Representatives from two of these agencies (the
Toronto Infant Hearing Program and VOICE for Hearing Impaired Children)
came to speak with George Brown students about some of the real issues
faced by the families they support. Following these presentations,
students from the Hearing Instrument Specialist program (first year),
Collaborative Nursing (3rd year) program and student guest visitors
from the Communication Disorders Assistant program at Durham College,
broke into in small groups to discuss and share perspectives about
the issues and challenges demonstrated in case studies involving children
with hearing loss and their families.
Here are a few participants' comments about this interprofessional
learning experience:
"I found it rather interesting to be
in a classroom filled with people from other disciplines...
I was able to hear other
peoples' perspectives on hearing loss issues. It's
always interesting to hear different view
points, especially when those views are coming from
a different frame of reference than your own... it
proved to be a unique learning experience."
"It was very interesting
to be in an atmosphere where for once nursing students
were the minority of the
group... hearing peoples'
points of view regarding a certain topic without
incorporating some sort of nursing theory was also
a different experience. I guess I've gotten
so used to hearing how nurses should perceive things
that I forgot that there are other ways of looking
at things."
"I really felt like I broadened my horizons
by talking to another different but interrelated
program. I was able to use my knowledge to hopefully
better their knowledge of my 'world'
and definitely have
them expand my knowledge."
For further information please contact:
Gary
Kapelus, Professor and Coordinator, Interprofessional Education
Email:
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