Enhancing Group AR Programs with Ida Tools

By Timothy Cooke

Vicki M. Anderson added the Communication Rings and other Ida tools to her clinic's group aural rehab program. The tools help participants identify…

Reducing Anxiety of Hearing Clinic Appointments

By Timothy Cooke

UK Audiologist Ben Mann has created a book to reduce the anxiety of children with social communication disorders when they visit a hearing clinic.

Be…

Building Capacity of Hearing Care Services in North Korea

By Timothy Cooke

Over 600 million people in the world suffer from hearing loss. Approximately 80% of those with hearing loss live in low or middle income countries…

Debut of Motivation Tools in South Korea

By Timothy Cooke

Ida Fellow Jiwon Chang presented the Ida Motivation Tools at the 19th Combined Congress of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in Busan, South…

Nottingham Hearing Unit Wins Prize at BAA Conference for Poster on Motivation Tools Research

By Timothy Cooke

The Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit won first prize in the clinical science poster category at the British Academy of Audiology Conference…

SIARC Group AR Workshops Offer Students a Fantastic Learning Experience

By Timothy Cooke

Group audiologic rehabilitation can be a fantastic way to enable hearing impaired persons to self-manage their hearing loss. On top of that, group…

Designing the Future of Hearing Healthcare

By Timothy Cooke

By 2020, patient-hearing care professional relationships and health care delivery may look significantly different than it does today. The future may…

Vinaya Manchaiah Presents Research on Patient Journey

By Timothy Cooke

Ida Fellow Vinaya K.C. Manchaiah successfully defended his PhD research on the patient journey, hearing disability acceptance, and the…

Ida Website Wins Fourth International WebAward

By Timothy Cooke

The 17th annual WebAward competition has honored the Ida Institute with a Standard of Excellence Award in the Nonprofit Category. This is the fourth…

MythBusters Shows Patient-Centered Care Can Be Good for Patients and Business

By Timothy Cooke

We have taken on common misconceptions about the challenges of integrating a patient-centered approach into day-to-day clinic practice in a new “Mythb…

Audira Think Tank Proposes a New Social Norm for Hearing

By Timothy Cooke

How can we encourage people to take action on their hearing and approach hearing healthcare solutions?

The Audira Think Tank for Hearing, founded by…

Kim Marie Nicols Raises Awareness of Hearing Loss Among Elementary Students

By Timothy Cooke

Introducing students to the topics of hearing loss and hearing protection at a young age can help transform attitudes and social norms for an entire…

New Online Community Aims to Increase Awareness of Audiologic Rehabilitation

By Timothy Cooke

Peggy Ellertsen is building an online learning community to increase awareness of hearing loss and audiologic rehabilitation in the Boston…

Community Outreach: Walking For Hearing in Southwest Ohio

By Timothy Cooke

In celebration of Audiology Awareness Month in the United States, we are featuring stories of people who have raised awareness of hearing loss in…

Visualizing Social Networks: Lindsey Jorgensen and the Communication Rings

By Timothy Cooke

Lindsey Jorgensen has introduced the Communication Rings tool into her daily routine with patients at the University of South Dakota hearing clinic.…

Oticon Foundation Continues Support of the Ida Institute

By Timothy Cooke

The Oticon Foundation is pleased to announce that it is committed to continuing funding of the Ida Institute. This will enable the Institute to…

Celebrate Audiology Awareness Month with Three Monkeys Poster

By Timothy Cooke

The Ida Institute has collaborated with the American Academy of Audiology Foundation to create and distribute a poster based on one of the winning…

Launch of VA Research Project on Ida Motivation Tools

By Timothy Cooke

The U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, is conducting a two-year research project to explore whether using the Ida Line tool and…

English and Clark Release New Book on Audiologic Counseling and Rehabilitation

By Timothy Cooke

Kristina M. English and John Greer Clark have released a new edition of their textbook on audiologic counseling and rehabilitation. Counseling-Infused…

Viviana Maller Presents New Research on Emotions and Hearing Loss

By Timothy Cooke

Ida Fellow Viviana Maller recently presented a poster on the emotional impact of hearing loss at the 2013 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive…