2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/05/2019 | 4:20 PM - 4:45 PM | Part 2 - Achieving Early Cochlear Implantation & Maximizing Outcome: A Multi-disciplinary Approach | London
Part 2 - Achieving Early Cochlear Implantation & Maximizing Outcome: A Multi-disciplinary Approach
Early access to sound through cochlear implantation transforms the lives of deaf children. Confirming candidacy and providing effective support to families is critical to early implantation. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s cochlear implant team uses a multi-disciplinary approach to minimize barriers to implantation and to support recipients. We were one of the first to implant children with additional special needs. More than 1800 pediatric implantations have been done at our medical center. A multidisciplinary panel will use cases to illustrate evaluation and management of infants and young children, including those with additional disabilities and parents with lower socioeconomic status and/or who are non-English speaking. Overview of a recent study of anesthetic safety, surgical complications and mode of communication attained by 219 children were first implanted below 37 months of age will also be presented. Results support an advantage to implantation of children below 12 months of age to achieve oral communication, as well as the safety of implantation of young children.
Participants in this course will include surgeons, cochlear implant audiologists, bilingual speech language pathologist, social worker and educator. Cases will include children who are medically complex and families facing challenges that interfere with access to community and medical center based early intervention and medical services. Examples of a multidisciplinary approach to family education and support to enable implantation and enhance progress after implantation will be provided.
Part 2 will focus on outcomes of children who were first implanted under 37 months of age. A multi-disciplinary panel will present case examples highlighting results of the study.
- Discuss anesthetic safety for CI surgery
- Review outcomes for children implanted under 12 months of age
- Discuss multi-disciplinary approach to managing CI candidates and recipients under 37 months
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Presenters/Authors
Brandi Sidor
(Co-Presenter), Ann, bsidor@luriechildrens.org;
Brandi E. Sidor, M.A., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVEd- is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Educator. Brandi received her Master’s Degree from the Western Michigan University Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2003. She has been LSLS certified since 2012. Brandi provides aural habilitation to children with hearing loss using a variety of communication modes and provides coaching and education to their families. She joined the CI team at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago in August 2014.
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Jennifer Haney
(Co-Presenter), Cochlear Implant Team Education Liaison, jenh1082@hotmail.com;
Jen Haney, MA, DT-H is the Education Liaison for the Cochlear Implant Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is a licensed teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing and credentialed Early Invention evaluator and provider. Jen holds, a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Organizational Change from Roosevelt University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in deaf education from Illinois State University. Jen joined the Cochlear Implant Team in November of 2015 and provides support to families regarding educational decisions. She also collaborates with educational teams keeping them up-to-date regarding a variety of aspects pertaining to cochlear implants.
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Denise Thomas
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, dthomas@luriechildrens.org;
Denise Thomas, Au.D., CCC-A is a Senior Pediatric Audiologist and the Clinical Coordinator for the Cochlear Implant Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She completed her training at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Denise has been with Lurie Children’s for fifteen years and provides a full range of audiology services to cochlear implant candidates and recipients. Her areas of interest non-traditional pediatric CI candidates and development of the Audiology Externship Program at Lurie Children’s.
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Nancy Young
(Co-Presenter), Lurie Children's Hospital Cochlear Implant Center, young.nancy@comcast.net;
Nancy M. Young, M.D., is the Lillian S. Wells Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is head of the Section of Otology and Neurotology, and Research Director, in the Division of Otolaryngology at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is a Fellow of the Knowles Hearing Center and an affiliate member of the Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences of the Northwestern University.
Dr. Young founded the Lurie Children’s pediatric cochlear implant program, one of the largest in the United States. She is a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. She co-edited, with Karen Iler Kirk PhD, Pediatric Cochlear Implantation: Learning and the Brain, published in 2016. Dr. Young’s current research collaborations are focused on use of brain neuroimaging to predict language outcomes after cochlear implantation.
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Steve Hoff
(Co-Presenter), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, shoff@luriechildrens.org;
Stephen R. Hoff, MD, FACS, FAAP, is a Pediatric Otolaryngologist with a focus on Pediatric Otology. He did his Fellowship training at Stanford University, and joined Lurie Children’s in 2011. He is the director of the Lurie Children’s Microtia and Aural Atresia Clinic, and does ear reconstructions and hearing restoration for children with microtia/atresia, including osseointegrated implants. He is internationally recognized for his experience with Endoscopic (Minimally-Invasive) Ear Surgery for children with hearing loss and chronic ear disease, and has been collaborating with Nancy Young as part of the Lurie Children’s Cochlear Implant Program.
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