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Description
Poster + 5-Minute Podium Sessions
A Genetic Cause of
Auditory Neuropathy
Several companies
are developing novel treatments for individuals with specific forms of hearing
loss, including auditory neuropathy caused by otoferlin protein deficiency. The
Amplify™ genetic testing program is one of the sponsored, no-charge genetic testing
for children with auditory neuropathy. Find out more about eligibility for this
program here: https://www.invitae.com/en/amplify.
During this
session, participants will:
- Understand several companies are developing novel treatments for individuals with auditory neuropathy caused by otoferlin (OTOF) protein deficiency.
- Explain that genetic testing must be completed to determine if OTOF protein deficiency is the cause of an auditory neuropathy diagnosis.
- Identify and access a sponsored, no-cost genetic testing service for children with auditory neuropathy.
Experienced listening and spoken language (LSL) practitioners routinely provide prognoses regarding LSL outcomes. This talk uses two cases of a rare genetic disorder to look at the management of the LSL journey when etiology makes for an unchartered LSL path.
During this session, participants will:
- Explain why ongoing diagnostic intervention is critical.
- Recognize when the typical intervention path won't work.
- Identify two objective that can help monitor LSL practice when the outcome is not as expected.
As multiplier agents, teachers need to build a base with speech-therapist students, as they will be the closest therapists who will mentor parents of children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe the support needs and practical activities for undergraduate students in speech therapy.
- List the benefits of student training for clinical practice.
- Define the main principles of hearing and language stimulation.
To reframe the criteria for pediatric cochlear implants (CIs) in Japan, we investigated monosyllabic recognition errors at the time of school entry in deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children with hearing aids (HAs) or CIs in early childhood.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe the commonalities and differences between children with HAs and children with CIs.
- Identify the similar articulation style.
- Identify formant transition as the causes of the recognition errors.
Parent participation is a vital factor that affects patient outcomes in listening and spoken language (LSL). Family involvement was described using the Family Participation Rating Scale and compared to patients’ progress over time. Data points between 2017 and 2021 will be presented and factors that affect parent participation will be reviewed.
During this session, participants will:
- Understand the importance of parent participation in language progress and overall outcomes of children enrolled in LSL services.
- Identify specific areas of family support that may lead to successful language outcomes in children with hearing loss.
- Learn measures of family participation that can be implemented in their clinic.
The success of a comprehensive, family-centered pediatric hearing program requires a multidisciplinary team. This session will provide details about how patient navigator(s) and parent panel members (families of children with hearing loss) can be included within multidisciplinary teams to help improve patient outcomes and patient satisfaction.
During this session, participants will:
- Understand the role of the patient navigator in a pediatric hearing program.
- Understand the importance of parent/patient input into program development.
- Identify keys to co-working with families and teams via parent panel and patient navigator.
This session provides an overview of Parental Assessment Scale of Children's Auditory/Oral Performance (PEACH), a tool validated in Spanish.
During this session, participants will:
- Increase knowledge of questionnaire adaptation.
- Learn about a transversal tool to evaluate children with hearing loss.
- Promote the importance of cultural adaptation of listening skills tests.
The Virtual “Hear” 2 Talk program is a family-centered service for children with unilateral or bilateral mild/moderate permanent hearing loss in the better ear. It promotes collaborative practice among all members of the child’s team, increases parental self-efficacy skills, and meets the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention 1-3-6 benchmarks.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe a family-centered, virtual EI program for children identified with unilateral or bilateral mild/moderate permanent hearing loss and whose parents have chosen spoken language outcomes.
- Summarize parents’ perspectives following participation in a virtual early intervention service.
- Examine the impact of an early intervention program on parental self-efficacy.
This presentation analyzes data collected on children ages birth to three with identified hearing loss receiving listening and spoken language intervention via telehealth. Families received coaching from a speech-language pathologist and/or developmental interventionist. Data was collected upon initial evaluation and tracked monthly over 1.5 years.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe data collection tools used to track progress.
- Identify key outcome differences between unilateral and bilateral users.
- Identify the relationship between wear-time and outcomes.
Effectively delivering services in remote areas remains a challenge for early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs. We examine a case study of innovative collaboration between two agencies to provide excellent EHDI services in the Yukon, a remote Canadian territory. This partnership is helping to ensure access to appropriate intervention even in extremely remote areas.
During this session, participants will:
- Understand the challenges to EHDI program service delivery in extremely remote areas.
- Identify the ways in which two early intervention programs established a partnership to provide specialized service to extremely remote DHH clients.
- Identify key elements that are enabling these two early intervention partners to foster their collaborations and diversify the practices they are using in their service delivery.
The education of speech-language pathologists (SLP) and other professionals working with families is crucial to reach spoken language through listening. This translational project aims to raise the bar on Romenian SLP education and parental participation with children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
During this session, participants will:
- Learn about listening for spoken language.
- How to do provide educational training.
- How to improve parental involvement.
Similar to the rest of the country, OPTION programs transitioned in the Spring 2020 to emergency tele-intervention services. The aim of this study was to evaluate the vocabulary growth of preschool-aged children who are DHH enrolled in OPTION programs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic given the transition to tele-intervention services.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe the vocabulary growth of preschool-aged children who are DHH who attended specialized programs throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Summarize how the results inform practices for practitioners working with children who are DHH who are utilizing listening and spoken language.
- Identify the profiles of children who maintained or showed growth in their vocabulary scores during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This case study is of a 40-year-old post lingual patient with severe-profound bilateral, sudden onset hearing loss. At 8 years of age the patient experienced sudden onset hearing loss without access to speech sounds until 32 years of age when the patient received a unilateral cochlear implant. Hearing access combined with CI and therapy resulted in improved auditory, cognitive, listening comprehension, speech and language skills.
During this session, participants will:
- Learn about the etiology and auditory development of the patient.
- Understand the process of auditory rehabilitation of the patient.
- See evidence that the patient's auditory rehabilitation has a favorable impact on their quality of life, family, social and work performance.
This presentation seeks to share with the audience the importance of implementing an informed evidence search that allows users to access opportunities that ensure the promotion, protection and maintenance of interventions that maximize well-being through action guides agreed upon by experts.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe principles of promotion, protection and maintenance of interventions.
- Identify the assessment of the relevance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures delivered by doctors, audiologists and rehabilitators to the proposals of a clinical guide.
- Discuss the level of agreement established by the specialists regarding the clinical usefulness of the proposed procedures in the pre, peri and post surgical stages.
The LSLS certification process, although rewarding, is an arduous learning process and can be facilitated if the mentor is fluent in the same language as the candidate and knowledgeable about his/her culture. This poster will describe the LSLS certification journey of professionals in a non-English-speaking community.
During this session, participants will:
- Describe the ongoing LSLS certification journey of professionals in a non-English-speaking community.
- Identify challenges faced by non-English speaking professionals going through the LSLS candidacy process.
- Report creative ways to overcome or minimize the challenges experienced.
