2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
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Using Narrative Medicine to Inform Best Practices in Early Intervention
While writing my book, Remedies for Sorrow, which is about our daughter who was born deaf due to congenital CMV, I realized that our daughter's providers either listened intimately or remained vaguely detached from our family. Those who impacted our lives knew our family’s detailed story—and often, we knew some of theirs. As I came across the field of narrative medicine in my research, I realized its tenets could be applied to any field--audiology, early intervention, even parenting itself. When we listen to and tell the story of illness as cultural,
personal, and complex, both provider and patient are transformed. In this talk, I'll discuss the three (quite simple) ways to implement narrative medicine, in what I'll call "narrative early intervention”; use writing exercises for participants to fully articulate their experiences; and give providers new enthusiasm for the paramount work of shaping a child's world through communication.
- To give an overview of the tenets of narrative medicine
- To help providers use literature to adopt alien perspectives and improve compassionate care
- To empower parents to tell their own stories as part of early intervention for their child
Presentation:
3478265_16223MeganNix.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Megan Nix
(Primary Presenter), Doubleday, nix.megan@gmail.com;
Megan Nix is the author of Remedies for Sorrow, an investigative memoir published by Doubleday in 2023. Remedies for Sorrow was a PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of 2023 and an Amazon Editor's Pick in Best Biographies and Memoirs. Megan's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Denver Post, and elsewhere. She is a mother of five (the second of whom was born deaf due to congenital CMV), and she divides her time between Colorado and Alaska where her husband is a fisherman.
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