduce them to our tools, particularly our recently launched Telecare platform. At the 2015 JDVAC, Ida tools were recommended for use in VA clinics. “Patient centered care empowers Veterans to define and achieve their own lifelong goals,” stated the official recommendation