2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
| The language we use to describe hearing
The language we use to describe hearing
While discussions surrounding the use of language and its impact have become very commonplace during the past few years for many fields, no professional Audiological organization has addressed the impact of deficit-framing terminology such as loss, abnormal, failed, or impairment. Additionally, many Audiologists hold outdated ideas about the Deaf community, and many do not offer full language choices to families who have children with profound hearing thresholds. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their document entitled “Guidance on Assessing Hearing in Infants, Children and Adolescents: Recommendations beyond Neonatal Screening”. This revised document challenges the use of terminology we hold commonplace and advocates for the use of non-offensive wording when working with Deaf and hard of hearing patients. It is noted that parental choice will be influenced by culture and personal experience and the professional needs to support every child’s communication, language development, and socioemotional needs. In this document, as a note, the American Cochlear Implant Alliance objects to the limited references provided on the use of Cochlear Implants. This poster is designed to chronicle our center’s decisions in how we present, document, and interact with our families as well as gather experience from other centers through the use of a professional survey to gather next (or even first) steps is identifying the language we should use when working with our families.
- Learn how one center is working towards non-biased wording for DHH children in written documentation, website, and brochures.
- Obtain awareness about difficulties embracing language changes within a medical model.
- Participate in an active dialogue in moving language to be non-biased.
Presentation:
3478265_16371AndreaKottlowski.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Andrea Kottlowski
(Primary Presenter,Co-Author), Rady Children's Hospital, akottlowski@rchsd.org;
Andi joined the diagnostic Audiology team at Rady Children’s Hospital in 2022. She received her Doctor of Audiology in 2019 from Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., and her Bachelor of Science in 2014 from Indiana University. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is licensed by the state of California for audiology and hearing aid dispensing.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Julie Purdy
(Co-Author), Rady Childrens, jpurdy@rchsd.org;
Julie Purdy has been a part of the Audiology team at Rady Children’s Hospital since 2007. She became the manager of audiology in 2014. She earned a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Utah in 1990, specializing in multicultural audiology and aging. She earned her masters of science in 1985 and her bachelors of arts in 1983, both in communication disorders from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Julie holds a certificate of clinical competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association is a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and is licensed by the state of California.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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Financial relationship with Rady Children's Hospital.
Nature: Employer.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Shani Goldgrub
(Co-Author), Rady Children's Hospital, sgoldgrub@rchsd.org;
Shani has been a part of the diagnostic Audiology team at Rady Children’s Hospital since July 2007. Shani earned her Doctor of Audiology from the University of Memphis in June 2007 and her Bachelor of Arts in communication disorders from Universidad de las Americas, Mexico City, in 1998. She provides support to our patients in both English and Spanish. Shani holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, is a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and is licensed by the state of California for audiology and hearing instrument dispensing.
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