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10/27/2019  |   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM   |  Ventana Ballroom C

Sustainability and the Challenges Facing Future Leaders in Humanitarian Hearing Healthcare

In this presentation, Kaitlyn Froese, a third-year audiology graduate student from the University of Arizona, will describe her personal experience as a volunteer in the ARSOBO Hearing Healthcare program based in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The presentation will focus on the challenges faced by future, cross border, humanitarian hearing healthcare providers to meet the needs of an expanding low resourced population. A challenge regularly faced by audiologists when working beyond the conventional clinical environment is adapting accepted best practices in a low resourced clinical setting. As future clinicians, audiology graduate students learn to overcome this challenge through the integration and application of accepted hearing healthcare models from both sides of the border with efforts to respect and adapt to cultural differences. Innovative graduate student research on the selection and first fitting of hearing aids using low cost high-quality devices will be discussed. Methods for validating post fit hearing aid benefit using standardized questionnaires will also be presented. Similarly, the challenge of counseling families on comprehensive hearing health in a culturally sensitive manner will be discussed. A demographic description of the population with diverse hearing disorders will be identified to provide examples of long-term clinical management. As such, strategies for engaging the family in counseling on implications of auditory disorders and best management given available resources will be reviewed. With limited means available to the family comes the challenge of identifying and utilizing community-based resources, such as the nonprofit organization Manitas Que Hablan and the public social assistance program The National System for Integral Family Development. The care and services offered by the ARSOBO Hearing Healthcare program are comprehensive and integrative, providing an excellent learning experience for all members of communities on both sides of the border.

• Describe how ARSOBO achieves clinical best practice in such a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Identify the challenges that students face when providing clinical best practice in a low-resourced community.
• Describe how ARSOBO promotes parent-child education in a culturally sensitive manner.

Presentation:
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David Velenovsky (Co-Presenter), tba, dsv@email.arizona.edu;
tba

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists.

Kaitlyn Froese (Primary Presenter), ARSOBO, kjfroese@email.arizona.edu;
Kaitlyn Froese (POC, Primary Presenter), University of Arizona, kjfroese@email.arizona.edu; Kaitlyn Froese is a third year Doctor of Audiology candidate in the University of Arizona Department of Speech Language and Hearing Science in Tucson, Arizona. Over the last year, Kaitlyn has been a bilingual team leader for the Arizona Sonora Borders (ARSOBO) Hearing Healthcare Program in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. She is an active member of the Student Academy of Audiology and plays an integral role as a clinical and teaching assistant in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science at the University of Arizona. She will be defending her doctoral project in the Spring of 2020 before heading to her externship where she hopes to pursue her goal of working as a diagnostic audiologist.

ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.

AAA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exists.