Rehabilitation Skills for Professionals Working with Acquired Hearing Loss in Adults

By the end of this course you should be able to:
support people with hearing loss in making appropriate behaviour changes in their everyday lives
evaluate different approaches to aural rehabilitation and make decisions about which are suitable for development in your workplace
use a collaborative, problem-solving approach when discussing the difficulties experienced by people with hearing loss
make adaptations to your services so they're more accessible to older people and people with dementia

The course is suitable for:
audiologists
hearing therapists
hearing aid dispensers
ENT staff (doctors and nurses)
social workers involved with sensory impairment
lip reading teachers
people who work for charities that support people with hearing loss

You'll be expected to do some reading in advance of the course.
The course involves a mixture of lectures, discussions and interactive workshops.
The lectures will present both research evidence and personal accounts.
In interactive sessions you'll:
discuss topics from the lectures
share your own experiences
evaluate journal articles
watch video clips and take part in discussion forums with service users
take part in group activities and role play