2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
10/24/2016 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | The Ear, Hearing, and Tools to Help Educate Children about Hearing and Hearing Loss | BGPOP Building 4A/B/C
The Ear, Hearing, and Tools to Help Educate Children about Hearing and Hearing Loss
Hearing plays an essential role in communication, speech and language development, and learning. Even a small amount of hearing loss can have profound, negative effects on speech, language comprehension, and communication.
Over 360 million people in the world have a disabling hearing loss, yet very few people have a clear understanding about how the ear works, hearing, or audiology in general. It’s never too early to educate students about the ear, hearing, hearing loss, support services, and how to protect their hearing.
This presentation presents basic audiology concepts and terminology. I then demonstrate a fun interactive way to describing the different parts of the ear and basic principles of hearing. Lastly, I provide basic information on three resources available teach students, empower them, and assist them in learning to effectively advocate for themselves.
Knowledge is Power is a program to help students learn about their hearing loss. The goal of Knowledge is Power is to move students from basic information about anatomy, hearing loss, and hearing aids to dealing with their feelings about loss, grief, and self-esteem to self-reliance and personal responsibility.
The Guide to Access Planning program is designed to help teens and young adults learn how to effectively advocate and be responsible for their communication access supports and hearing assistance technologies. “Dangerous Decibels” is a program that uses the principles of inquiry-based learning to teach the concepts of prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. Students discover just how important it can be to “Turn it Down!”, “Walk Away,” and how to “Protect Ears”.
There is no one way to educate but sharing the information through fun and interactive presentations can help others learn and change attitudes and behaviors of youth and adults.
- Identify the parts of the ear and describe how they work
- Describe the type and degree of hearing loss
- Have a basic awareness of 3 program available to educate and empower students related to the ear, hearing, hearing loss and technology.
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Presenters/Authors
Angie Mister
(), CNMI Public School System , angie.mister@gmail.com;
Angie Mister, Au.D CCC-A has been an audiologist with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Public School System for 21 years. Her position includes the coordination of audiological screenings, comprehensive hearing evaluations, fitting and management of hearing aids as well as providing support services to students with hearing loss birth-to- twenty-one. Dr. Mister assists educational teams in program placement decisions and participates in multidisciplinary team meetings. She counsels families, students and school personnel about the effects of hearing loss, both within and outside the classroom environment. In addition to this work, Dr. Mister has been instrumental in the coordination of the CNMI Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program. She is the Pacific (Region IXa) Network Consultant and Quality Improvement Advisor under the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM).
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