2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference

March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH

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3/18/2018 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | Technology 101: A Hands-on Workshop for Supporting Optimal Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss | Mineral D/E

Technology 101: A Hands-on Workshop for Supporting Optimal Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss

The Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss (OCHL) study is a multi-disciplinary project designed to examine factors that contribute to longitudinal outcomes of children with mild to severe hearing loss. Results from the OCHL study demonstrate that cumulative auditory-linguistic experience is integral to developing spoken language for children with hearing loss. This interactive session is a hands-on workshop intended to increase comfort with technologies that promote optimal language development for children who use hearing aids. The first part of this session will include results from the OCHL study that show differing developmental trends in language for children who are hard of hearing. Some children who are hard of hearing are at risk for delayed language due to inconsistent hearing aid use, underamplification resulting from poorly fit hearing aids, and lower quality linguistic input, which may be impacted by service provision. We will share information regarding factors related to increasing provider confidence with skills relevant to promoting optimal auditory-linguistic access for children with hearing loss. The second part of this session will involve a hands-on workshop to increase comfort with skills relevant to working with children with hearing loss. Attendees will rotate through workshop stations that focus on troubleshooting hearing aids and remote-microphone hearing assistive technology, monitoring hearing aid use, verifying audibility of hearing aids, conducting speech perception tests with young children, and using Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) technology. The main objective of the session is to provide parents and service providers, particularly speech-language pathologists and early interventionists, more hands-on exposure to different technologies, including real ear hearing aid verification measures, data logging, and LENA devices. • 5 minutes–Introductions and Disclosures • 15 minutes–Overview and Background of cumulative auditory experience hypothesis, provider comfort, and issues related to troubleshooting equipment • 70 minutes–Hands-on stations (7/8 stations, 10 minutes per station)

Participants will identify malleable factors that support language acquisition in children with hearing loss
Participants will identify tools for optimizing hearing aid fittings for children.
Participants will compare different techniques for monitoring and promoting hearing aid use.

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Elizabeth Walker (), University of Iowa, Elizabeth-walker@uiowa.edu;
Elizabeth Walker, PhD, CCC-A/SLP is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on pediatric aural habilitation, specifically examining malleable factors that relate to individual differences in speech perception and language outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. For the past few years, she has been an investigator on several NIH-funded research grants, including the University of Iowa Cochlear Implant project, Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss study, and Complex Listening in School Age Children who are Hard of Hearing.