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Giving Children a Voice in Their Hearing Care Appointments: Using Ida Institute’s My Hearing Explained for Children in Your Daily Practice

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1.  Child-Centered Care is an evolution in pediatric care because: The model recognizes a child’s “person-ness” and “family-ness” The model recognizes a child’s ability to correctly inform the healthcare professional, improving treatment outcomes The model recognizes a child’s right to self-determination The model significantly decreases the time needed for consultation and therapy, reducing the demands on the pediatric healthcare provider

2.  How can clinicians support a gradual increase in independence amongst young people with hearing loss? By engaging the young person in discussions about hearing challenges and possible solutions By providing supervision whilst allowing the young person to test their own hearing with an audiometer By actively removing parental involvement from consultations By visiting the young person’s school and providing a presentation about hearing loss to the young person’s classmates

3.  Child-Centered Care addresses some of the subtle flaws in Family- and Person-Centered Care models. How do the principles of CCC model frame the child? Children are understood as autonomous patients with the right to make decisions. Children are understood as persons who can report on their lived lives and how they experience our care. Children are understood as lacking life experience and cognitive development that would enable them to actively participate in their care. Children are understood as autonomous patients with limited judicial rights

4.  What is self-determination? Self-determination is a set of behaviors, feelings, experiences, and supports that children and young people need in order to learn how to make choices, take responsibility, manage their lives Self-determination is a social construct indicative to Western belief systems and supports that children and young people need in order to learn how to make choices, take responsibility, manage their lives. Self-determination is a phase in the psychological development of a child and usually occurs between the ages of 15 and 18, whereby the individual begins to transition into the self-realization phase. Self-determination is a set of skills, knowledge, attitudes, drive, and supports that children and young people need in order to learn how to make choices, take responsibility, and manage their lives.

5.  My Hearing Explained for Children can be: Used as a conversation guide to relate hearing test results in easy-to-understand language for children and families and personalize hearing care recommendations based on their needs A tool that replaces the need for an audiogram A way to document hearing loss for medical reports Used occasionally when a clinician has time in their schedule