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teaches and researches at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where her focus is family centered care. She has a speech pathology background and obtained her PhD from the University of Queensland. Nerina has also been involved with Ida for years, participating in our Patient Centered Care: Fluff, Fact, or Fiction? seminar, and more recently [...] parison study, looking at improving rehabilitation outcomes for older adults with hearing loss and their family members using a family centered care approach. The team is Christopher Lind from Flinder’s University, Louise Hickson, Carly Meyer, and myself from UQ, and Mel Gregory, from the Ida Institute. One of my big roles while I’m here as the visiting [...] that’s available for family members of children with hearing loss. Even though we think naturally that children with hearing loss and their families will receive family centered care, I did another project, where, actually, they’re not necessarily. The parents are there because they have to be there and rarely were the intervention needs of the family members

use of clear, graphic language and color, which make it friendly and inviting. The panel included Bo Linnemann, founding partner and design director of internationally renowned design firm Kontrapunkt; Dr. Maria Alarcos Cieza Moreno, the coordinator for Disability and Rehabilitation at the World Health Organization; and Ida Institute Managing Director [...] December 2014 and January 2015. International Ear Care Day was established in 2007 following the First International Conference on Prevention and Rehabilitation of Hearing Impairment in Beijing. The date was selected as the shape of the numbers – 3.3 – resembles two ears. Every year, International Ear Care Day addresses a specific theme and carries out [...] out an extensive range of activities with broad participation in order to raise awareness of hearing care and the prevention of hearing loss. Congratulations to the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Deaf Children team!

transitional phases in a child's life and how to navigate them. The framework will also provide clinical support tools for hearing care professionals, children and young adults with hearing loss, and their families. The framework will help these different groups develop the knowledge and skills required for children and young adults to learn to manage t [...] For children with hearing loss and their families, however, there are additional challenges to navigate as well as the usual adjustments children go through as often as one year to the next. With this in mind, the Ida Institute has begun work on a new Transitions Management project. Focusing on the different social stages children and young adults move

Published: 16-04-2015 17:13

Worth Hearing From the editor The Hearing Care Manager of the Future Hearing healthcare is changing. Advances in technology and access to hearing care services, the relatively low percentage of people with hearing loss who take action, and the changing population are among the main reasons for this change. In times of change, we need new ideas and new [...] about the hearing aid) · Makes their value recognized and works towards public awareness of good hearing · Redefines themselves from running a hearing clinic to running a shop · Acknowledges the new ageing population (75 years old is not old anymore) · Is competent and confident in skills base and counseling Outside Their Comfort Zones As hearing healthcare [...] that hearing care managers of the future could become communication specialists who would follow with patient care throughout the lifespan. Newborn hearing screenings are already standard practice, but if the relationship between patient and hearing care professional continues beyond that point, patients would come to know and trust the hearing care

audiology and what the enhanced role of the audiologist will be in the future. This included discussing changing trends in healthcare -- including technological advances – and how audiologists can continue to bring patient centered care into their practices. We tied in the concept of being “Future-Proof” with an advertisement for the hearing care manager [...] Now! Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The Friday morning session, called Creating the Future of Hearing Health Care, was a chance to share the work we’ve been doing with our Vision 2020 process. Speakers included Dr. Louise Hickson, Dr. John Greer Clark, and Dr. Patricia McCarthy, who were all participants in Vision 2020. Ida Managing Director Lise Lotte

nal Ear Care Day. The European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association , in cooperation with the European Hearing Aid Professionals and the European Federation of the Hard of Hearing , updated the Three Monkeys poster for IECD to feature a woman covering her eyes, mouth and ears. The original Ideas Worth Hearing poster is itself inspired by the [...] Teeth checked, eyes checked, but what about your hearing? It has been nearly two years since the Three Monkeys were chosen as the winner of our Ideas Worth Hearing competition as a way to remind people to get their hearing checked as regularly as they visit the dentist and optometrist. We’re very excited to see the idea is still going strong, having [...] no evil, and hear no evil. The updated posters were distributed across Europe and in 12 different languages for the annual event on 3 March. The Three Monkeys poster originally came out of our Ida Ideas Worth Hearing competition in 2013. The concept was submitted by Curtis Alcock as a way to raise awareness of the importance of regular hearing tests.

of passage – separation/detachment, liminal phase, and reintegration – as they learn about their hearing loss, decide to take action on it, and ultimately learn to live well with it. It requires recognizing a new reality and being caught in an in-between phase before adjusting to using hearing aids and techniques to help them cope in noisier settings [...] the hearing care manager as a guide who helps the patient through these transitions. He compares them to Obi Wan Kenobi or Gandalf, figures who not only recognizing the significance of the change in the lives of those they are guiding, but also help them to smoothly navigate their new course. “Based on the outcomes of our Hearing Care Manager and Tele-health [...] Graduations, marriages, and visits to the audiologist: We might not view them in the same light, but they are all milestones in our lives. These watershed occasions are the topic of Ida Institute Chief Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen’s article, “Rite of Passage: An Alternative Approach to Rehabilitation,” in the latest issue of Audiology Today

during the last week of February to wrap up our Vision 2020 process. We devoted a day and a half each to both the Hearing Care Manager of the Future and Tele-health, where the participants took inspiration from outside presenters, participated in team-building activities, and dreamed up projects for further development. The meetings were an opportunity for [...] g virtually in August of last year – to exchange ideas and share experiences gained in both the clinic and the classroom. “I felt the ideas put out by the participants were realistic and the experience gave me hope that audiologists will define our place in the new model of service delivery and work to future-proof our profession together whilst creating [...] ogy, educational platforms, and how tele-audiology can give clinicians more time to focus on the therapeutic aspects of treatment. We are currently working on organizing and expanding the projects designed during the meetings. We’re looking forward to sharing the resulting tools and materials with the Ida community, and we’re still developing the final

technology such as Bluetooth and FM systems with hearing instruments. “Part of living well with hearing loss is the ability of the patient to identify what is important and critical in their own life and how their hearing loss may be impacting their ability to participate in that particular activity,” she says. “Hearing aids and cochlear implants provide [...] As hearing aids become more sophisticated, so does the technology that supplements them. But how do patients and their audiologists know if this added tech is helpful for the hearing aid user? In her recent article for Seminars in Hearing, “Benefits of Integrating Wireless Technology with Hearing Instruments,” Carrie Spangler, AuD, describes using Ida’s [...] Ida’s Living Well and My World tools with patients to find what important situations they have difficulty hearing in. Using the tools led to suggesting wireless technologies as one of the strategies for improving their hearing. “Utilizing the Living Well and My World tools allows the patient and professional to enter into a dialogue of what is important

different families and worked with local ethnographer Rosie Blake while in Cape Town. We are very thankful to Ruth Bourne and staff at the Carel du Toit Centre for making these films possible. Both films will make their debuts at our seminar, “Successes, Gaps and Challenges in CI Rehabilitation: The CI Journey for Children and Their Families,” and will later [...] interviewed families with children with cochlear implants to learn about their rehabilitation processes, their daily lives, and what is being done to meet their needs. “These films provide a lot of insights into the challenges and where the gaps are,” says Hans Henrik. “What’s needed for parents to improve this journey they’re on with the child? Before [...] his parents struggled to get a diagnosis that would grant him a CI operation. Despite taking him to ENTs from before he was a year old, his hearing loss was misattributed to a series of middle ear infections, and he did not get cochlear implants until he was three years old. His story focuses on the parents’ frustration of the late diagnosis that delayed