2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/04/2021 | 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Tele-Practice in the Age of Covid-19; A Virtual Health Clinic for Children with Cochlear Implants | Topical Breakout
Tele-Practice in the Age of Covid-19; A Virtual Health Clinic for Children with Cochlear Implants
Our program has had tele-intervention, tele-audiology and virtual coaching in various aspects for the last several years. However, once things shut down significantly in March 2019 due to Covid 19, we had to vision new and innovative ways to best meet our mission to provide quality speech and audiology services, empower and support parents, and coach and train professionals. From that vision, we now have our Virtual Health Clinic for children with cochlear implants.
This presentation will share what that transformation looked like and our current day Virtual Health Clinic Care. Our Virtual Health Clinic Care includes audiology, speech and language services and coaching and mentoring professionals around the country. We will discuss benefits and barriers for providers, families and children who are deaf or hard of hearing. We will also invite attendees to brainstorm and share with the group what they have found successful in their own implementation of virtual health and virtual education.
While the coronavirus forced us into increased virtual care for children with cochlear implants, there is significant benefit to continue to innovate in order to best serve our most vulnerable populations. When we consider our patient population ages birth to three at our center, we know that over 50% of them have Medicaid and 49% of them live in rural areas of our state. Virtual health care gives us increased options to provide the care they need. This presentation will allow individuals to vision how virtual care can be implemented in their own programs.
- participants will be able to summarize the benefits and barriers to virtual health for children with cochlear implants
- participants will be able to write how they might adapt their practice to include some aspect of virtual care not currently included
- participants will be able to vision the changes and future impact that virtual health will have on hearing health for children who are deaf or hard of hearing
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Presenters/Authors
Hannah Eskridge
(), University of North Carolina, hannah.eskridge@unchealth.unc.edu;
Hannah Eskridge, MSP, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology/ Head and Neck Surgery at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Clinical Director of the Children’s Cochlear Implant Center at UNC. She has been working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families for over 20 years. Her primary interests are increasing access to hearing healthcare for children and the use of strengths based coaching with both professionals and parents in the areas of listening and spoken language development.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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