2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2013 | 11:05 AM - 12:05 AM | Training Future Professionals: An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project | Solana D | 5
Training Future Professionals: An Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Project
Navigating a fractured healthcare system is challenging for families. Because hearing loss has low incidence, many PCPs may never have worked with children who are DHH and may not be aware of available resources and their impact. Similarly, because of discipline-specific curricula and limits in the availability of training opportunities on interdisciplinary teams, many speech and hearing providers may not have had experience in collaborating with the medical home for EHDI services
To address this information gap, an interdisciplinary project, capitalizing on the expertise of speech-language pathology and audiology at the University of Arizona and the family support services of Arizona Hands & Voices (AZHV), was developed.
Our goal: to increase communication and education for service providers and establish a network for easy transfer of information between all parties.
The project was implemented using a service-learning model for clinical education. In service-learning, a partnership is established between faculty and a non-profit organization to enrich the learning experience for students and strengthen communities. Graduate students in Audiology and Speech Pathology worked collaboratively with AZHV. Students had multiple opportunities for learning and reflection: Meeting AZHV to identify needs in the community, meeting with service-providers in their clinical environments, taking leadership roles in developing projects to improve communication among professionals, and connecting directly with families. This is what professionals do, but it is quite difficult to model this in a classroom.
One outcome of the project is an educational seminar for medical students. This training opportunity, which includes meeting audiologists, SLPs and parents would not otherwise exist. After implementing the training module, medical students demonstrated gains in their knowledge of how to interact with DHH patients and their families.
During this session, we will share the design and current outcomes of our project, including our successes, challenges, and methods for replicating the project.
- Identify strategies to improve communication among service providers
- Identify strategies to improve communication between service providers and families.
- List effective strategies to use to provide training to future service providers
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Presenters/Authors
Mary Alt
(Co-Presenter,Author), University of Arizona, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, malt@email.arizona.edu;
Mary Alt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is and Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. Her research interests center around developmental language disorders. Current NIH-funded work examines the relation between working memory and word learning in children with and without language disorders. Other interests include mechanisms of learning, particularly for bilingual children.
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Nicole Marrone
(Co-Presenter,Author), University of Arizona, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, nmarrone@email.arizona.edu;
Nicole Marrone, PhD, CCC-A is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona. Her area of research is rehabilitative audiology across the lifespan. Her current work addresses understanding the effects of hearing loss, improving aided listening in noise, auditory processing and working memory, and Living Well with Hearing Loss groups.
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Jeanne Hollabaugh
(POC,Co-Presenter,Author), Arizona Hands & Voices-Guide By Your Side, jeannehollabaugh@gmail.com;
Jeanne has three children two of whom are deaf: Eric, 17 and Michael, 22. She was the former Program Coordinator for Arizona Hands & Voices-Guide By Your Side.
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