2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
| Implementing Visual Supports to Aid in the Audiologic Evaluation of Children with Developmental Disabilities
Implementing Visual Supports to Aid in the Audiologic Evaluation of Children with Developmental Disabilities
Traditional audiological assessment, which is based on assumptions of typical development, can be challenging with children with developmental delays, resulting in inability to obtain accurate or complete audiological testing and potentially delaying intervention. Visual supports help prepare children by demonstrating what to expect and allow for repeated exposure to new environments and activities, which eases anxiety and stress for a child with developmental delays.
McTee and colleagues (2019) created visual models and supports to facilitate audiology appointments for obtaining behavioral measures for children with developmental disabilities. The supports included images and videos of audiology testing to alleviate caregiver and patient stress. The published work has yet to collect data on the effectiveness of these tools in clinical practice. This study’s aim is to evaluate the effectiveness and perceived satisfaction with use of these visual supports to facilitate obtaining a complete hearing test for children ages 30 months to 7 years with developmental delays.
Evaluation of parent satisfaction and the effectiveness of use of visual supports is evaluated via qualitative data collection of parental report as well as quantitate data of whether the patient could complete the audiometric testing with visual supports. If numbers allow, we will compare to a control group of children who receive treatment as usual (i.e., no visual supports). We hypothesize that use of visual supports prior to audiology appointments will reduce parental stress and assist in obtaining additional audiometric information as compared to the use of no visual supports.
- Participants will understand why visual supports are helpful for children with developmental disabilities
- Participants will learn what visual supports can be used to support audiologic testing
- Participants will evaluate whether visual supports are useful in improving audiologic assessment in children with developmental disabilities
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Presenters/Authors
Deborah Mood
(Co-Author), Colorado Children's Hospital, DEBORAH.MOOD@childrenscolorado.org;
Deborah Mood, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist with Developmental Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in school psychology from University of Northern Colorado and a specialist degree in school psychology from Gallaudet University. Dr. Mood completed a LEND psychology postdoctoral fellowship at JFK Partners, University of Colorado School of Medicine, after completing an APA accredited psychology internship at the University of Minnesota. She specializes in working with children who are deaf and hard of hearing as well as children with a variety of developmental disabilities including autism spectrum disorder.
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• Receives Grants for Independent contractor from MCH.
• Receives Grants for Independent contractor from NIH/NIDCD.
• Receives Honoraria excluding diversified mutual funds,Speaker for Other activities from Phonak.
• Receives Salary for Employment from University of Colorado Anschutz.
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Financial relationship with University of Colorado- Denver- employment
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Phonak- past honoraria.
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Phonak- past honoraria.
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Riley Corcoran
(Primary Presenter), JFK Partners; University of Colorado, rfcorcoran23@gmail.com;
Riley Corcoran(she/her) is a current Audiology Doctoral Extern at the Children's Hospital of Colorado and is completing her AuD at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She is participating in a fellowship rotation through the Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program through the University of Colorado. Riley has a background in education and working with children with neurodevelopmental differences. Her passion includes multidisciplinary work and developmentally appropriate diagnostic procedures in audiology appointments.
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Andrea Gatlin
(Co-Author), Children's Hospital Colorado , andrea.gatlin@childrenscolorado.org;
Andrea Gatlin is a clinical audiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado in Colorado Springs. Her clinical interests include working with Deaf/Hard of Hearing Plus children and their families, global health, and vestibular audiology
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Alyssa Schoenborn
(Co-Author), alyssa.schoenborn@childrenscolorado.org;
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Emily E. Nightengale
(Co-Author), Children's Hospital Colorado, Emily.Nightengale@childrenscolorado.org;
Emily Elizabeth Nightengale joined the Bill Daniels Center for Children’s Hearing at Children’s Hospital Colorado as an Audiologist in July 2010. She has 14 years of experience as an audiologist specializing in pediatric diagnostic evaluations and management, and she obtained her Pediatric Audiology Specialty Certification in 2012. Emily participates as an audiology team member on the Vestibular Team and as audiology lead for the Help for Hearing Device Users Clinic at Children’s Hospital Colorado. She has been actively working on quality improvement projects, publishing research, and participating in audiology student supervision and mentoring; she obtained the Certificate Holder – Audiology Preceptor certification in 2017. Most recently, Emily enrolled and graduated from the Caritas Coach Education Program, which focuses on human caring and transformation of self and systems to achieve optimal outcomes for her patients. Emily received her Doctor of Audiology degree from Rush University in Chicago, Illinois in June 2008
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