Self-Monitoring

Self-monitoring is imperative to an aural rehab plan for a patient with hearing loss. Daily logs can be used with patients to help them assess their communication interactions (Tye-Murray, 2008). 

Goal: In 6 months the patient will use the Self-Assessment of Communication (SAC) to identify and monitor antecedents to communication breakdowns once daily in 4/5 weekly interactions with 80% accuracy as measured by self, communication partner, and/or SLP.

EBP: Convery, et. al, (2019) was able to indicate the participants of the study reported, "greater satisfaction with emotional-well being, social participation, sound quality and performance of their hearing aids" (Convery, et. al, 2019).

References:

Convery, E., Keidser, G., Hickson, L., & Meyer, C. (2019). The relationship between hearing loss self-management and hearing aid benefit and satisfaction. American Journal of Audiology, 28(2), 274–284. https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_aja-18-0130

Maidment, D., Henshaw, H., Heffernan, E., & Ferguson, M. (2019). Evidence-based interventions for adult aural rehabilitation: That was then, this is now. Seminars in Hearing, 40(01), 068–084. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1676784

Tye-Murray, N. (2008). Foundations of Aural Rehabilitation: Children, adults, and their family members. Delmar Cengage Learning.