Video Interpretation for Patients With Hearing Loss

In health care settings, effective communication is vital. Miscommunication during diagnoses or post-discharge treatment plans can lead to serious consequences. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires hospitals to provide effective communication means for patients, families and hospital visitors. Fortunately, technology advances mean hospitals can offer patients and their families video remote interpreting (VRI). VRI allows patients to communicate with audiologists, speech-language pathologists, doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in their native or preferred language—including various forms of manual or signed language—and receive access to quality care. More on improving patient communication: The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is bringing hearing help to medicine’s frontlines: primary care. To truly put patients in the center of their own care, we need to ensure they can effectively communicate with providers and loved ones—and vice versa. Our professions are integral to making this happen. Use these insights from an audiologist, physician and SLP to show clients that you want and value their input into their own treatment. In a University of Washington training program, medical and speech-language faculty and students collaborate to prepare future physicians to treat people with communication disorders. Sign language interpreters have been providing remote video services for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community (HOH) since 2...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Tags: Audiology American Sign Langauge Health Care Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Source Type: blogs