WA State EHDDI Learning Community Winter Seminar 2024

The Winter 2024 Webinar on Friday, March 1, 2024,  featured 2 90-minute presentations on topics relevant to the WA EHDDI community:

Title: Navigating Ethical Challenges in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

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Description:

Providing care for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families is rewarding, but unique ethical challenges can arise.  The goal of this presentation is to provide EHDI professionals with a framework for evaluating and resolving ethical quandaries that may occur in the EHDI process. Case examples will be used to illustrate how to resolve ethical challenges in person-centered care.

Presenter:  Ryan McCreery

Ryan McCreery, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Research at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. He leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists who conduct research to improve the health and well-being of children and adults. Ryan’s own research program examines the effects of hearing loss on speech recognition, language, and cognitive function in children.

Learning objectives: As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify clinical situations that may present ethical challenges in early hearing detection and intervention.
  • Apply a patient- and family-centered approach to resolving ethical dilemmas collaboratively.
  • Develop evidence-based processes for supporting ethical decision making by families and their children who are deaf/hard of hearing.

 

Title: Hearing Assessment and Intervention for Infants and Children who have Developmental Disabilities 

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Description:

Infants and children who have developmental disabilities are at risk for late or missed identification of reduced hearing. This problem exists even though many developmental disabilities are known to have a higher risk of reduced hearing than seen for the general population. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss gaps in hearing assessment practices for infants and children who have developmental disabilities. This presentation will emphasize developmentally-informed strategies that can be used during a hearing evaluation. This talk will primarily focus on data from children who have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, or intellectual disabilities.

Presenter: Angela Bonino

Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed her clinical training in audiology at Vanderbilt University, and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was previously on faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Bonino’s research expertise is in human auditory development with behavioral methods. Current research is focused on advancing hearing health care for children with developmental disabilities by identifying gaps in clinical care and improving behavioral hearing assessment procedures. This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.

Learning objectives: As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Be familiar with the risk of reduced hearing seen for children who have autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and intellectual disability.
  • Be able to describe disparities experienced by infants and children who have developmental disabilities in their access to gold-standard hearing assessment (audiogram, ABR).
  • Be able to summarize developmentally-informed strategies that can be implemented into clinical practice when working with children who have developmental disabilities.

Disclosure: Angela Bonino and Ryan McCreery have no financial on non-financial conflicts of interest in relation to this presentation. The WSELC webinar is funded by the Washington State Department of Health EHDDI program.

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