2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/05/2012 | 3:20 PM - 3:50 PM | Sound Experience: Ten Years of Mentoring Parents, Children, and Audiologists | Jeffersonian/Knickerbocker | 6
Sound Experience: Ten Years of Mentoring Parents, Children, and Audiologists
Sound Experience: Ten Years of Mentoring Parents, Children, and Audiologists
Authors: Joy Ringger, Au.D, Sally Wolford, MBA, Tanya Goralczyk, M.S.
Affiliations: 1) Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Presenters: Joy Ringger, Au.D, Sally Wolford, MBA, Tanya Goralczyk, M.S.
Early detection of hearing loss and the rapid advancement of hearing aid technology has significantly changed the way pediatric audiologists manage children with hearing loss. We are diagnosing hearing loss and fitting hearing aids on children at an increasingly younger age. Since an audiologist’s goal is to provide the hearing impaired child with access to sound as early as possible, the focus can often be on test results and equipment, and not on how overwhelmed and isolated parents can feel. Parent groups provide peer support, a wealth of information on hearing loss, and address the day-to-day issues that arise when raising a child who is hearing impaired. Sound Experience is a support group that has been meeting for 10 years. Our mission is to provide a place for parents to network and share similar experiences and to give hearing impaired children and their siblings an opportunity to meet other children with hearing loss. Founded by two audiologists and a hearing impaired parent who has children with hearing loss, Sound Experience also provides community resources, education, and a social experience for families and their hearing impaired children. In this presentation, we will discuss how our support group began; the key components that have made it successful as well as the difficulties we encountered. Questions addressed will include: 1) How do you start a parent support group? 2) What is the goal of the group? 3) What resources are needed? 4) Who should be leading the group?
- Have the tools to start a support group for parents and their hearing impaired children.
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Joy Ringger
(), Children's Memorial Hospital, jringger@childrensmemorial.org;
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Tanya Goralczyk
(Co-Presenter,Author), Children's Memorial Hospital, tgoralczyk@childrensmemorial.org;
Tanya has worked as a Pediatric Audiologist for 19 years and is one of the audiologists that created Sound Experience at Children's Memorial Hospital.
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Sally Wolford
(Co-Presenter), Sound Experience, Children's Memorial Hospital, Westchester, Illinois, bonthront@aol.com;
Sally is a successful hearing impaired adult whose siblings are both hearing impaired and whose three out of four children are hearing impaired. Sally has first hand experience with the need for early identification and addressing hearing loss. As a "retired" engineer, she works closely with the audiologists Joy and Tanya to develop the concept of Sound Experience (a support and educational group for hearing impaired children, and their families supported by Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago), make modifications if needed, plan speakers, and lead Sound Experience. Her greatest success has been with the adaptation and achievements of all of her children, hearing loss not withstanding.
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