Abstract:
Arizona State University’s Speech and Hearing Clinic faculty and students
provide person-centered group rehabilitation to individuals with hearing
loss and their communication partners. The goals of this rehabilitation
program are twofold: 1) support and educate individuals in the community
who are learning to manage the effects of their hearing loss, and 2)
provide interprofessional preparation to students in our AuD and SLP
clinical training programs. The aims of this presentation are to discuss
the transition of both the community education and the clinical training
components of this program from an on-ground to an online modality, and to
describe strategies for maintaining community connections during the
COVID-19 pandemic. One of our long-standing community partners is a local
group of retirees who engage in lifelong learning through the community
college system. Our clinic has provided community-based rehabilitation for
this group for a number of years. In Fall 2020, our partnership
transitioned from in-person to online teletherapy sessions. Success and
challenges during this transitions from the perspectives of faculty,
students, and community partners will be shared. Logistics of managing
changes to the curriculum and schedule, approaches to educating
participants in use of video teleconference and captioning technology, and
strategies for supporting interprofessional student learning will be
discussed.
Email address: ahelms@asu.edu
Date we can meet: May 3rd, 12:00 noon - 2:00pm, CDT
Attached: title slide, to be replaced with full slide presentation by April
23rd
Contributors: Aparna Rao, Ph.D.; Hsiao-hsiuan Chou, B.S.