Ryan, Riley, Tiff at Lullabies on the Links benefit golf tournament
ADVANCE for Audiologists magazine featured my family’s story as part of a series on Maintaining Patient Dignity. The piece is called The Coping Parent:
“In many cases, the parents of hearing-impaired children may need more counseling from their audiologists than the patients themselves.”
The article talks about ways audiologists can make it easier for parents to understand and deal with a diagnosis of hearing loss. And do it without belittling or being condescending toward parents.
Frank Visco, the assistant editor, did a wonderful job telling our story and putting together a slideshow of Riley. He found us through my post Delivering the Diagnosis: Your Child Is Deaf. Please visit the magazine’s site and leave a comment if you enjoyed the article.
Have you ever had a doctor or nurse make you feel like dumb like our first ENT did? How did you handle it? What else can doctors do to help patients’ families cope? Leave me a comment. Thanks!
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This Belle Rocks says:
I wish more articles like that existed. I don’t think a lot of medical personnel I have had an OB make me feel absolutely horrible for being pregnant after an insurance coverage lapse. He made me feel so bad that I reported him to our state medical board.
I am sorry you & Ryan had to go through something similar.
Sound Check Mama says:
Thanks, Kim. It was a good learning experience, and maybe it’ll help someone else. Especially those doing the diagnosing!