HEARing CRC Supervisor: Louise Hickson

HEARing CRC Project: R4.1.1

Title:  Obtaining a better aural rehabilitation outcome by matching client and clinician beliefs and goals.

Detail: Linking the needs of the hearing impaired adult to the thoughts and behaviours of the audiologist is of particular interest in this research. The proposed project aims to improve the uptake and success of hearing rehabilitation services. By determining factors that influence unsatisfactory outcomes with hearing aids versus satisfactory outcomes we hope to suggest ways of providing more appropriate aural rehabilitation programs.

Specifically, the proposal research is to look at the match between client and clinician in terms of both inherent schemas and external factors, for example:

a) health belief models

b) goal setting theories

c) generational expectations.