Communication Tips
Submitted by: Steve Barber, Hearing Loss Association of Wake Chapter, Raleigh, NC
These two files provide printable (4 on a page) lists of tips for people with hearing loss. One side is tips on how hearing people can communicate better with people who have a hearing loss. The other side is tips on how people with hearing loss can help themselves in a communication situation. The files are both Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files so you may download and view them on any PC which has the free Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. The material on them is used by permission from Sam Trychin.
If you print these on opposite sides of the same 8.5" x 11" card stock, (carefully so they both have the same top) you can then cut each page into four roughly post card size sections.
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Introduction to Hearing Loss
Submitted by: Steve Barber, Wake Chapter, Raleigh, NC
This Introduction to Hearing Loss is a single page (front and back). The pdf files are those two pages, so print them back-to-back on the same piece of paper (with the same tops). There is some North Carolina specific information on these, so I've also supplied the MS Publisher source. If you have MS Publisher and know how to edit the .pub file you can replace the North Carolina specific material with your own material.
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Audiology-Tech (OTO-Tech) Licensure Information
Submitted by: Ginny Clark-Wright, HLA-Arizona
This pdf provides information on Audiology-Tech or OTO-Tech licensing guidelines by state. These technical "credentials" are new and represent a potential for consumer confusion about the qualifications of the hearing health care providers they deal with. It was hard enough just learning CCC-A, Au.D., HIS, and the host of alphabet soup that some providers routinely append to their names. These new "Tech" positions are gaining ground and that's fine, as long as the states define appropriate guidelines for what they can and can't do, and as long as providers follow those guidelines. Until then, it's "buyer beware".
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Otolaryngology Personnel Certificate Program
Submitted by: Ginny Clark-Wright, HLA-Arizona
This pdf provides information on a program that certifies "Otolaryngology Assistants". It was hard enough just learning CCC-A, Au.D., HIS, and the host of alphabet soup that some providers routinely append to their names. These new "assistant" positions are gaining ground and that's fine, as long as the states define appropriate guidelines for what they can and can't do, and as long as providers follow those guidelines. Until then, it's "buyer beware".
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