2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/15/2022 | 10:00 AM - 10:25 AM | A New Resource for Describing and Understanding Hearing Loss | Room 11
A New Resource for Describing and Understanding Hearing Loss
For professionals, the audiogram represents a graphic description of a child's hearing loss, and is used to summarize the results of audiometric testing that determines the softest level of sounds, or thresholds, that a child is able to hear. For parents, the audiogram often comes across as a complex graph that is difficult to understand. However, understanding a child's hearing loss is essential if professionals are to partner with parents on the child's hearing loss journey. During this session, we will describe and review a free resource recently developed for families and professionals titled the "Familiar Sounds Audiogram". This document includes a simple description of the audiogram and its components. It includes a colorful audiogram on which professionals can plot a child's aided or unaided hearing thresholds in order to better describe hearing test results to families. The audiogram is part of a downloadable eBook that contains numerous topics, including What is an Audiogram, How to Read Your Child's Audiogram, Descriptions of Severity of Hearing Loss, Where do Speech Sounds Fall on the Audiogram, Melody for Meaning, Consonants for Clarity, Melody-Speech Clarity Overlap, the Speech String Bean, Singing and Music, and How to Check your Child's Hearing at Home. We will review development of this important resource and describe how it can be used by both professionals and parents as they partner together to understand and optimally treat a child's hearing loss.
- Describe a child's hearing loss in a simple and easy to understand manner to families
- Use the Familiar Sounds Audiogram to represent sounds a child is hearing or missing when using hearing technology
- Describe how the speech banana and string bean can be used to determine if a child has adequate access to speech information
Presentation:
3353554_15038TerryZwolan.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Terry Zwolan
(), Hearing First, tzwolan@hearingfirst.org;
Terry Zwolan is Director of Audiology at Hearing First. Prior to her role at Hearing First, she was a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and Director of the Cochlear Implant Program at Michigan Medicine.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment from Hearing First.
• Receives Honoraria excluding diversified mutual funds for Teaching and speaking from Institute for Cochlear Implant Training.
• Receives Other financial benefit for Teaching and speaking from Wayne State University.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Professional (Unpaid advisory board member)
relationship for Board membership.
• Has a Professional (Unpaid advisory board member)
relationship for Board membership.
Teresa Caraway
(), Hearing First, tcaraway@hearingfirst.org;
Dr. Teresa Caraway, CEO Hearing First, an educational endeavor of the Oberkotter Foundation, is leading the effort to improve outcomes for children and their families through family and professional support and learning. She is the Founder and President of Learning Innovation Associates, and the Founder of Hearts for Hearing. A Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist, Dr. Caraway served as the founding President of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language and as a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. She has previously served as a Director of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, and Auditory-Verbal International. She has been recognized by her peers for outstanding clinical skills. A former Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Dr. Caraway is an international consultant and skillful workshop presenter on teaching spoken language through listening.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment from Hearing First.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Professional (Certified LSLS Cert. AVT ) (Founding President )
relationship for Other volunteer activities.
• Has a Professional (Founding Board Member; Member)
relationship for Other volunteer activities.
• Has a Professional (Certified SLP; Member)
relationship for Other volunteer activities.