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MirrorintheClassroom:ThroughtheLookingGlass
By Therese Velde on Thu Apr 01, 2010 12:00 PM
We recently concluded the seminar series, Enabling Communication Partnerships and are excited about the tools and knowledge that have been developed in collaboration with more than 70 global participants.
We are pleased to launch these tools at the Audiology Now! Congress in April. The tools will be available at our exhibit and will be presented by Ida faculty Profs. Joseph Montano, PhD, Chief of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at Cornell Medical Center and Jill Preminger, PhD, from University of Louisville, Kentucky; on April 17th. In May, these tools in PDF form will be downloadable from our website.
The Communication Partner Journey tool is designed to support the needs of communications partners at various stages along a patient’s journey of hearing loss. Similar to the Ida Institute’s Patient Journey tool, the interactive Communication Partner Journey template facilitates a better understanding of the wide range of reactions communication partners’ experience – information that can contribute to better understanding for patients within their own social environment.
The Communication Rings tool encourages people with hearing loss to consider how hearing loss might impact their relationships with people in their lives. In addition to helping patients identify the central and supporting players in their networks, the Communication Rings tool enables patients and their hearing care professionals formulate rehabilitation goals that maintain and strengthen essential communication channels.
The Goal Sharing for Partners strategy is a step-by-step questionnaire that assists people with hearing loss and their communication partners to acknowledge the hearing loss and the limitations and restrictions it places on each. By helping them to acknowledge that they are partners in communication, the GPS tool enables the partners to accept their shared responsibility to work together to improve communication, to establish realistic communication goals and to determine the steps necessary to achieve these goals.
Therese Velde, Ida Staff Audiologist
We are pleased to launch these tools at the Audiology Now! Congress in April. The tools will be available at our exhibit and will be presented by Ida faculty Profs. Joseph Montano, PhD, Chief of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at Cornell Medical Center and Jill Preminger, PhD, from University of Louisville, Kentucky; on April 17th. In May, these tools in PDF form will be downloadable from our website.
The Communication Partner Journey tool is designed to support the needs of communications partners at various stages along a patient’s journey of hearing loss. Similar to the Ida Institute’s Patient Journey tool, the interactive Communication Partner Journey template facilitates a better understanding of the wide range of reactions communication partners’ experience – information that can contribute to better understanding for patients within their own social environment.
The Communication Rings tool encourages people with hearing loss to consider how hearing loss might impact their relationships with people in their lives. In addition to helping patients identify the central and supporting players in their networks, the Communication Rings tool enables patients and their hearing care professionals formulate rehabilitation goals that maintain and strengthen essential communication channels.
The Goal Sharing for Partners strategy is a step-by-step questionnaire that assists people with hearing loss and their communication partners to acknowledge the hearing loss and the limitations and restrictions it places on each. By helping them to acknowledge that they are partners in communication, the GPS tool enables the partners to accept their shared responsibility to work together to improve communication, to establish realistic communication goals and to determine the steps necessary to achieve these goals.
Therese Velde, Ida Staff Audiologist
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Comments
I think it is wonderful to have someone as influential as yourself (lecturing capacity and all) empowered and inspired by the Ida concepts, and you are right there in the midst of the audiologists who share our future in this field. I still hope that we can have more Audiologists attend Ida, or at least be exposed to the 'magic' of Ida...have more people who share our passion empowered...this is how we'll all make a difference in the lives of people with hearing loss and be able to change perceptions...we can only hope that my country (South Africa) will also open an active door soon! What an inspiration you are, thank you!
It sounds as if the motivational tools have certailny sparked lively debate for students and good to hear that there is as much to learn from positive observations as areas of challenge. We are developing some question and answer sheets for our tool room for the motivational tools. It would be interesting to know what the frequently asked questions are that your students pose. Could you share some of these with us?
Are these tools from the Enabling Communication Partnerships seminar online? I've seen some of them as the were being created but not the final products. Thanks.
Please I am looking forward to the PDF format of the finished product of the "Enabling communication..." tools.Good Job and keep us posted.
Kindly help me inform Melanie Fergusson that I still expect her mail as she promised.
Regards
Titus.
with every seminar series you people come forth with new ideas and new tools which is really a great job.
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