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Title: 'Preparing Professionals for Working with Children who are Multiply Involved' Track: 8 - EHDI Workforce Issues Keyword(s): professional development, audiology, multiply involved, children, pediatrics Learning Objectives: Abstract: This poster will explore several professional development areas essential to prepare pre-service trainees for working with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. The poster will focus on the following topic areas: proper intra-disciplinary education and training, interdisciplinary experience, cultural competence, and legal knowledge/ethics. The purpose of this poster is to highlight critical aspects of a training program that provide comprehensive instruction for healthcare professionals working with this population. The orientation and focus of professional preparation in this area goes far beyond the traditional intra-disciplinary training that commonly takes place. This poster will provide information for professors, clinical preceptors, trainees, and current professionals to improve the quality of training in their respective programs. In audiology, for example, improved education in these topic areas is essential due to the co-morbidity of hearing loss and other disabilities. The clinical caseload of health care professionals who work in interdisciplinary special needs settings is likely to include challenging needs that far exceed those of traditional, single-discipline clinics. With the additional immigration of many families from other countries, cultural perspectives and attitudes have taken on increased importance. More frequently than before, conflicts may arise between the evidenced based procedure training promoted by university training programs and clinical protocols, cultural perspectives, and ethical priorities of family-centered care. These factors require a more expansive foundation of knowledge and training than those of 20 years ago. Through detailed information and examples for each topic area, this poster will provide suggestions that can be implemented to help strengthen content in current training programs, and to help produce professionals who are more competent and knowledgeable in providing services to children with a variety of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Presentation: This presentation has not yet been uploaded or the speaker has opted not to make the presentation available online. Handouts: Handout is not Available
PRESENTER(S) / AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION
-             ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Nonfinancial - Bianca Gomez - POC,Co-Presenter,Author Mailman Center for Child Development      Credentials: AuD/LEND Student      Other Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Audiology and Speech Pathology             ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exist. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist. Sarah Laurello - Author Mailman Center for Child Development      Credentials: AuD/LEND Student      Other Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Audiology and Speech Pathology             ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Nonfinancial - Cory McNabb - Author Mailman Center for Child Development      Credentials: M.A., AuD/LEND Student      Other Affiliations: Department of Pediatrics, Division of Audiology and Speech Pathology             ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Nonfinancial - Robert Fifer - Author University of Miami      Credentials: Ph.D.       Robert C. Fifer, is the Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Deaf Education. His M.A. is from Central Michigan University in Audiology, and his Ph.D. is from Baylor College of Medicine in Audiology and Bioacoustics. Dr. Fifer’s clinical and research interests focus on the areas of auditory evoked potentials, central auditory processing, early detection of hearing loss in children, and auditory anatomy and physiology. He is a Past-President of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a member of ASHA’s Health Care Economics Committee, and the ASHA representative to the American Medical Association’s Health Care Professions Advisory Committee for the Relative Value Utilization Committee in addition to being ASHA’s representative to the AMA’s Practice Expense Advisory Committee.       ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Nonfinancial -