19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
Family Friendly Medical Clinics: Reducing Barriers to Service
This poster will provide guidance for care providers who work with children and families with disabilities, including hearing loss, on how to create a family-friendly climate in a culturally-responsive way.
Visiting clinics and seeking medical support tend to be stressful for children and their families (Henize et al., 2018; Rodriguez et al., 2012; Sherwin, McKeown, & Evans, 2013). Previous research has demonstrated that reducing stress in medical clinics may increase the effectiveness of medical interventions (Johnson & Leather, 2005). Children and youth with special health care needs are twice as likely to have an unmet medical need than typically developing children (Kuo et al., 2014) as well as an undiagnosed hearing loss (McClimens, A., Brennan, S., & Hargreaves, P., 2014) These children face unique challenges to accessing medical services (Silow-Carroll, 2016). To date, there has been no systematic literature review on how to foster a family-friendly climate in a culturally-responsive way in medical settings. There has been limited literature exploring how medical clinics may alter their design or procedure to be more accessible to children with special health care needs.Thus, this presentation is a comprehensive overview of interdisciplinary research studies, including architecture and design projects, and interviews with families that have children with special health care needs.
The Joanna Briggs Institute’s model of scoping review protocol (Arksey & O’Malley, 2019) will be used as a methodological framework.
Results will be compiled into a generalized list of suggestions for improving clinical settings to make them more family-friendly. This review will aim to foster a more comfortable, accessible space for families of children with special health care needs. By focusing on changes to design and procedure, clinics may improve patient care, family comfort, and interactions with children.
- Participants will identify ways to create family friendly clinical climate.
- Participants will describe a scoping review.
- Participants will apply ideas to clinics in their own environments.
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Presenter: Diana Diakow
I come from Poland where I completed a five-year MA program in Applied Developmental Psychology as well as a three-year BA program in Applied Linguistics with the specialization in Arabic at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Currently, I am a doctoral candidate in School Psychology at the University of Montana. My research interests focus on refugee children's mental health, multicultural clinical psychology, and culturally-responsive interventions for children with neurodevelopmental and mental health disorders. I have worked in public and private schools, clinics, residential and foster care settings, non-profit organizations, relief agencies, and refugee camps in Poland, Slovakia, Ireland, Indonesia, Greece, Iraq, Cyprus, and the United States. My goal is to facilitate the delivery of psychological aid to forcibly displaced children and minority groups through designing trauma-focused and culturally-responsive intervention programs.
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Robyn Herbert is currently a Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology program at Washington State University (WSU). She received my B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Kansas and her M.S. in Clinical Psychology at WSU. Her research centers primarily around how family variables (e.g., maternal depression) affect the behavior of children with externalizing disorders. Additionally, how executive functioning moderates symptom severity and presentation in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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Eileen P. Engh; is the Program Manager for the Department of Nursing Science and Professional Practice located in the Innovation Center at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. She completed her BSN at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and continued her graduate education at the University of Pennsylvania Nursing and Wharton in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Utah College of Nursing in SLC, working to complete her PhD. A former pediatric nurse in the Children’s National ER, she developed a discerning lens caring for children and families, including those with neurocognitive disabilities or rare conditions. As a current URLEND program trainee plans to develop and apply know-how and expertise that moves beyond disciplinary boundaries. She is committed to advancing science and our understanding of families’ life course experiences as parents of children with rare diseases and undiagnosed conditions.
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I am a second year Doctor of Audiology student at Idaho State University. My current interests include pediatric audiology, especially when working with children with autism or other special health care needs, humanitarian audiology, and aural rehabilitation.
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Rebecca Sieruga is a fourth year graduate student at Idaho State University working on her Au.D. She did her undergraduate work at Idaho State University where she graduated in 2018 with an Honors Bachelors of Science (B.S.) in Communication Sciences and Disorders and an AS in Sign Language Studies. Her undergraduate Honors Thesis was titled The Current Status of Idaho Audiologists’ Knowledge of the Deaf Community and Culture. She has worked with California Department of Rehabilitation Youth Leadership Forum for the past several years. Rebecca would like to use her education to work with children who have hearing or other communication disabilities.
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Dr. Mary M. Whitaker is a clinical professor at Idaho State University (ISU). She has been an audiologist for over 30 years. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech and Hearing Science from University of Utah, a Master of Science in Hearing Science at University of Arizona, and Educational Specialist in Special Education from Idaho State University, and a Doctor of Audiology degree from the University of Florida. Currently, she teaches coursework in educational audiology, genetics for health care professionals, and counseling in audiology. She is a clinical supervisor, the Externship Coordinator and the Program Director in Audiology. In her early career she worked in a rural outreach program providing audiological services to public health, migrant headstart, preschools and headstart programs. She was employed by the Pocatello, ID school district as an educational audiologist. Currently, she works in the ISU Hearing Clinic where she sees infants through adults.
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