2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/14/2022 | 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | eHealth Coaching to Support Parents in Developing Effective Routines for Hearing Aid Management | Room 10
eHealth Coaching to Support Parents in Developing Effective Routines for Hearing Aid Management
For children who are developing spoken language, consistent audibility through well-functioning hearing devices is essential. In fact, children have been found to have better language outcomes when they use their hearing aids 10 or more hours per day (Tomblin et al., 2015). Behavior change needed to incorporate new habits into daily life; however, can be challenging. Parents frequently report practical and emotional challenges that create barriers in implementing daily routines for hearing aid management. Audiologists have a responsibility to educate and support parents through these challenges. Supplemental education and support can be delivered through tele-audiology (Muñoz et al., 2020), and can be advantageous as parents are dispersed geographically, and more frequent visits to the clinic may not be feasible.
In a randomized controlled trial, Muñoz and colleagues (2021) explored parent acceptance of and outcomes from an eHealth educational intervention, that incorporated supportive accountability through coaching phone calls in a six-week intervention for hearing aid management and compared outcomes to treatment as usual. The intervention was delivered successfully with low drop out, high session completion, and high treatment fidelity. Furthermore, parents in the intervention condition showed greater gains for knowledge, confidence, perceptions, and monitoring related to hearing aid management from pre- to post- measures. In this presentation we will discuss the findings from the coaching phone calls, including challenges parents reported, coaching strategies used to support parent learning, and clinical implications.
- Identify parent challenges with hearing aid management
- Identify communication strategies to support parent behavior change
- Describe clinical implications related to supporting hearing aid management
Presentation:
3353554_14955KarenMunoz.pdf
Handouts:
3353554_14955KarenMunoz_x.pdf
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Karen Munoz
(InPerson), Utah State University, karen.munoz@usu.edu;
Karen Muñoz is department head and professor of audiology at Utah State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education. She is also associate director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management. Her research focus is in the area of childhood hearing loss.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Grants for Other activities from Utah State University.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Kali Markle
(Virtual), Utah State University, kali.markle@usu.edu;
Kali Markle is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Audiology and a Pediatric Audiologist who obtained her AuD at Indiana University. Her roles in the Sorenson Center are extensive. A majority of her time is spent in the clinic supervising graduate students and seeing patients in the Pediatric and Cochlear Implant Clinic.
Kali provides diagnostic evaluations for children birth to 21 years of age, fits hearing aids, bone conduction devices, FM systems and works with cochlear implants. She also serves as the educational audiologist for USU’s Sound Beginnings, which is a Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) Preschool. She collaborates often with the Speech and Language Clinic and serves as a provider with the Integrated Assessment (IA) team. Kali is passionate about the pediatric population and providing intervention and appropriate referrals. She strives to provide patient centered care (PCC) to all families while working collaboratively with other related fields.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Kylie Rich
(), Utah State University, kylie.rich@usu.edu;
Kylie is a 2nd year audiology graduate student at Utah State University. She previously graduated with her bachelor's degree in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education in 2020.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.