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advocating and promoting audiology in South Africa by building awareness of the role of audiologists and the services available to people with hearing loss. “We are proud of the Ida Institute’s work to integrate person-centered care in hearing rehabilitation and we are thrilled to partner with them to ensure the best possible care to people with hearing loss [...] long-standing reputation for high-quality audiology education and practice, and the Ida Institute is happy to be working with a professional organization that is committed to raising awareness of hearing care among the public and other medical professions.” The formal partnership between Ida and SAAA is the latest in an effort to engage organizations around [...] to develop and promote audiology to the public, medical and educational bodies, and other healthcare professions. SAAA aims to provide professional development support to its members while also campaigning to create awareness of the importance of hearing healthcare. Their public awareness initiatives aim to educate the public, medical and educational

Shari Eberts is a hearing health advocate, writer, speaker, avid Bikram yogi, and member of the Ida community. She is the founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com , an online community for people living with hearing loss and tinnitus. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Hearing Loss Association of America . Over the next few months, she will be [...] what the problem was. Both my father and grandmother had developed hearing loss as young adults. It was my turn. I went to get my hearing tested and was told I had mild hearing loss, too slight to treat. This surprised me since I was struggling in class, but with this excuse at hand, I chose to ignore my hearing issues, preferring denial to action. [...] through my advocacy work and by meeting other people with hearing loss have I discovered the tips and tricks that I use today to lead a productive and happy life despite hearing loss. Person-Centered Care in Four Easy Steps Person-centered care could have alleviated many of the problems I faced in the early years of my hearing loss. In this series of

Audiologist and Clinical Coach at Australian Hearing, Australia’s largest government-funded service providing hearing care, rehabilitation, and technologies. Frances has more than ten years of experience developing and implementing processes, procedures and training in tele-audiology. De Wet Swanepoel, Professor at the Department of Speech-Language Pathology [...] y has continually expanded over the last fifteen years to allow people with hearing loss to access services when, where, and how it suits them best. Telehealth has become an essential component of high-quality audiological services, and is a salient opportunity for hearing care professionals to extend person-centered care. The Ida Institute has launched [...] educators guide students in an exploration of what tele-audiology is, why it is important, and what forms it can take. The practical activities and tools provided enable students to create a concrete plan for implementing tele-audiology in their own context and inspires them to consider how tele-audiology might benefit their clients at different stages

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association in the United States for 198,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and students [...] to be partnering with ASHA, an organization whose reach and influence is respected throughout the speech and hearing community," says Ida Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. "We are also looking forward to beginning our association with an organization equally dedicated to audiology and speech-language pathology. This is an exciting opportunity to [...] Pietranton, says, "Ida Institute's excellent resources and tools are valuable to our members' work with people with hearing loss. Ida's focus on patient-centered rehabilitative care is inspirational, and aligns with ASHA's vision of making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all." One of Ida's first activities as part

The Nottingham Hearing Practice in Nottingham, England is the newest clinic to earn the Inspired by Ida label for person-centered care. Inspired by Ida is a program that guides both hearing care professionals and front desk staff in the fundamentals of person-centered care (PCC) and provides coaching for implementing PCC in their work via tools developed [...] Institute. Successful completion of the coursework and pledging a commitment to PCC principles earns clinics the Inspired by Ida label, a benchmark of quality in person-centered care. We checked in with Jo Herrod, Co-Director and Audiologist to learn more about the Nottingham Hearing Practice’s philosophy and what earning the Inspired by Ida label means to [...] more than 50 years of combined experience from the public and private sectors to the clinic. We share with the Ida Institute the same passion for delivering the best possible outcome for clients and we will always take on board any service, training, and new ideas that can help us maintain and improve upon our ethos. As seasoned professionals, what did

Shari Eberts is a hearing health advocate, writer, speaker and avid Bikram yogi. She is the founder of LivingWithHearingLoss.com , an online community for people living with hearing loss and tinnitus. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Hearing Loss Association of America . Shari has an adult-onset genetic hearing loss and hopes that by sharing [...] to live more peacefully with their own hearing issues. Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter . My name was called and my heart jumped. I was here to get my hearing tested. It wasn’t the first time, but I knew my hearing problems had gotten worse. This time it was likely the audiologist would recommend hearing aids. I didn’t want them, but I knew it [...] time. I didn’t know much about hearing loss or the types of hearing aids that were available. I had never heard of assistive listening devices or communication best practices for people with hearing loss. I expected lots of questions about where and when I had trouble hearing, but the conversation centered on the hearing aids. Did I want them to be visible

parents during the hearing rehabilitation process. Parents whose children acquire hearing loss through cancer treatment must deal with the stress of both cancer and hearing loss. Many of the children will need hearing aids and special support to help their language and speech skills develop. Their parents will need support to provide an environment [...] audiologists and teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children need both person-centered and family-centered awareness and skills and are well positioned to provide limited but important support through collaboration and consistency. Lead Researcher: Dr. Janet Jamieson, The University of British Columbia Co-Investigators: Beth Brooks, MSc RAUD and Dr. Marla [...] value of person-centered care and Ida methods and tools in hearing healthcare. Findings from the research include: Living Well Tool Creates Patient-Centered Framework Researchers explored the way audiologists convey information about communication and hearing loss management in appointments with adults with hearing loss and their communication partners

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care generally in Speech, Hearing and Language Therapy Studies, and more specifically in relation to hearing care. We believe a synergy could further develop between practice, teaching and research — the partnership will undoubtedly benefit our students,” adds Catherine E. Brouwer, Associate Professor and Chair of Speech, Hearing and Language Therapy [...] Language and Communication and the Department of Clinical Research at SDU offer studies on audiology, language acquisition, cognition, and multimodality, and are noted for research on hearing loss and balance conditions. The partnership makes SDU the latest university to join the Ida Institute’s network of collaborators dedicated to making hearing care [...] that is committed to a person-centered future for hearing care.” “The University of Southern Denmark is pleased to enter this partnership with the Ida Institute which will benefit the studies of Audiology and Speech, Hearing, and Language Therapy. We have an excellent relationship with the Ida Institute and we look forward to expanding our collaboration

Learning Hall. This new eLearning course takes a comprehensive look at telehealth in audiology and why it’s an important component of a modern hearing care practice. This includes looking at the practical measures for implementing tele-audiology into your practice and different ways of maintaining a person-centered approach even when you aren’t meeting clients [...] CEUs/CPDs with different accrediting bodies including: American Academy of Audiology, AG Bell, British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists, Audiology Australia, and Health Professions Council of South Africa. Visit the Learning Hall to learn more and get started with the new course. [...] clients face-to-face. The course was developed by Frances Lockhart of Australian Hearing, who recently designed our tele-audiology University Course module . Frances walks through the process of implementing tele-audiology step-by-step, including how to use and implement Ida Telecare tools as a way of incorporating person-centered care in telehealth.