Living LifeAloud!
By Created, produced and edited by Jason Wigand. Music by Lauren Zettler
Living LifeAloud!Apr 28, 2021
Mariann Carter - Carter Hears! and The Quill Model of learning
#013. How a normal hearing child of deaf adults serves children with hearing loss and develops a better model for their communication and educational needs!
In addition to serving as owner and lead consultant for Carter Hears! in Fort Mill, South Carolina, an educational consulting group that focuses on children with hearing loss by supporting schools, professionals, and families with customized services. Mariann Carter has developed an unique model for optimizing education for children with hearing loss. The Quill Model.
The Quill Model aims to demonstrate that services like these depicted in the photo, with three communication options and access to grade-level content, are just the beginning of a purposeful and outcomes-based relationship with the community. Knowing the challenges makes it almost impossible for most districts to accomplish a true language intensive environment for students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. These challenges exist for many reasons – resources, a critical mass of students, and available teachers with background and training, as well as trained individuals and adult role models who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing to model naturally communication in the environment. Therefore, to provide the perfect foundation of language intensity, academic content, technology, social and executive functioning skills, The Quill Model strives to be a bridge that addresses LEAD-K in action.
Mariann Carter, a child of deaf adults, has taken the work of two generations and brought it forth to be used in schools for the deaf, school districts, charter options and more. Visit www.quillmodel.com today to learn more about how they can help to bring about a more successful and well-rounded language-intensive education for students with hearing loss.
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Mariann Carter - A Child of Deaf Adults
#012. A normal hearing woman raised by deaf parents learns how to communicate more effectively and be more appreciative of different abilities. A discussion with Mariann Carter.
Professionally, Mariann C. Carter, M.Ed., M.S., EIPA 3.9, NBCT-Retired, is the owner and lead consultant for Carter Hears! in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Carter Hears! is "an educational consulting group that focuses on children with hearing loss by supporting schools, professionals, and families with customized services." It's the agency's mission, "that all children, specifically children with hearing loss, reach their potential in academic, social, emotional, functional, and spiritual avenues through conducive learning environments." Mariann has more than 20 years of teaching experience at schools for the deaf, public schools, college-level training programs, and educational leadership. If your child or someone you know needs help, then get in touch with Carters Hears! To learn more about Carter Hears! visit www.carterhears.com or www.facebook.com/carterhears
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Anna Hartge - The key is self-advocacy!
#011. How to persevere through self-advocacy! A discussion with Anna Hartge.
Anna is a young professional living in Washington, DC, with roots in Ohio and Michigan. She considers herself a lifelong educator with experience teaching 7th grade social studies, serving within the federal government on education topics and most recently worked with college students in career services. Anna is a proud user of hearing aids and is a big believer in living a life without limits.
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Megan Thomas, AuD - An audiologist with hearing loss serves children in the schools!
#010. An audiologist with her own hearing loss now serves children with hearing loss in the schools! A discussion with Megan Thomas, AuD.
Megan Thomas, AuD is currently an educational audiologist in the Richland County school district in Columbia, SC where she serves children with hearing loss and makes sure they have the services and accessibility they need in school. She was previously with Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, NE as a researcher focusing on audiological and vestibular functioning. At Boys Town Hearing and Balance Center, clinicians and researchers integrate current audiology research findings with world-renowned expertise to provide patients with the most comprehensive hearing healthcare for both children and adults.
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Katherine Bouton - Shouting Won't Help!
#009. Please understand this…shouting won’t help me hear you better! A discussion with Katherine Bouton.
Katherine is an advocate and educator for the deaf and hard of hearing. Her recent book is “Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss” (October 2018).
She is also the author of “Shouting Won’t Help,”(2013), a memoir of losing her hearing in midlife and how it affected her, and of “Living Better with Hearing Loss” (2015). Katherine’s books are available at Amazon.com or at your favorite independent bookstore.
Her 40-year career in journalism began at The New Yorker and concluded with 22 years at The New York Times. She traveled the world as a free-lance magazine writer as well.
Katherine is a frequent speaker on hearing loss issues and speaks to both professional and hearing loss groups. She can be reached at katherinebouton@gmail.com.
She is Vice President of the New York City Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America and was until recently a member of the National Board of Trustees of HLAA.
Author: Amazon.com
Blog: Smart Hearing
Hearing Loss Association of America, NYC Chapter
Terminalia, poems by Daniel Menaker, order here.
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Brittany Lash, PhD - Part 2, Her research
#008. How her research interests were shaped by her personal journey with hearing loss. Another conversation with Brittany Lash, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton in the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Communication.
See show notes for Episode #007 for her full bio.
https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/communication/lash-brittany.php
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Brittany Lash, PhD - Part 1, Her story
#007. How her personal journey with hearing loss helped shape a career in research. A conversation with Brittany Lash, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton in the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Communication.
Dr. Brittany Lash’s primary research interests focus on the intersections between health and interpersonal communication. A particular passion for disability studies and the communication issues surrounding individuals with disabilities has driven much of her research as she strives to give a voice to individuals within this population. Dr. Lash’s most recent work in this field has focused on issues of stigma and disclosure for individuals with hearing loss. Additional research interests include the ways in which we communicate about female body image, especially that of female athletes. She has published in several journals, including Health Communication and Communication Quarterly, and has contributed entries to the Encyclopedia of Health Communication.
Degrees
Ph.D., Communication, University of Kentucky
M.A., Communication, University of Kentucky
B.S., Organizational Communication, Ohio University
Research Interests
Health Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Individuals with Disabilities
Stigma
Female Athletes and Body Image
https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/communication/lash-brittany.php
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My story - Part 1
#002. This is the story of my journey with hearing loss. This episode begins from the point I was identified, through meeting the love of my life, beginning a family, hearing aids and implantation, and finally the decision to leave a great career to pursue a newfound passion.
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David Owen - Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World
#003. It is truly a deafening world. A discussion with David Owen, author of Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World. David Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly and, prior to that, a senior writer at Harper’s. He is also a contributing editor at both Golf Digest and Popular Mechanics, and is one of The Fifty Funniest American Writers. He is the author of more than a dozen books. All his books can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/David-Owen/e/B001K8AJCK?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1619378002&sr=8-1
His complete bio can be found at https://davidowen.typepad.com/david_owen/biography.html
David Owen's golf-only website is at http://www.myusualgame.com/
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Barbara Kelley, Executive Director of HLAA - Working for you!
#006. A resource you need! A discussion with Barbara Kelley, Executive Director of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
Here’s a link to her bio. https://www.hearingloss.org/about-hlaa/our-team/staff/
They did a survey on the impact of people with hearing loss and the pandemic. https://www.hearingloss.org/hearing-loss-pandemic-survey/. Here’s a brief video on it.
She is also on the steering group for the newly-formed Cochlear Implant International Community of Action – a global effort to raise awareness and advocacy about cochlear implants.
HLAA resources for COVID and individuals with hearing loss: https://www.hearingloss.org/coronavirus-covid-19-resources/
They also have great webinars which are free and open to the public: https://www.hearingloss.org/programs-events/webinars/schedule-recordings/
Virtual convention in June: https://www.hearingloss.org/programs-events/convention/
HLAA is convening a meeting for the FDA on sensorineural hearing loss. It is open and free to the public; the audience is for FDA scientists to understand the impact of hearing loss on people. We will have people with hearing loss talking about that.
About the PFDD meetings
Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) meetings were started by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to find a better way to hear directly from patients, their caregivers, and families.
Over several years, the FDA conducted more than 25 PFDD meetings for a variety of diseases, to learn how the process could work (https://www.fda.gov/industry/prescription-drug-user-fee-amendments/externally-led-patient-focused-drug-development-meetings). These meetings are planned by patient advocacy organizations and are called Externally-Led Patient-Focused Drug Development meetings. To date, there have been over 40 EL-PFDD meetings. Several important outcomes of the meetings include having a recording, a transcript, and a Voice of the Patient report (https://ataxia.org/ataxiapfdd/) . The Voice of the Patient report summarizes the meeting and gives anyone interested an overview. These reports are posted in the public domain and on FDA and patient org websites (https://pancreasfoundation.org/pfdd2020/).
Here is the registration link for the meeting on Sensorineural Hearing loss on May 25.
https://pfdd-hlaa-meeting-registration.gr8.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=getresponse&utm_content=HLAA+is+Hosting+a+Webinar+on+April+8+and+Convening+a+Meeting+on+May+25&utm_campaign=
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Juliette Sterkens, AuD - Get in the Loop!
#004. How to hear better EVERYWHERE! A discussion with Juliette Sterkens, AuD.
Born in the Netherlands, audiologist Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens has over 40 years of experience in the field of audiology and hearing rehabilitation. Following a successful career in private practice in Oshkosh Wisconsin, Dutch born audiologist Dr. Juliëtte Sterkens is currently on her encore career as the Hearing Loss Association of America’s professional hearing loop advisor. In this capacity, she advocates for inclusion of telecoils in hearing aids and cochlear implants, and the installation of hearing loop systems that permit universal hearing access for consumers with hearing loss, the world over. Her efforts have led to nearly 800 loop installations in Wisconsin and many more around the US.
Listen for yourself
In church: youtube.com/watch?v=_3XoVrUjfaY
In a convention center: youtube.com/watch?v=RcfqmVb-DmU
How do hearing loops work? youtube.com/watch?v=hlnx3ZImTw0
Want to advocate for a loop in a location near you? Access HLAA’s toolkit for hearing loop advocacy: hearingloss.org/programs-events/get-hearing-loop
Find hearing loops around the USA: Time2LoopAmerica.com
Want to learn more about installing a loop in your own TV room- click here
Need help advocating for hearing loops?
Contact jsterkens@hearingloss.org or visit LoopWisconsin.com
Resources for hearing care professionals:
• hearingreview.com/assistive-tech/telecoils-hearing-loops-JSterkens
• loopwisconsin.com/Images_PDF/SterkensATMayJun.pdf
• audiologypractices.org/invigorate-your-practice-with-hearing-loops
• loopwisconsin.com/Images_PDF/ADA-getinloopJS.pdf
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Kim Cavitt, AuD - Advocating for Audiology
#005. Where do you find the answers? A discussion with Kim Cavitt, AuD
https://audiologyresources.com/about-kim-cavitt/
Kim Cavitt, AuD, owner of Audiology Resources, graduated with her master’s degree in audiology from Indiana University in 1991 and her AuD from Salus University in 2005. She spent nine years as a clinical audiologist and preceptor at The Ohio State and Northwestern Universities and spent two years as the Director of Professional Relations at Amplifon Hearing Services.)
Since 2001, Dr. Cavitt has operated her own audiology consulting firm, Audiology Resources, providing comprehensive practice management, operations, and reimbursement consulting services to hearing healthcare clinics, providers, organizations, buying groups, and manufacturers who want to be better equipped to compete in the managed care and health care areas.
Throughout her career, Dr. Cavitt has been actively involved in issues related to all aspects of audiology practice operations, management, coding, billing, third-party reimbursement, compliance, pricing, and managed care issues. She has written numerous articles, provided many training opportunities, and given numerous presentations at both the state and national levels on these topics. Dr. Cavitt is a past president of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) and the chair of the state of Illinois Speech Pathology and Audiology Licensure Board. She is an ADA representative and founding member of the Audiology Quality Consortium. She serves on committees through ADA and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is a senior contributor to Audiology Online and Audiology Practices.
Dr. Cavitt is an avid fan of her beloved Indiana Hoosiers and Chicago Cubs, and she also enjoys craft beer, bourbon, good food, travel, and spending time in her adopted hometown of Chicago.
- Owner:- Audiology Resources, Inc.
- Adjunct Faculty:- Northwestern University
- Consultant:- Academy of Doctors of Audiology, Illinois Academy of Audiology, Michigan Audiology Coalition & Audiology Online
- Volunteer:- Illinois Broad of Speech Pathology & Audiology, Audiology Quality Consortium, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Academy of Doctors of Audiology
#thinkaudiology
The mission of Think Audiology is to stop merely talking about the need for audiology awareness and actually do something about it, through the creation of consumer and audiologist resources.
For questions or to learn more or participate in the Think Audiology, contact Kim Cavitt at info@thinkaudiology.org.
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Welcome to Living LifeAloud!
#001. Confronting the truths and myths about hearing loss.
You are invited on a journey to better understand hearing loss, hearing healthcare, and its impact on your life. Primarily you will hear from people from all walks of life, as they share their stories, their own personal journeys with hearing loss. These will be from the individuals themselves, as well as some impactful narratives from family and friends who have navigated the, oftentimes, tumultuous waters of support for that person and their communication needs. Also, you will hear from experts, there will be interviews that will cover topics across the lifespan, from infants to seniors, with engaging discussions to include information on basic hearing anatomy and evaluations, importance to language acquisition, the manifestation of psychological challenges in adults, treatment options such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, and the critical need for aural rehabilitation. Discover how it happens, why it happens, what it looks like, what to do about it, and where to find answers.
Your companion on this mission is Jason Wigand. He began losing his hearing in his late teens and after a decade of rapid, progressive loss and continual hearing aid use, he received a cochlear implant. Five years later, in his mid-thirties, he completed graduate work and obtained a doctorate in audiology. As a clinical audiologist and educator, he has operated and provided care in academic, private practice, and nonprofit settings. He believes these discussions are critical to improving hearing healthcare and its importance in the public health landscape.
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Original music by Lauren Zettler