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doctor’s office, job interviews, and college sports. The camp counselors would act out the situation, such as what not to do in the job interview. After each role-play skit, the group explore what could have gone better during the situation and offer different possible solutions or courses of action. “One student had difficulty with a particular sports coach [...] coach at their high school. The coach did not understand why she did not respond to certain instructions and her teammates did not treat her very well. This led to a dynamic group discussion about how to deal with coaches, teachers, and others who do not know how to relate to someone with hearing loss. It was an eye opening experience,” states Carrie [...] AuD from Arizona School of Health Sciences. She is very active in her community, having co-founded Hearing Impaired Teens Interacting Together, an advocacy and social support group in Stark County, Ohio, United States. She has also collaborated with fellow Stark County audiologists to develop the SPEAK Program (Stark Project for Educating Audition in Kids)

Ida staff presented a workshop on supporting patient involvement to a group of 15 audiology graduate students at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, this week. Senior Audiologist Melanie Gregrory, audiologist Anne Mette Jeppesen, and chief anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen presented different tools, organized activities, and showed different ethnographic [...] ethnographic films and explained the relevance of ethnography in audiology to the group. Participants were taught the Motivational, Communication Partner, and Living Well tools. The daylong session began with a role playing exercise that allowed participants to get to know each other, as well as introducing the communication skills necessary for patient centered

PhD is a professor of audiology at the Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Department, School of Dentistry of Bauru, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is part of a group, in partnerships with Hospital Samaritano in Sao Paulo, piloting an Auditory Rehabilitation Distance Learning Course training hearing care professionals to provide family-centered

Motivation Tools that the research group in Nottingham was using, and saw potential for these tools in our clinic. I thus with the help of our in-house clinic psychologist modified the tools for the use in our clinics.” The clinic measures patient motivation in a two-step process. Level 1 of this process is a group pre-session of six people, where the [...] “quality of life” questionnaire. “We would not have a control group as such but patients will be in either one of the two pathways,” she explains. “Pathway 1 would only have Level 1 intervention and Pathway 2 would have Level 1 and 2 intervention. We are not going to have a control group without any motivational interviewing (MI) as it is difficult

implants.” O’neill previously used the same methodologies on work he published with obesity. “We’re putting together a whole range of evidence to move forward with this action group about adults with cochlear implants,” says Archbold. “We have clinical commissioning groups now, and one of them has recently decided that they would not fit hearing aids for [...] candidacy – currently based on out-of-date technologies – be reviewed and that a national hearing loss screening program for adults be introduced. “We’ve now set up a strategy group to move on with adult cochlear implantation, particularly in the UK, and getting NICE to change the guidelines,” says Archbold. While the study estimated the costs of these

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resources do parents need to make informed decisions for their children at each step along that journey? To explore that question, the Ida Institute invited a multi-disciplinary group that included surgeons, speech therapists, audiologists, teachers, and a psychologist to participate in a family-centered CI Seminar in Skodsborg, Denmark. The 21 professionals

Published: 20-01-2015 14:24

non-judgmental feedback Freely ask for advice Maintain confidentiality Helpful videos Next to each activity, small video clips from a real-life Time and Talk workshop with a group of audiology students at the University of Bristol demonstrate how you can run each session. For more information about how to conduct individual activities and run the workshop

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Reflection and feedback Reflection and feedback Learn how to give good feedback and integrate reflection into the experiential learning process. Group activities Group activities Learn ideas for interactive group activities to engage participants and create a collaborative learning environment. Assessment Assessment Assess your Time and Talk workshop. Did

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their partners what their ideal life would be. They then take turns introducing their partners and their 'fantasy lives' to the rest of the group. Purpose To create an ice-breaker and introduce members of the group to each other. Plan for the day Duration: 10 minutes Please accept marketing cookies to view this content. Aims and agenda Discuss the pa

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clinician is encouraged to overplay the wrong way of doing it and can stop any time and ask for help from the group. Reflection At the end of the role-play, participants playing the clinician and the client say how they felt during the exchange and the group analyzes what was observed with regard to verbal and non-verbal communication. Please accept marketing [...] to view this content. Doing it the right way In the second round, participants role-play the same or a different scenario, this time doing it the right way. Reflection The group reflects on the skills they applied during the role-play. For this exercise they can use the Competency Skills List as a starting point. They may also discuss the skills they