2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
Implementing Visual Supports to Aid in the Audiologic Evaluation of Children with Developmental Disabilities
Traditional audiological assessment, which is based on assumptions of typical development, can be challenging with children with developmental delays, resulting in inability to obtain accurate or complete audiological testing and potentially delaying intervention. Visual supports help prepare children by demonstrating what to expect and allow for repeated exposure to new environments and activities, which eases anxiety and stress for a child with developmental delays.
McTee and colleagues (2019) created visual models and supports to facilitate audiology appointments for obtaining behavioral measures for children with developmental disabilities. The supports included images and videos of audiology testing to alleviate caregiver and patient stress. The published work has yet to collect data on the effectiveness of these tools in clinical practice. This study’s aim is to evaluate the effectiveness and perceived satisfaction with use of these visual supports to facilitate obtaining a complete hearing test for children ages 30 months to 7 years with developmental delays.
Evaluation of parent satisfaction and the effectiveness of use of visual supports is evaluated via qualitative data collection of parental report as well as quantitate data of whether the patient could complete the audiometric testing with visual supports. If numbers allow, we will compare to a control group of children who receive treatment as usual (i.e., no visual supports). We hypothesize that use of visual supports prior to audiology appointments will reduce parental stress and assist in obtaining additional audiometric information as compared to the use of no visual supports.
- Participants will understand why visual supports are helpful for children with developmental disabilities
- Participants will learn what visual supports can be used to support audiologic testing
- Participants will evaluate whether visual supports are useful in improving audiologic assessment in children with developmental disabilities
Poster:
3353554_15108RileyCorcoran.pdf
Presenter: Deborah Mood
Deborah Mood, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with Developmental Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in school psychology from University of Northern Colorado and a specialist degree in school psychology from Gallaudet University. Dr. Mood completed a LEND psychology postdoctoral fellowship at JFK Partners, University of Colorado School of Medicine, after completing an APA accredited psychology internship at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in working with children who are deaf and hard of hearing as well as children with a variety of developmental disabilities including autism spectrum disorder. Current research projects focus on the complex comorbidity of ASD among children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
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• Receives Salary,Grants for Employment from University of Colorado Anschutz.
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Riley Corcoran(she/her) is a current Audiology Doctoral Extern at the Children's Hospital of Colorado and is completing her AuD at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She is participating in a fellowship rotation through the Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program through the University of Colorado. Riley has a background in education and working with children with neurodevelopmental differences. Her passion includes multidisciplinary work and developmentally appropriate diagnostic procedures in audiology appointments.
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Andrea Gatlin is a clinical audiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado in Colorado Springs. Her clinical interests include working with Deaf/Hard of Hearing Plus children and their families.
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Emily Nightengale joined the Bill Daniels Center for Children’s Hearing at Children’s Hospital Colorado as an Audiologist in July 2010. She has 9 years of experience as an audiologist specializing in pediatric diagnostic evaluations and management, and she obtained her Pediatric Audiology Specialty Certification in 2012. Emily participates as the audiology consultant for the Sie Center for Down Syndrome at Children’s Hospital Colorado and has been actively working on parent support groups/clinics, quality improvement projects, and publishing research. Emily is also active in audiology student supervision and mentoring. Prior to joining the audiology team at Children’s Hospital Colorado, Emily was a clinical audiologist at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Emily received her Doctor of Audiology degree from Rush University in Chicago, Illinois in June 2008.
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