18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
3/10/2015 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Grief to Engagement! Novel Ways to Counsel and Assist Parents When a Hearing Loss is Diagnosed and to Encourage Buy-in and Engagement With Early Intervention Services. | French | 1
Grief to Engagement! Novel Ways to Counsel and Assist Parents When a Hearing Loss is Diagnosed and to Encourage Buy-in and Engagement With Early Intervention Services.
As a parent of three children, two with a syndrome that caused their hearing loss, nothing can prepare one for that inevitable and inexorable time when an audiologist delivers the fateful and unexpected news of a hearing loss diagnosis. This I know intimately from experience. Typically, parents have little to no prior knowledge of children with hearing loss and the myriad of services that can benefit them. The majority of parents express how much better they felt when they were finally connected with other parents of children with hearing loss. However, this vital introduction, meeting and interaction between parents and children may be delayed or never come to fruition. This can be especially true in rural areas. Fortunately, much can be done to assuage, cushion and soften the landing no matter where one resides or “how hard the fall”. While nothing can and should completely erase the natural grieving process, getting families to a timelier and healthier starting point in their journey and connected with early intervention services is paramount. Novel and unique ideas to bridge this gap will be presented, discussed, shown and demonstrated in an interactive manner with the audience.
- explain how a "wall of fame" in an audiological diagnostics room will assist parents in the grieving process.
- plan and create their own various marketing and promotional tools using DVD's, social media and other publications in their own practices, services and programs.
- identify and work with parents in their practice or through their state Hands and Voices chapter in order to design marketing and promotional materials for parents.
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Presenters/Authors
Andrea Amestoy
(Primary Presenter,POC), Idaho Hands and Voices, andrea_corn@yahoo.com;
Andrea Amestoy, R.N., has been a pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit nurse and teaches classes at St. Luke’s.
She has worked for the past 12 years at Idaho Sound Beginnings as a parent outreach consultant in which she markets and promotes Idaho Sound Beginnings, gives presentations and contacts parents for follow up.
In addtion, Andrea works for Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind with children 0-3 who are blind or visually impaired. She earned her Health Science and Nursing Degrees from Boise State University and is a certified teacher of the blind and visually impaired with a Master's in Special Education from Texas Tech University. She recently completed her orientation and mobility certificate from Texas Tech University in August of 2019.
She is the mother of three kids, two of whom have Usher's Syndrome.
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