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you meet your needs. We have many challenges that require your expert handling, ranging from the fear of failure in the sound booth, resistance to technology, and managing group conversations. The payoffs for both client and clinicians are numerous. Your client will benefit from a better overall management of their personal hearing loss, resolution

families and professionals helping young people manage transitions. The use of Ida's ethnographic videos for the education of students and clinicians. Application of Ida’s GROUP Aural Rehabilitation platform. The Research Committee will review applications and select three projects. Applicants may request up to $10,000 USD in funding. Recipients of

heart of the latest Ida Institute innovation workshop, " Understanding My Hearing ," which took place on 4-5 December in Skodsborg, Denmark. Bringing together an international group of people with hearing loss, hearing care professionals and academics, the workshop looked at the role of the audiogram in the appointment and what can be done to improve the

once they leave the appointment, and to make informed decisions with their families and hearing care professionals about further management.” The workshop brings together a group of clinicians, academics, and people with hearing loss to get a broad spectrum of perspectives. Workshop participants include: Louise Hickson, AU Karin Guldager, DK Søren Guldager

self-management of their general health. The PAM was completed both before and after the first hearing appointment. While PAM scores for the control group showed no change after the first appointment, the group that completed Why Improve My Hearing? showed a significant improvement in their activation scores. This suggests that Why Improve My Hearing? improved [...] benefit people with hearing loss. All patient participants in the trial received standard hearing care within the publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS), with the test group completing Why Improve My Hearing? online before attending their first hearing appointment. Patients in both the control (standard care only) and test (standard care plus tool)

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Published: 12-03-2018 12:51

other people with hearing loss about how they manage daily communication Tell people you have a hearing loss Keep up with conversation Plan your day Include your partner Join a group Perspectives and insights Life with hearing loss Watch videos of people with hearing loss talking about their daily life

Christine Hunter is the president of patient advocacy group SHHH in Australia . At Ida’s recent seminar, “The Hearing Journey: What Matters to You?” Christine was able to offer a unique perspective as both a patient advocate and a person with hearing loss herself. We asked Christine to share her experiences growing up with hearing loss, her motivation [...] sounds that I hadn’t heard before such as the birds tweeting in the trees around our home, leaves rustling and my children’s breathing. I felt I was able to be more part of group conversations, and for the first time I realized what I had been missing. That one hearing aid also provided me with the confidence to undertake a casual night course of study [...] to say that it was challenging as well as rigorous, but I had full support from my husband and family and we managed to make it work. I was also fortunate to team up with a group of other mature age students who had begun the course at the same time and we supported each other throughout those years. One had been a stenographer and her shorthand skills

free or low cost. As part of the group that developed our Tinnitus Thermometer at an Ida seminar, why did you develop it as you did and what makes it useful? We have a number of questionnaires we use to monitor how the patient is doing with their tinnitus over time; however they can be lengthy – 25-100 questions. As a group, we thought it would be nice

their answers, which included sharing their most challenging situations and the strategies they would use to cope in those situations. Both the group leaders and the teens found the tools to be useful, with the group leaders commenting that the tools saved time because the teens came in with prepared answers. They also highlighted that teens and tweens could