Robin Morehouse - Clinical Professor Extraordinaire
Teaches us a Trick or Four
Teaches us a Trick or Four
You too can speed up your testing without writing everything down as you go
How aptly and gently Robin pointed out to a few students in clinic one day the following trick and tip. As the students painstakingly looked back and forth from the immittance unit to their clipboard, wrote down, one-by-one, each Acoustic Reflex Threshold (ART) they had obtained (on the GSI-33, n
ow replaced by the GSI Tympstar), he suggested and felt certain they could recall the 1st three of those thresholds, finish the 4th one, and then quickly write them all down before moving onto the next in the battery of tests an active child would need. But what about the 4th ART? Being the last one, it was right there still on the screen.
How aptly and gently Robin pointed out to a few students in clinic one day the following trick and tip. As the students painstakingly looked back and forth from the immittance unit to their clipboard, wrote down, one-by-one, each Acoustic Reflex Threshold (ART) they had obtained (on the GSI-33, n
ow replaced by the GSI Tympstar), he suggested and felt certain they could recall the 1st three of those thresholds, finish the 4th one, and then quickly write them all down before moving onto the next in the battery of tests an active child would need. But what about the 4th ART? Being the last one, it was right there still on the screen.Perhaps you can find other ways to apply this principle. . .
Here's a tip I use on toddlers who are unwilling to let me put a probe in their ear canal AND have a slighter older sibling - I do the test on the older sibling first (they have always been willing) and then the toddler is more likely to tolerate a probe tip in their ear canal. Somehow, seeing a slightly older child do this is more reassuring than seeing mom or dad do it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dancewater!! Your wonderful suggestion also ties into the posting below: see "Use Bubbles+ other distractions posting below for other tips about re: keeping probe in child's ear.
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