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In this episode, Dr. Saperstain speaks with Dr. Karen Muñoz. Dr. Muñoz is an audiologist of many years and department head and professor of communicative disorders and deaf education at Utah state university. Dr. Karen Muñoz specialized in the administrative, educational, and research fields of audiology after spending many years as a clinical practitioner. She also started the Hear to Learn  (Oir para aprender) program which is a website with many resources for parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

This week on the All About Audiology podcast:

* 9:15 – Parents are the key to how intervention is going to go for their child. And what I would like parents to really embrace is how essential they are.

* 12:35 – Oftentimes audiologists want to focus on the technical stuff. We got a lot we do have to care about and we have to care about what’s happening with the parent and their thoughts and feelings that can interfere with what goes on every single day that they’re with a child

* 15:50 – The resources that bridge the hearing care team and the parents.

* 20:00 –  Even when parents get a “hearing aid care kit”  too often, they don’t use it, or don’t know what to do with it.

* 23:05 –  How parents can make informed decisions. 

* 27:10 – And I think as ethical professionals It’s about having those conversations about what are their underlying thoughts, feelings, and questions. That’s where we focus our efforts to be, that support for the families and helping them get what they need

* 29:30 – We are in a really key position to make sure they have the information that they need, we are not in the position to tell them what they have to do, but we’re there to help them have confidence!

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Guest’s links:

Hear to Learn

Mentioned in this episode:

* H.E.A.R retreats* Language first* Peach questionnaire* Little Ears questionnaire

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