Monday, May 10, 2010

Website Recommendation: Ida Institute

The Ida Institute is a non-profit educational organization based in Denmark that was founded with a grant from the Oticon Foundation. Their mission is unique in that they strive to provide a "holistic understanding of the complex journey of hearing loss" to hearing impaired individuals and hearing care professionals.

The organization provides some solid insight for hearing care professionals/audiologists about considering the person as a whole instead of simply attempting to treat the hearing impairment alone. The "Tool Room" on their website offers professionals some practical learning and teaching techniques, which are time friendly but involve a holistic approach. Note: a user account is necessary to access the tools, but it's free and takes a minute. It's worth it since they provide multiple resources for each type of tool including videos of mock scenarios between clinician and patient and excellent examples.

You can also view full lecture presentations given by well-known members in the audiology field. The presentations are available for download. There is a forum as well for member discussions.

Definitely a site I would recommend browsing through!



The Ida Institute Staff: Institute Director, Lise Lotte Bundesen heads her staff members, who include: Coordinator Anne Hedvig Westenholz, Communication Specialist Sharmi Albrechtsen, Audiologist Therese Velde, Audiologist Melanie Gregory, Learning Specialist Dorthe Hein and noted Anthropologists Kirsten Lauritsen and Hans Henrik Philipsen.

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Excellent resource! Thanks for sharing it! Just bookmarked it.

-Stephanie

Jonah said...

For my part every person must go through this.
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