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Client profile: A school aged student that is working toward independent maintenance of his/her listening devices to ensure optimal listening at all times. This student will have the understanding of the importance of routine use of amplification devices and will begin focusing on the steps needed to check that they are working properly on a daily basis.
Goal: Student will use and care for his/her assisted hearing device (i.e., hearing aid, cochlear implant) by independently completing daily routine checks to ensure it is working properly in 4/5 opportunities, across 5 consecutive sessions as measured by SLP data collection.
Hearing Aid Daily Checklist
Hearing Aid Daily Checklist
Work toward increasing independence for hearing aid maintenance with this daily checklist. First begin by identifying and explaining the items on the checklist that will be reviewed during a daily check.
Check in:
Receivers in hearing aids
Ling 10 check
DM check
Check out:
Receivers put away
DMs plugged in for charging
*Battery replacement?
Student's can review the daily checklist at home, in the classroom, or in therapy to learn what they need to do daily in order to ensure that hearing aids are working properly. This visual checklist will be used to support and facillitate the child's independence in maintaiing and wearing assisted hearing devices.
Materials:
Student's listening device
Ling 10 sound list
Daily checklist
Writing utensils: pencil, pens
Cueing: Verbal and visual cueing may be provided as needed to support the child in effectively completing and checking items off the checklist.
Data Tracking: Data will be quantitative using a tally system and will be reviewed weekly to assess the level of assistance required to adjust hearing aids. The hearing aid checklist will serve has a weekly data collection sheet.
EBP: According to ASHA, the child with a hearing impairment and their family are significant parts of the care team when hearing aids are newly introduced as part of an aural rehabilitation plan. It is important that children where assistive listening devices routinely to promote improved hearing abilitites and reduce the amount of information that can be missed resulting from hearing impairment (Walker et al., 2015). Walker et al., (2015) concluded in a study that children that wear listening devices regularly will have less of a risk for deficits in vocabulary and grammar usage. Children wearing assisted listening devices will depend on family to help maintain devices and encourage regular use. Speech language pathologists will play an integral part in educating the family and child about device management and the importance of routine use (ASHA).
References
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (n.d.). Hearing aids for children. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Retrieved December 18, 2022, from https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/professional-issues/hearing-aids-for-children/#collapse_1
Walker, E. A., Holte, L., McCreery, R. W., Spratford, M., Page, T., & Moeller, M. P. (2015). The influence of hearing aid use on outcomes of children with mild hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(5), 1611–1625. https://doi.org/10.1044/2015_jslhr-h-15-0043
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