19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
3/10/2020 | 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Sound Support | Chicago B
Sound Support
In 2003, the University of Michigan Sound Support Program began a successful partnership with Michigan Medicaid to improve the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of treatment received by children who are deaf and hard of hearing with Medicaid in the state of Michigan. Sound Support provides on-site collaboration and training to professionals and to patients with hearing loss and their families throughout Michigan, with a strong focus of assisting professionals who work with children enrolled in Michigan Medicaid.
We collaborate with several state agencies, including the Michigan Department of Education’s Low Incidence Outreach program, to offer a series of monthly webinars that cover a variety of topics related to hearing loss. This collaboration has been highly successful, resulting in education and training of up to 80 professionals in a single webinar. Based on that success, we expanded our webinars to include webinars for parents. We are currently developing a webinar specifically for Special Education Program directors about hearing loss.
We are in the fourth year of our Partnership Program. This program was developed following discussions with Michigan EHDI and with members of Michigan Early On regarding ways Sound Support could provide more direct training to professionals who serve the needs of children with hearing loss in Michigan. A total of 8 professionals a year are enrolled in the program, which includes the development of a one-on-one relationship and mentoring from members of the University of Michigan Sound Support team.
We build on the tradition of outreach and assistance that started in previous years by continuing to offer school visits (approximately 100 per year), in-services, outreach events, and our webinar series. Additionally, we provide organized learning events such as the Partnership Program year-end conference, and audiology and speech-language pathology roundtables. Currently, we are working on hosting on-site hearing workshops in under-served communities.
- The learner will identify 2 ways webinars can be used to improve treatment for children with hearing loss.
- The learner will list one way in which a collaborative on-site school/ daycare / home visit with an educational and a medical team member can benefit a child who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
- Discussions with MI EHDI and MI Early On led to Sound Support’s Partnership Program so that more ________ ____________could be provided to professionals working with children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and their families.
Presentation:
21060_12564EllenThomas.pdf
Handouts:
21060_12564EllenThomas.pptx
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Terry Zwolan
(), University of Michigan, zwolan@umich.edu;
Dr. Zwolan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Director of the Cochlear Implant Program at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Audiology from Northwestern University in 1989 and has worked at the University of Michigan since 1990. She is actively involved in patient care, research, and administrative needs of the program. To date, more than 1,100 patients have received a cochlear implant at the University of Michigan. Dr. Zwolan has authored several papers on cochlear implants that focus on clinical management of children and adults, and has authored several book chapters dealing with various topics related to cochlear implants.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Nonfinancial -
Ellen Thomas
(), University of Michigan, ellent@umich.edu;
Ellen Thomas is a senior speech-language pathologist and LSLS Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist at the University of Michigan She specializes in working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and using an Auditory-Verbal approach. At Michigan Medicine, she is a member of the cochlear implant team and active on the program’s outreach grant Sound Support. Ellen received her Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She completed certification in Auditory-Verbal Therapy in 2000. She currently serves on the AG Bell Academy board.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Consulting fee,Speaker for Teaching and speaking from Institute for Cochlear Implant Technology/Hearing First.
• Receives Salary for Employment from Michigan Medicine.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Professional (board member)
relationship for Board membership.