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University of South Dakota hearing clinic. The tool provides Lindsey with a practical and easy way to record and visualize a patient’s network of communication partners. The Communication Rings tool creates a visualization of the patient’s social network. The exercise allows the patient to consider the people in their social network and to identify the frequency [...] their hearing loss on members of their social network. This is important, according to Lindsey, because many of her patients are unwilling to acknowledge that their hearing loss contributes to communication challenges or impacts the lives of others. “A lot of patients are not really motivated to get hearing aids. We try to tell them that hearing is not [...] Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders department at the University of South Dakota. She has completed both an Au.D. and Ph.D. in Audiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her PhD dissertation explored whether tests used to diagnose dementia can lead to false results if a person has hearing loss. The dissertation is expected to be published

funding of the Ida Institute. This will enable the Institute to continue collaborating with our community to create new educational resources and to further the adoption of patient-centered care methods in hearing care practice.

but the importance of hearing checkups as part of routine medical care. We thank the Ida Institute for their leadership on this project, and appreciate the chance to work with their team to increase public awareness about audiology care.” Please download the poster and show your support for making hearing screenings and hearing healthcare a natural part [...] Monkeys poster to raise public awareness of the importance of regular, hearing screenings. The poster can be placed in a variety of different settings, such as hearing clinics, schools, universities, hospitals, and family medical practices. "The Ideas Competition sparked the creativity and passion of people around the world," said Lise Lotte Bundesen, managing [...] Institute. "All of the ideas focused on bringing hearing health and health loss into the mainstream of public awareness, but we are especially pleased that the clever Three Monkeys poster will be available to the audiology community since audiologists have a special concern in sharing the value of regular hearing care with the public.” Incoming chair of the

overcome barriers to hearing-aid use. Data collection will start in October 2013 and proceed until 2015. The goal is to collect data from 30 patients in the treatment group and 30 patients in the control group. Outcome measures collected will include an assessment of hearing-aid use, a hearing-aid questionnaire, an assessment of importance and readiness to [...] dollars on hearing devices each year, however, many veterans do not use their hearing aids consistently. This pilot investigation will explore whether the Ida Motivation Tools and motivational interviewing techniques can help patients make the behavioral changes necessary to ensure positive hearing-aid use. Once the data is collected and analyzed, the [...] the Ida Line tool and motivational interviewing techniques can lead to increased hearing-aid use in previously unsuccessful hearing-aid users. This marks an important step to further develop a strong evidence-base for using the Ida Motivation tools with patients. The VA Audiology System is one of the largest dispensers of hearing aids in the United

Kristina M. English and John Greer Clark have released a new edition of their textbook on audiologic counseling and rehabilitation. Counseling-Infused Audiologic Care presents a comprehensive overview of counseling principles, emphasizing the critical role of the audiologist in helping patients to understand the impact of their hearing loss and to form their [...] depending on the words that you choose, the demeanor you present, and determining what trust worthiness looks like, feels like, and sounds like,” according to Kristina English. “Patients are often on the fence, at a crossroads, and they could find lots of reasons to run out the door and not take action. You, as the audiologist, might be the one thing [...] provides valuable demonstrations of how counseling and hearing rehabilitation principles can be applied in daily practice. Practicing professionals in the United States can receive continuing education credits from the American Academy of Audiology and the American Board of Audiology by reading the book and taking a series of online tests. In connection

emotional impact of hearing loss at the 2013 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in Peru. As a psychologist and cognitive therapist, Viviana brings a different perspective to the hearing care profession. Her private practice is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she specializes in counseling adults with hearing loss and providing group [...] acquired hearing loss. Viviana’s poster at the World Congress explored the relationship between hearing loss acquired in adulthood with the occurrence of depression and anxiety symptoms. A questionnaire was given to 18 adults between the ages of 40 to 80 years old with moderate to severe hearing loss. The results showed a correlation between hearing loss [...] loss and the onset of symptoms associated with anxiety and depression. Many psychologists and cognitive specialists at the World Congress were amazed with the poster’s findings, according to Viviana. In her conversations, she learned that many cognitive specialists and psychologists had not considered hearing loss as a contributor to symptoms of stress

care and clinical communication, exploring the interaction between audiologists and older adults with hearing loss during consultation sessions. The research is funded by the HEARing Cooperative Research Center in Australia. It falls under a larger project led by Louise Hickson to explore the factors that facilitate or inhibit adult with hearing impairment [...] rehabilitation and hearing aid sales. This finding emphasized the importance for audiologists to take the time to develop the therapeutic relationship with the patient and to let them know that they can trust you and that you are recommending a certain strategy based on their unique interests.” If the first part of Caitlin’s research explored what adults want [...] Meyer, who currently holds a HEARing CRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, to film 60 consultation sessions with 26 different hearing care professionals across Australia. They watched the collected footage and applied the Roter interaction analysis system (RIAS) to analyze the interactions between the audiologist, the patient, and their communication partner

professionals working at private hearing aid dispenser chains across China. "As a new field, qualifications for hearing care professionals and audiologists are not standardized across China. Hearing care professionals working in private dispensers and hearing clinics often have very different levels of qualifications and skills," states Xu Fei, Lecturer [...] audiological practice." Xu Fei is a trained ENT specialist and a Lecturer in Audiology at the Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, one of three schools specializing in hearing and speech science in China. In 2009, Xu Fei attended the Ida Institute's first seminar series on the Process of Defining Hearing. [...] appointments. They just come when they want to and will wait outside the front door until the audiologist has time to see them. This is similar to what occurs at Chinese hospitals. People show up and wait many hours until they are seen by a doctor," states Xu Fei. "Sometimes an audiologist may have one patient, and sometimes they may have up to four or five

first couple of sessions and say ‘I know you are here for these reasons, but are there any other things that you want to learn while you are here?’ We got a lot of good ideas and we found that people were very interested in more information and journal articles on hearing loss. We were then able to supply them with more articles and handouts." You mentioned [...] program and invite AuD students from Cornell University to participate. Rachel Pizarek received her Doctor of Audiology degree at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Her clinical areas of interest include the diagnosis of adult hearing loss, tinnitus counseling and treatment, hearing conservation for musicians, construction workers, and those at [...] Cornell Medical College Hearing and Speech Center, recently used the Ida GROUP tool to organize two group aural rehabilitation sessions in New York City. We recently had a chance to speak to Rachel about her experience. How did you use the GROUP tool to organize the group sessions? "We used the tool’s Quick Start Guide to plan and organize the content

evaluate the reach and impact of the Ida Institute on the hearing care profession. The survey results show that the Ida Institute has made a significant impact on the hearing care profession and the treatment of hearing impaired persons around the world. Thousands of hearing care professionals find the Ida tools and resources valuable and use them in their [...] picture of our impact on the hearing care profession. Our goal was to estimate the number of professionals, students, and patients who have been ‘touched by Ida’. In other words, we wanted to determine the number of professionals and students who have received training on the Ida tools and methods and the number of patients they have seen over the past year [...] demonstrate how Ida is transforming how hearing care is practiced today. In just the past year, our network reported that they had introduced and presented the Ida tools and methods to approximately 4,000 hearing care professionals. Moreover, they reported that approximately half a million patients saw a hearing care professional in the past year who