SLP in Audiology Services Flashcards
interprofessional collaboration
collective action toward a common goal
benefits of interprofessional collaboration
- comprehensive service provision
- better outcomes for the patient
- higher satisfaction
- time
- cost efficiency
what other professions might SLPs collaborate with?
- OT
- PT
- families
- physicians
- teachers
- behavioral specialists
- audiologist
- neurologist
ASHA’s SLP scope of practice for hearing
- hearing screenings
- interpret audiometric data
ASHA’s 8 service delivery domains
- collaboration
- counseling
- prevention and wellness
- screening
- assessment
- treatment
- modalities, technology, and instrumentation
- population and systems
- collaboration
- team approach to patient care
- patient may have hearing loss
- counseling
- emotional support
- discussing hearing loss remediation and hearing assistance technology
- education/programmatic decision making
- prevention and wellness
- prevention of hearing loss
- promotion of services available (both to the person with hearing loss and community)
- educating the public (at schools, workplace, and community)
- screening
- planning and conducting hearing screening programs (dependent upon where you are working)
- selecting appropriate screening instruments
- developing screening procedures
- analyzing results and making referrals
- assessment
- identifying risk factors
- interpreting audiometric results
- treatment
collaboration with audiologist on best practice
- modalities, technology, and instrumentation
- familiarity of hearing screening instruments, hearing aids, ALDs
- maintenance of hearing aids, ALDs, auditory training systems
- population and systems
- intervention strategies and therapeutic goals align with the whole patient
- type of support needed in the classroom
- early intervention for communication choices (do not state your opinion, tell them pros and cons)
audiologists scope of practice, synopsis
- prevention
- identification
- assessment
- rehabilitation
audiologist: prevention
- noise measurements
- promotion of hearing wellness
audiologist: identification
- newborn hearing screenings
- screening for speech, language, and cognitive disorders
- those at risk for hearing loss
- collaborate with SLPs
audiologist: assessment
- behavioral, electroacoustical, electrophysiological
- auditory and balance
- measurement of evoked auditory potentials, electromyography
- neurophysiological intraoperative monitoring
- auditory processing disorders
- otoscopy and cerumen management
audiologists: rehabilitation
- hearing assistive technology
- cochlear implant candidates
- consultation and provision of vestibular and balance rehab
- management of tinnitus
- participant in IEPs
audiometric equipment, the SLP role
must follow OSHA regulations
maintenance of equipment might not be up to the SLP…but
be aware of the maintenance requirements:
- annual calibration
- daily listening checks
deaf
individuals whose hearing loss is so severe they cannot use their sense of audition as a primary means to communicate
Deaf
using a capital ‘D’ refers to adults and children who share the use of ASL and Deaf culture (common values, traditions, etc.)
hard of hearing
person with a hearing loss who can derive benefit from hearing aids and uses aural/oral speech for communication
best practice
- clinical process that is judged to be scientifically sound and consistently yields results of better quality than other procedures
- ever-changing
