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Published: 09-08-2010 16:24

Seminar participants explored and reflected upon the concept of client motivation and its application in the hearing care community. During this exploration, participants considered the ability of hearing care professionals to use person-centered care principles and tools to sustain sufficient levels of motivation and enable clients to take constructive [...] action on their hearing loss. Most hearing care professionals are familiar with clients not following recommendations and not using their hearing aids or implementing communication strategies. Instead of recommending, persuading, or convincing the people with hearing loss to change their behavior, research has shown that physicians and counselors should [...] The seminar introduced the Motivation Tools as an effective way for hearing care professionals to help people with hearing loss motivate themselves to take action. The tools can help hearing care professionals identify how important it is for their clients to change their habits and how much the clients believes in their ability to change. The seminar

Published: 09-08-2010 16:24

description of ‘hearing’ and ‘hearing loss’, the series focused on improving our common understanding of how people with hearing loss and hearing care professionals go about defining hearing and the client's hearing loss journey. With help from the Faculty members, the seminar series explored the process of defining hearing and hearing loss by re-examining [...] Defining Hearing The Ida Institute’s first seminar series, the Process of Defining Hearing, consisted of three seminars that took place in September 2008, January 2009, and February 2009 in Skodsborg, Denmark. The seminar explored the many different ways that people with hearing loss and health care professionals define hearing and hearing loss. Instead [...] principles and the clinical encounter. During the course of the three part seminar series, participants collaborated to develop a common definition of a possible hearing loss journey. The seminar participants were asked to identify the different stages and steps that a typical person with hearing loss may experience as they live with their hearing loss.

Published: 09-08-2010 16:23

individuals affected by a person’s hearing loss. The term highlights the fact that hearing loss affects more than just a person’s hearing. It impacts the ability for people to communicate and to relate to others in their social network. As such, hearing loss can have a profound effect on spouses, family members, friends, and work colleagues. These individuals [...] has a hearing loss and often the driving force behind a person with hearing loss seeking help. Seminar participants also reflected on the important role of communication partnerships and the value of focusing on communication challenges rather than hearing problems. By using the term communication partnerships, one stresses the need to view hearing loss [...] Journey . The tools enable hearing care professionals to identify the client’s most important communication partners and to incorporate them into the rehabilitation process. In this way, the tools help hearing care professionals develop a shared, goal-setting strategy for rehabilitation that involves the person with hearing loss and their most important

Published: 09-08-2010 16:20

seminars are a series of educational, interactive workshops where hearing care professionals have the opportunity to collaborate, explore, and develop new knowledge and tools to address the psychological and social aspects of hearing loss. Invited participants include clinicians, instructors, and researchers from around the world, representing a wide range [...] different professional backgrounds in the hearing care community. The seminars are less about instruction and teaching, and more about joint-exploration and collaboration. At the seminars, participants engage each other in an innovative environment to better understand some of the key issues facing the hearing care profession. During the seminars, pa [...] engage in discussions, reflect on their daily practice, and attend lectures from invited subject matter experts. One of the overarching goals of the seminars is to tap the combined knowledge-base and insight of the participants and apply it to the development of new tangible tools for hearing care professionals. At the conclusion of each seminar, we

people with hearing loss to consider how hearing loss might impact their relationships with people in their lives. In addition to helping patients identify the central and supporting players in their networks, the Communication Rings tool enables patients and their hearing care professionals formulate rehabilitation goals that maintain and strengthen [...] Partnerships and are excited about the tools and knowledge that have been developed in collaboration with more than 70 global participants. We are pleased to launch these tools at the Audiology Now! Congress in April. The tools will be available at our exhibit and will be presented by Ida faculty Profs. Joseph Montano, PhD, Chief of Audiology and Speech Language [...] essential communication channels. The Goal Sharing for Partners strategy is a step-by-step questionnaire that assists people with hearing loss and their communication partners to acknowledge the hearing loss and the limitations and restrictions it places on each. By helping them to acknowledge that they are partners in communication, the GPS tool enables

potential partnerships with attending universities to collaborate on projects, studies, papers and new findings in areas that have the most relevance and greatest impact for hearing care, hearing care professionals and, most importantly, people with hearing loss. “We see tremendous potential for young audiologists preparing to enter workforce to benefit [...] tools developed by the Ida Institute through our seminars and collaboration with experts in audiology and other healthcare disciplines,” states Ida Institute Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. “Through partnerships with universities in the U.S. and other countries, we aim to inspire networking and new ambassadors to further the Institute’s goal of generating [...] already begun to develop Modules that will contain a variety of education materials to enable educators, clinicians and other hearing care professionals to conduct training sessions for students, staff members and individuals with hearing loss.”

Published: 21-09-2009 16:15 by Sharmi Albrechtsen

interactivity, copywriting and ease of use, the annual WebAward competition recognizes outstanding corporate and nonprofit websites that are judged against Internet standard and peer sites within their industry. Our website, as you may know, is a unique multi-media web site that includes an extensive extranet featuring forums and networking platforms for [...] presentations, educational tools and articles. The site was launched in October 2008 and today has had nearly 10,000 visitors world-wide. The site supports the work of the Ida Institute, a nonprofit organization funded by the Oticon Foundation that focuses on the human dynamics of hearing loss. Its main audience are hearing care professionals around the [...] who work through a process of professional collaboration finding new angles of inquiry on hearing loss and its impact. ‘We are extremely pleased with the results from Webaward, the feedback on our website has been excellent thus far and we have several new and exciting features for our members that will be launched next year,’ said Lise Lotte Bundesen

Published: 11-08-2009 15:59 by Sharmi Albrechtsen

the August publication of Hearing Journal, Dr. Tine Tjørnhøj Thomsen published an article based on her lecture on Framing the Clinical Encounter. Drawing upon findings from the medical arena and her experience as an anthropologist, she provides insight to help hearing care professionals re-examine the way they practice today and strengthen their ability [...] build positive relationships with their patients. The article explains a theoretical model that contributes to understanding the wider context in which professionals operate and to finding a holistic approach to treatment.

Published: 30-06-2009 17:29 by Sharmi Albrechtsen

explore appropriate options, and develop solutions that benefit the practitioner and the patient. She points out that reflective practice has been implemented successfully in other health and caring professions to develop self-awareness and to improve critical thinking and the ability to make judgements in complex and uncertain situations. The Reflective [...] from www.idainstitute.com. My Ida membership is required to access the Reflective Journal and other online tools. Membership is free at www.idainstitute.com and open to hearing and health care professionals and all others interested in the human dynamics of hearing loss. “We encourage practitioners to print multiple copies of the Reflective Journal to [...] resource that would encourage hearing care professionals to reflect in a deliberate and analytic way on their interactions with patients following each encounter, “ states Ida Institute Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. ““The notes they make in response to the journal questions can help practitioners learn from their experiences and make their practice more

Published: 30-06-2009 17:27 by Sharmi Albrechtsen

The Ida Institute invites hearing care professionals around the world to share their successful approaches to helping patients and their families understand and appreciate the implications of the simple audiogram. Best practices, unique approaches and innovative techniques will be shared on www.idainstitute.dk. In addition, the Ida Institute will reward [...] sharing that will benefit both practitioners and patients.” Bundesen notes that discussion among hearing care professionals at Ida Institute seminars about the challenges associated with explaining the audiogram was the catalyst for the call for submissions. Members of the Ida Institute Advisory Board will review and select the winning submission as well as [...] to one of the nonprofit organization’s upcoming seminars in Skodsborg, Denmark. “On the patient journey of people with hearing loss, the audiogram can be a valuable, illuminating map that empowers patients to address their hearing loss from an informed position,” says Ida Institute Director Lise Lotte Bundesen. “Through this ‘open call’ for best clinical