17th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 18-20, 2018 • Denver, CO
3/20/2018 | 1:45 PM - 2:10 PM | Getting the Most From Your Audiology Appointment | Mineral D/E
Getting the Most From Your Audiology Appointment
Help your audiologist help you! What information do you need to provide to your audiologist and what information do you need from your audiologist to ensure success for your child and their hearing need?
How can you, a parent, help your audiologist ensure that your child is getting what they need? How can you look at your baby's development and see if your choices are working, and what information do you need from the audiologist to ensure appropriate development and referrals to help your child?
In addition, as you go through your journey as a family and as a parent, your audiologist should be able to support you when you need it, help you with loss and grief, and provide you with information to help you help your child.
Particular information will be provided for families whose children have been diagnosed with EVAS, CMV, etc. and how to deal with progressive losses. It is important to know how to assist your child with the feelings and issues that come with a progressive loss or loss that has changed in some way, and family suggestions will be provided to also help prevent further loss (with EVAS).
A great working relationship with your audiologist can last a lifetime; it is a partnership with the same goal: ensuring you and your child have the support you need to be successful.
- Identify the Information that Can Help Your Audiologist Help You
- Understanding the on-going relationship with audiologist and what the audiologist can do to ensure your child has access to information as an infant, toddler, and school-age child.
- Providing support for family and child on this journey
Presentation:
15805_8037KathleenJohnson.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
15805_8037KathleenJohnson.docx
Presenters/Authors
Kathleen Johnson
(), Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind, kjohnson@msdb.mt.gov;
Kathleen Johnson, M.S. has been the audiologist at the Montana School for the Deaf and the Blind for 37 years. She was an educational audiologist prior to this in Great Falls, Montana. She has also served as a parent/infant advisor for deaf/hard of hearing babies and their families. In addition, she has been the Montana Director of the Healthy Hearing Program for Special Olympics for the past 11 years. A highlight of her career was attending the World Special Olympic Games in Iowa.
As part of the School Outreach services, she can provide audiological and consultative services to any child from birth to 21 years of age who resides in Montana at no cost to the family or school district. This means some travelling in a large, beautiful state that only has 45 or so audiologists to cover it! Yes, it does mean that she has made ear mold impressions in gas station and grocery store parking lots in rural Montana and tested hearing in countless speech rooms, music rooms and janitor's closets. She goes to school each day with many of her
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Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.