All About Finding The Resources That Best Fit Your Family

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All About Audiology - Hearing Resources to Empower YOU

Lilach Saperstein

95 episodes

9 months ago

AllAboutAudiology is a podcast hosted by Dr. Lilach Saperstein, an audiologist helping parents and teachers of children with hearing loss, or anyone interested in hearing health, to understand audiology topics. On the podcast, we explore how hearing works and discuss tools for becoming empowered advocates. Every other week, in the All About YOU segment, Dr. Saperstein answers your questions about anything from ear infections and tubes to deciding on cochlear implant surgery, deaf education, and sign language. In addition to: "My baby didn't pass the hearing screening!" "My child can hear but doesn't understand!" "Is my child deaf?" "Should I use sign language?" "Do I need a hearing aid?" "Should I get my hearing tested?" "Pros and cons of cochlear implants" "What are ear tubes" and much more.

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All About Finding The Resources That Best Fit Your Family – Episode 91 with Dr. Karen Muñoz

All About Audiology - Hearing Resources to Empower YOU

38 minutes 30 seconds

3 years ago

All About Finding The Resources That Best Fit Your Family – Episode 91 with Dr. Karen Muñoz

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In this episode, Dr. Saperstain speaks with Dr. Karen Muñoz. Dr. Muñoz is an audiologist of many years and department head and professor of communicative disorders and deaf education at Utah state university. Dr. Karen Muñoz specialized in the administrative, educational, and research fields of audiology after spending many years as a clinical practitioner. She also started the Hear to Learn (Oir para aprender) program which is a website with many resources for parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This week on the All About Audiology podcast:

* 9:15 – Parents are the key to how intervention is going to go for their child. And what I would like parents to really embrace is how essential they are.

* 12:35 – Oftentimes audiologists want to focus on the technical stuff. We got a lot we do have to care about and we have to care about what’s happening with the parent and their thoughts and feelings that can interfere with what goes on every single day that they’re with a child

* 15:50 – The resources that bridge the hearing care team and the parents.

* 20:00 – Even when parents get a “hearing aid care kit” too often, they don’t use it, or don’t know what to do with it.

* 23:05 – How parents can make informed decisions.

* 27:10 – And I think as ethical professionals It’s about having those conversations about what are their underlying thoughts, feelings, and questions. That’s where we focus our efforts to be, that support for the families and helping them get what they need

* 29:30 – We are in a really key position to make sure they have the information that they need, we are not in the position to tell them what they have to do, but we’re there to help them have confidence!

For more resources and research visit:

All About Audiology Website

All About Audiology Facebook group

All About Audiology Instagram

And the Prodana pay-it-forward platform here: https://prodana.org/practioner/lilach-saperstein/audiology-counseling–dr–lilach-saperstein

Guest’s links:

Hear to Learn

Mentioned in this episode:

* H.E.A.R retreats* Language first* Peach questionnaire* Little Ears questionnaire

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