The Process of Defining Hearing
The Ida Institute’s first seminar series was titled The Process of Defining Hearing. The series 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 of developing a new definition or concept based on a medical 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 person-centered care 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. The Ida Institute compiled the input from the seminar participants and created a composite map, which was later released as the Possible Patient Journey tool. In this way, the Patient Journey tool serves as a good representation of some of the knowledge sharing and knowledge creation that took place during the seminar series.
Seminar Lectures
Client's Perspective
Kristina English on greater understanding of the client's perspective and feelings associated with hearing loss.
Collaborative Self-Management
Harvey Abrams explores ways to help people with hearing loss take charge of their condition.
Framing the Clinical Encounter
Tine Tjørnhøj Thomsen talks about the supra/sub-context surrounding the clinical visit.
Reflective Practice
Discover how reflection can add value for both the professional and the client with Christine DePlacido.
Relationship-Centered Care
Kristina English on the theory and benefits of Relationship-Centered Care.
Faculty Members
Kristina English, Author of four books, twelve chapters, and over 100 papers. Active with the American Academy of Audiology.
Christine de Placido, Lecturer and program leader for Audiology Department at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
Harvey Abrams, Former Director of Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center at the VA Healthcare System Medical Center in Bay Pines.
Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Tool Room
The collaborative effort of the Defining Hearing Seminar Series resulted in the development and creation of the Patient Journey tool.
Reflections
Downloads
 | DePlacido - Aural Rehabilitation: Person Centered or Cost Effective |
| Wolters, Campbell, DePlacido, Liddell, Owens - Making Speech Synthesis More Accessible to Older People |
| Pew-Fetzer Task Force - Health Professions Education & Relationship-Centered Care |
| Harvey Abrams - Collaborative Self Management |
| Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen - Framing the Clinical Encounter |
| Kristina English - Relationship Centered Care |
| Christine DePlacido - Reflective Practice |
| Kristina English - Client's Perspective |