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Falkingham blazed through her two-year term as president of the British Academy of Audiology (BAA), steering the organization towards greater cooperation with other audiology bodies, securing regional BAA reps throughout the country, and entering partnerships with organizations like Ida along the way. As she walks away from leading the UK’s largest or [...] from the last two yours are you most proud of? Regional groups. Getting our regional group leads in place again so that over the next six months we will have a meeting in every area of the UK for local audiologists to learn together. I hope the group leads feel valued. We ran an Ida train-the-trainer workshop with them so we can disseminate the principles [...] these last two years? “I’m an audiologist.” I’ve been working towards greater unity for the audiology sector, and although we have stepped off to reevaluate where we are going with this theme, I still believe that the UK needs a more coherent voice and should work together to have a louder voice for audiology and the people we serve in the UK. Which project

” Foster agreed, saying, “I really enjoyed the day and being introduced to the Ida tools. They look great and we now have a clear, city-wide focus and can use the tools to help support our families and patients through their journeys.” At the end of the workshop, Nielsen concluded, “It was exciting to work with such a diverse team and discuss what it [...] and difficulties throughout their day. Facilitating change Nielsen also presented the Change Guide , which helps hearing care professionals introduce the concept of PCC to their team and implement Ida tools through a step-by-step process. She then led the group through an Ida change process, which allowed them to create an overall vision, look at what [...] The Ida Institute recently delivered a workshop on person-centered pediatric care to a group of 40 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, educational audiologists, community workers, and teachers of the deaf. The goal of the workshop, which took place in Leeds, UK, was to support hearing care professionals in working in a person-centered way and

also created new video and animation content to make the materials suitable for use in the Brazilian context. In the next phase of the project they began assessing the courses’ efficacy for teaching motivational interviewing. Initial results suggest there was an increase in students’ evaluation of the importance of motivational interviewing and also in [...] instructional video aids for her final year capstone project to illustrate how the Communication Partners tools can be implemented in the appointment, and how they can work together to guide the person with hearing loss and their partner along their hearing loss journey. Student attitudes toward PCC Also under the direction of Patricia McCarthy, PhD, [...] At the Ida Institute we are committed to supporting clinicians of the future by always expanding our resources for lecturers , developing new modules for self-guided or blended learning approaches , and materials to support clinical supervisors . We also support student projects across the globe to foster the translation of PCC into action. Patricia

foundational element of audiology and speech-language pathology and highlights the importance of introducing the concept to students early in their education. “The approach we used in the book is to reinforce the implementation of patient- and family-centered care across the entire rehabilitation journey with any patient and family member who has a c [...] literacy from different angles, from legibility of fonts to the language that is used. As the students reading the book will be treating those with communication disorders, the emphasis is on clear and meaningful language. The final chapter of the book is dedicated to treating families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and how understanding [...] health literacy. The textbook takes a contemporary blended learning approach. In addition to the reflective exercises, videos incorporated into each chapter bring in PCC experts from around the world, giving the textbook a global perspective. Patient and Family-Centered Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is available now through Thieme.

work led to the establishment of a joint roadmap that will lay the foundation for the collaboration in the coming year. Activities include the establishment of a common PCC definition for policy making, standards and funding; the creation of a platform where professionals, academics, and decision makers can share information about PCC; the development [...] ” said Managing Director of the Ida Institute Lise Lotte Bundesen in her opening address. The power of networks The ambition of the network is to enhance the quality of hearing care by promoting a culture that strengthens the voice of patients in hearing care and empowers them to participate actively in their own care. The network will allow members [...] what will make the difference in what we can achieve,” said Melanie Gregory, Group Head of Audiology, Leightons. Strengthening the patient’s voice The participants made a plea for strengthening the voice of the patients in all aspects of hearing care. “Hearing care must be grounded in the reality of people. Today, patients are often ‘the last to know

When Robert Flaherty spent a year in the Arctic producing Nanook of the North, he couldn’t have imagined his film would birth the ethnographic documentary genre that would illuminate everything from the lives of commercial fishermen and the effects of mass tourism to living with cerebral palsy and the Juǀʼhoansi bushmen of the Kalahari . But it’s no wonder: [...] and in their clinical work. The videos get the students invested in the rehabilitation process and demonstrate the importance of patient-centered care. Further, it helps them see how hearing loss can have deep, significant emotional and social effects on the person with hearing loss and their communication partners." The videos are also used for in-clinic [...] context in the form of environment, time, words, actions, reactions, and body language. The end results can then be considered from as many viewpoints as there are viewers. Observing interactions The Ida Institute began making ethnographic videos about hearing loss in 2008. The videos, which are freely available , provide unique insights into the thoughts

half of the patients passing through Shahrzad’s clinic have tinnitus. She believes her person-centered approach is part of the reason for her success. “My clinic is a piece of the world, the way I wish it was,” Shahrzad says between patients. “The staff are a close-knit group who help people because that’s what they believe people should do.” The goal [...] worked in the Hollywood film industry, came into the office. She was desperate. Her tinnitus felt like it would make her head explode. Shahrzad and Raechelle decided to track Raechelle’s reactions to the tinnitus every day with the Tinnitus Thermometer. Raechelle realized that it wasn’t bad all the time or even every day. Through journaling and the use of [...] figure in the Jewish community. Her grandfather, notably, was a physician to Mohammed Reza Shah, the last Shah of Iran. As a shy but rambunctious five-year-old, Shahrzad loved listening to Michael Jackson and riding her bike in the family’s large backyard. Other than going to school, she wasn’t allowed to play beyond its walls often as the country was

actively into their routine practice. The second workshop in May is with WITS, University of Pretoria, and Sefako Makgatho University in the northern part of the country. This is a follow-up to one we did at the beginning of the year where we tried to find ways of making supervision more student centered and enable PCC in the student and university clinics [...] us about the workshops? Yes! We have an exciting few months of workshops coming up! The first workshop in May is with the speech pathology and audiology department of Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. Bara is the world’s third largest hospital and the speech-language pathology and audiology team consists of approximately 40 staff members. At the workshop [...] graduating, and spending 15 productive years in the UK, she returned to South Africa and eventually joined us here at the Ida Institute. She now uses her skill with active listening, open-ended questions, empathy, understanding, and her years of experience as an audiologist, to teach others how to bring out stories and find the truth in their patients. This

our popular Transitions Management resource Growing Up with Hearing Loss and updated it with a new chapter for ages 0-3. Growing Up with Hearing Loss focuses on the significant times of change in the life of a child with hearing loss. The platform provides insight into new environments, social needs, and the new skills needed in ages 0-3, 3-6, 6-9, 9-12 [...] on a developmental stage, making it easy to recommend only the most relevant content to your client. The new chapter of the resource deals with the first three years of a child’s life. From ages 0-3, babies and toddlers are becoming increasingly aware of their environment and acquiring the building blocks to develop language, emotions, social skills [...] abilities. Parents meanwhile, are learning what their child needs to thrive. Growing Up with Hearing Loss 0-3 is a useful resource to help parents recognize the changes and challenges of their baby or toddler and provides suggestions to help them support the child’s development. The platform, which was developed by an international team of audiologists and

counseling courses within their programs in the past six years. “Each year since the first edition of this text was published there have also been rising numbers of continuing education courses highlighting the value of counseling to address the psychosocial concerns of patients and families as well as the importance of augmentative non-technological [...] s of counseling scenarios, while the clinical insights offer holistic approaches to different challenges. “It is our hope that the new edition of the text will move audiologists beyond the bounds of content counseling or information transfer,” said the authors. “We would like to see more audiologists be comfortable with personal adjustment counseling [...] counseling, which is squarely within the realm of audiology practice and fully aligned with the principles of person-centered care. Personal adjustment counseling helps audiologists to more fully engage pediatric patients, their parents, and caregivers, or adult patients and their communication partners, through the growing array of rehabilitative strategies