Live
broadcast (one-time viewing only): October 28, 2025,
1:00–3:00 p.m. Eastern time
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chance to sign up: October 28, 2025, Noon, Eastern
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Description:
This
webinar will share strategies and insights for recognizing an
individual’s unique personal and cultural histories and circumstances
when working with individuals with communication disorders. The course will
discuss common counseling challenges and evidence-based strategies you can use
to individualize sessions and integrate patients’ backgrounds,
values, beliefs, and communication styles into your work. This session will be
a blend of real-world clinical examples and actionable tips that you can use to
improve patient trust, engagement, and outcomes.
Learning
Outcomes
You will
be able to:
- Recognize the unique personal
and cultural histories and circumstances of yourself and your
patients
- Describe common challenges and
strategies to integrate patients’ backgrounds, values, beliefs, and
communication styles during counseling
Presenter
Information
Lipika
Sarangi, PhD, is an assistant professor in audiology at the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She completed her PhD and
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Memphis and has 7 years of audiology
clinical experience in India. Her long-term research seeks to develop and
validate individualized patient-centered auditory rehabilitation protocols to
improve real-world success with hearing aids in adults in their daily lives.
She is particularly interested in identifying the impacts of hearing aid
technology as well as patient characteristics (self-efficacy, personality,
emotion, etc.) on hearing aid success. In addition to continuing her research
endeavors, she also teaches amplification, counseling in audiology, and
research methods and evidence-based practice.
Disclosures:
- Full-time salaried employee at
the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Professional Development Manager
for ASHA SIG 7 (Auditory Rehabilitation)
- Received complimentary 1-year
ASHA Learning Pass subscription from ASHA for this presentation
Assessment
Type
Self-assessment—Think
about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your
new
knowledge.
To earn continuing education credit, you must complete the learning assessment by 11:59 p.m. ET on October 30, 2025.
Program
History and CE
Information
Live
webinar: October 28, 2025
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Eastern time
This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).
