2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2013 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Consistent hearing aid use: Supporting parents through collaboration | Aurora C/D | 2
Consistent hearing aid use: Supporting parents through collaboration
Early hearing detection and intervention systems have provided a mechanism for parents to access services in a timely manner. As a result, the age of identification has decreased in the United States over the past decade, and infants are being fitted with hearing aids at younger ages. Parents have reported that consistent hearing aid use is challenging for infants and young children for a variety of reasons. When children are learning spoken language, the advantages of early identification are compromised when access to speech is inconsistent. Audiology and early intervention providers in Utah have teamed together to develop an extension of service delivery aimed at increasing daily hours of hearing aid use. The structured approach includes timely and purposeful sharing of key information to enhance the quality and effectiveness of support services. To assess the effectiveness of this approach average hours of hearing aid use is gathered from data logging in the hearing aid software. This presentation will describe the components of this model, outcomes of the collaboration, and the planned next steps to further enhance and expand collaboration efforts.
- Describe the benefits of collaboration
- List the type of information audiologists can share with interventionists to improve communication about hearing aid use
- List the type of information interventionists can share with audiologists to improve communication about hearing aid use
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Presenters/Authors
Karen Munoz
(POC,Primary Presenter,Author), Utah State University, karen.munoz@usu.edu;
Karen Muñoz is department head and professor of audiology at Utah State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education. She is also associate director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management. Her research focus is in the area of childhood hearing loss.
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• Receives Grants for Other activities from Utah State University.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Ali Devey
(Co-Presenter,Author), Utah State University, ali.devey@usu.edu;
Ali Devey received her Master’s degree in Deaf Education from the University of Arizona. She has been teaching for the past 9 years. Her interest in the field developed upon learning that her own daughter was born with a severe to profound hearing loss. She has taught at Desert Voices Oral Learning Center, ASDB,was the Program Coordinator at Sound Beginnings at Utah State University, and is currently the toddler classroom teacher and the Family Support Specialist at Sound Beginnings. She has a passion for serving families who have children with hearing loss and feels it is a way she can “give back” after her daughter received such phenomenal services on her path to listening and spoken language.
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Marge Edwards
(Co-Presenter,Author), Sound Beginnings of Utah State University, Marge.edwards@usu.edu;
Marge Edwards is a Speech Language Pathologist for the Sound Beginnings birth to three program and has been providing services via Teleintervention to families for three years. She received her Bachelor’s and Masters degrees at Utah State University in Speech Language Pathology. As part of her Master’s Degree, she received specialized training in facilitating auditory learning and spoken language. Her interest in speech language pathology, hearing loss and auditory learning began when she had two sons with hearing loss. After growing up in Colorado, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland and living in Idaho, she has moved to Logan with her husband and two sons to be a part of the Sound Beginnings program.
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Elizabeth Preston
(Co-Presenter,Author), Utah State University, elizabeth.preston@usu.edu;
Elizabeth Preston, AuD, is an assistant clinical professor and pediatric audiologist at Utah State University. She provides direct services (diagnostic assessment, amplification, cochlear implant mapping, and newborn hearing screening), provides graduate student supervision, and teaches the Electrophysiology course. She also serves the children enrolled in Sound Beginnings, an auditory oral early intervention program and preschool for children who have hearing loss at USU. In this role, she collaborates closely with the teacher's and the speech language pathologists to provide comprehensive and coordinated services.
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Kristina Blaiser
(Co-Presenter,Author), Idaho State University, Kristina.Blaiser@isu.edu;
Kristina Blaiser, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is
an Associate Professor of Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and directs the HATCH (Helping Adults Talk to Children) Lab at Idaho State University. Dr. Blaiser has extensive experience leading early childhood education programs and evaluating the outcomes of children who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. Her research interests include program evaluation and graduate training related to assessment and early intervention practices of children who are Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing. Dr. Blaiser’s recent work has focused on using telehealth to support families in early intervention. Kristina is the Coordinator for ASHA SIG 9: Hearing Loss and Hearing Disorders in Childhood.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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