Paediatric Habilitation: Fridays over 5 weeks 17 Feb - 17 Mar 2017

The aims and objectives of this module include: 

• To establish core skills in managing hearing loss in infants and children to optimise life-long auditory potential
• To apply verification and validation techniques for amplification and listening technologies
• To integrate care across a team of professionals, centred around the needs of the family
• To be able to present and support early communication options around family choice
• To understand and derive functional measures of benefit to under-pin decision making and practice around evidence-based current practice for audition and expressive speech outcomes
• IQIPS, regulatory performance and quality in paediatric healthcare

Topics will include:

• Family centered hearing management: Components of effective intervention: why family-focus, HA selection and verification, impression-taking, Framework for paediatric habilitation and verification, Positive support for families from the start
• Cohesive intervention an assessment of progress; Use of standards and EDHI programme, HA validation and functional assessment, Core outcomes and culture of service-evaluation, Aetiology and intervention approaches 
• Advanced amplification considerations 
• Functional Speech Outcome Measures and Access to Speech: Vocalisation development and speech milestone, Giving the child a voice and hearing it, The child in the educational environment, Special populations including Autism
• Quality in Paediatric Healthcare IQIPS, regulatory performance and quality control

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/study/cpd-courses/coursepages/aamc-paedhab