19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
Interparental consistency of reporting auditory behaviors of children. Do factors such as parent gender and amount of time spent caring for the child affect scores?
In today’s society, parents are playing a more balanced role in childcare. According to Pew Research Center, fathers reported spending an average of 8 hours per week on childcare in 2016. When compared to 1965, this number is up 5.5 hours per week. In addition, the percentage of two-parent families reporting as dual-income has risen to 66% of households, which requires both parents to have working hours. For young children, parents are the primary reporters for how their child is performing with their amplification devices. These reports play an important role in helping audiologists understand the impact of treatment interventions for deaf and hard of hearing children who use amplification devices. Depending upon which parent accompanies the child to a given audiology appointment, subjective parent report measures of auditory behaviors may be completed by one parent only or by both parents at different follow-up appointments. This reality calls into question whether these subjective parent report tools are providing the audiologist with the most consistent and accurate information possible. To the best of our knowledge, no study to date has explored the level of agreement between parents in two-parent families for these tools. Interparental consistency for subjective reporting tools has been studied in other disciplines, such as psychology. This poster explains our project which explores whether factors such as parental gender and amount of time spent caring for the child affect interparental consistency of reporting on auditory behaviors. Given the findings of previous studies conducted on clinical populations in other disciplines, it would be expected that the primary parent (designated by how many hours are spent providing childcare each week) would give a score indicating worse auditory performance compared to the score given by the secondary parent.
- Define primary parent
- Discuss how overall time spent with the child affects parent score
- Name two subjective parent report tools for assessing pediatric auditory behaviors
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Presenter: Sarah Sparks
Sarah Sparks is an educational audiologist within Baltimore City Public Schools. She also owns an online aural (re)habilitation and audiologic counseling-focused telepractice called Audiology Outside the Box.
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Derek Stiles has been Director of Audiology at Boston Children's Hospital since 2014, and Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement since 2021. He leads a team of 30 audiologists, serving 20,000 patients a year across 6 clinical sites in Eastern Massachusetts. He also oversees the directors of the SLP, Feeding & Swallowing, Augmentative Communication, Autism Language, Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing, and Balance Programs at Boston Children's Hospital.
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