2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
| Social Story: Wearing My Hearing Aids
Social Story: Wearing My Hearing Aids
Providing education surrounding hearing loss and hearing aids is a strong skill for audiologists. When compared to deaf and hard of hearing children without developmental disabilities, children with developmental disabilities require different tools to build self-advocacy skills surrounding their hearing. The goal of this project is to promote self-advocacy skills for children with developmental delays through use of a social story about wearing and caring for hearing aids. Social stories have been shown to increase appropriate behaviors in children with developmental disabilities. For example, social stories have been used to promote oral hygiene in children with developmental disabilities (Zhou, N., Wong, H. M., & McGrath, C. (2020)). Based on the paradigm for social stories developed by Carol Gray (Gray, 2015), the social story provides developmentally appropriate information about wearing and caring for hearing aids and auditory benefits of hearing aid use. Additionally, to reduce the risk of bullying, examples of how to talk about one’s hearing loss and hearing aid are modeled (Spangler, C. L., & DeConde Johnson, C. (2017)). The face and content validity of the social story was evaluated by audiologists. The social story will be publicly available. Future research to better understand its efficacy for use with children with developmental differences is encouraged.
References:
Zhou, N., Wong, H. M., & McGrath, C. (2020). Efficacy of Social Story Intervention in
Training Toothbrushing Skills Among Special-Care Children With and Without Autism. Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research, 13(4), 666–674. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2256
Spangler, C. L., & DeConde Johnson, C. (2017). Reducing Vulnerability to Bullying for Children and Youth Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2(9), 72–82. https://doi.org/10.1044/persp2.sig9.72
Gray, C. (2015, November 02). What Is A Social Story? Retrieved December 12, 2020, from https://carolgraysocialstories.com/social-stories/what-is-it/
- Discuss the use of social stories for children with developmental differences
- Recognize the need for self-advocacy building tools for children with hearing loss
- Understand how to use this tool to build hearing aid self-advocacy for patients with developmental differences
Presentation:
23278_13736KalieBuchman.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Kalie Buchman
(Primary Presenter), Children's Hospital Colorado; Rush University, kalie_buchman@rush.edu;
Kalie Buchman is an audiology graduate student at Rush University. She received a Bachelors of Science from Nazareth College in Rochester, NY and is currently completing her 4th year externship at Children's Hospital Colorado. Her clinical interests include self advocacy and education for pediatric patients.
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