Topic Area 4 - Effect of HL on Social, Physical & Emotional Well-Being Flashcards
Examples of Hearing Assistive Technology Systems (HATS) that add to the physical safety and independence of people with hearing loss?
Fire alarm system with flashing lights and bed shakers (go on the bed frame); can also get a hearing dog
FM systems/infrared systems/induction loops
Doorbell coupled with a lamp flash
Baby cry alert system
Telephone ring signaler coupled with lamp flash
Telephone:
Video calling so they can engage in speechreading or signing
Captioned telephones
Telecoil/bluetooth
Texting
Relay systems: trained operator serves as intermediary
IPhone apps that use a directional mic and earbuds for speaking in noisy environments like coffee shops
Earplugs
9 domains of LSL, many of which either emphasize directly or allude to the importance of family-centered care:
Hearing and Hearing Technology
Audiology Functioning
Spoken Language Communication
Child Development**
Parent Guidance, Education and Support**
Strategies for Listening and Spoken Language Development**
History, philosophy & professional issues
Education**
Emergent Literacy**
We must be cognizant that the family is the primary influence on the child, and there is no more powerful intervention tool; we as SLPs need to acknowledge the parents as experts on their child. There are many factors that play into best spoken language outcomes, and we as professionals have influence over very few of them as compared to the parents/ families of children focusing on LSL.
Informational counselling
Provides relevant information about the nature of the HL and effective steps to manage the loss
· Can inspire patient and family to play an active role in the aural rehab plan and to prevent long-term consequences
· Strategies to help clients understand and remember info
o advice should be given as concrete instruction
o use easy-to-understand language
o present most important info first (primacy effect)
o stress importance of info you want the patient to remember and repeat important info
o use method of explicit categorizations
o don’t present too much info
o specifically address the patient’s reason for seeking a hearing eval or other services
o supplement verbal info w/ graphical materials that the patient can take home
Personal adjustment counselling
Clinician focuses on the permanence of the HL and on psychological, social, and emotional acceptance
o acceptance of HL allows patients to accept the realities of their disability and to adjust their values and priorities while still continuing to lead fulfilled and productive lives
Occurs less often than informational counselling
How stage models of grieving differ from circular-pathways models of grieving
Stage models: traditional models of grieving posit that parents and family members pass through discrete stages after learning of their child’s HL
Circular pathway models of grieving: recognize that grieving may not play out linearly; rather, grieving process = circular experience where stages may be revisited -Grieving process is ongoing in this model
Specific aspects of the Martin-Elder model of grieving:
Why is the model in the form of a figure 8 (or the infinity symbol)?
the grief process is a continual process; bidirectional arrows between these different stages indicate that movement between stages as well as between “internal” or “external” processing may be a mutable, continuous process.
Dr. Ritter’s illustration show little figures of people around the model, but your text has stars in those places. Despite the illustration, what do the stars or figures stand for?
the stars represent people from the parents’ past and present milieu, people who exert societal and professional influences about the “right way” to feel or behave
