17th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 18-20, 2018 • Denver, CO
3/20/2018 | 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM | Audiology in the Trenches: Quick Sheets for Providers and Caregivers | Mineral F/G
Audiology in the Trenches: Quick Sheets for Providers and Caregivers
Children with hearing loss and their families work with numerous professionals during their early intervention years and beyond. Some of the key players providing services to these children are audiologists, early intervention specialists, and speech therapists. Though they share the common goal of increased outcomes for children with hearing loss, their perspectives and professional training differ. Occasionally these differing perspectives can cause less than optimal collaboration. One area for potential communication breakdown is the sharing of information about the child’s hearing levels, listening devices (e.g. cochlear implants, hearing aids), and strategies for troubleshooting if their listening devices are not working properly. At The River School, we’ve developed a few tools to help facilitate collaboration between our audiology team and the direct service providers working with the children, both in our classrooms and during individual therapy. One tool we have developed is Audiology Quick Sheets for every child with hearing loss. They are used to provide concise and practical information about the child’s audiological status to other providers working with the child. These guides help empower the child’s providers to be more knowledgeable about their hearing levels and background history, more comfortable with their listening devices and feel confident initiating some device troubleshooting on their own. During this session we will discuss strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration, specifically between audiologists and other providers working with deaf and hard of hearing children. We will identify key information that we believe should be shared by audiologists with other providers, and discuss the tools we have developed in order to facilitate this information sharing. The presenters will encourage participants to share their experiences with collaboration between audiologists and other providers, and their suggestions for how best to share audiological information with members of the child’s team.
- Participants will be able to describe the roles and responsibilities of audiologists and early intervention/childhood providers.
- Participants will be able to identify strategies that promote collaboration among audiologists, providers and family members that result in optimal outcomes for young children.
- Participants will become more comfortable with reading an audiogram and performing basic troubleshooting with listening devices (e.g. hearing aids, cochlear implants) by using Audiology Quick Sheets.
Presentation:
15805_8060NicoleHutchinson.pdf
Handouts:
15805_8060NicoleHutchinson.pdf
Transcripts:
15805_8060NicoleHutchinson.doc
Presenters/Authors
Nicole Hutchinson
(), The River School, nhutchinson@riverschool.net;
Nicole Hutchinson holds a BA in Linguistics: American Sign Language from the University of California, San Diego and a MA in Deaf Education: Family-Centered Early Education from Gallaudet University. She holds teaching licenses in Deaf Education, Early Childhood Education, and Early Childhood Special Education. At The River School, Nicole coordinates the Parent-Infant Program for deaf and hard of hearing infants, toddlers and their families and teaches in a preschool classroom. Outside of The River School, she is co-chair of the Early Intervention Committee for the DC Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Advisory Board
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Receives Salary for Employment from The River School.
Receives Salary for Employment from The River School.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Sydney Bednarz
(), The River School, sbednarz@riverschool.net;
Dr. Bednarz holds a BS in Communication Sciences and Disorders from St. Cloud University in Minnesota, and a Clinical Doctorate of Audiology (Au.D.) from Central Michigan University. She completed her externship at Boston Children’s Hospital and participated in the LEND program, an interdisciplinary training program dedicated to improve health and counseling professionals’ knowledge on working with children, adolescents, and young adults with developmental and related disabilities. Dr. Bednarz is certified through the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
She participates in the DC Early Detection and Intervention Advisory Board. Her areas of interest in audiology include: early intervention, the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening program, hearing aid fittings, cochlear implant programming, and educational audiology.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.