Self-advocacy training for students with cochlear implants entering higher education

KDH研究与传播(KDHRC)提交这份第二阶段小型企业创新研究 (SBIR)应用扩展和全面评估人工耳蜗植入大学(CIU)。CiU是一个在线的、自我的 为16-21岁接受人工耳蜗术的高中生和大学生提供的宣传技能建设资源 还有他们的父母。CiU寻求发展高中生和大学生的自我倡导知识和技能，以 支持成功地向高等教育的学术和社会转型。 对CIU的需求是巨大的。越来越多的植入人工耳蜗术的学生进入了更高的 与他们的听力同龄人相比，他们的教育和经历了无数的学术和社会挑战。这些 挑战反过来又预示着辍学率的风险更高，学业和社会结果不佳，并可能导致 就业不足或失业。缺乏针对有CI的学生的自我倡导计划。 和高等教育转型。为了弥补这一差距，满足采取行动以证据为基础的呼声 帮助学生培养一套核心的自我宣传技能的计划，以支持成功的高等教育 在过渡期间，KDHRC开发和评估了CIU原型。与AG Bell合作，我们的第一阶段 努力产生了一个强大的原型，具有支持性的可行性结果和坚实的伙伴关系，我们以此为基础 我们的第二阶段方法。领先的听力损失倡导组织，亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔协会(AG Bell)和美国听力损失协会(HLAA)为评估、招聘和 完成的项目在第二阶段及以后的商业化。 在第二阶段，我们将开发额外的互动内容、电影视频片段，并最终敲定CIU。然后，我们 将进行为期四周、三个条件对照的随机对照研究 试验以测试CIU的有效性。我们的市场调查显示，我们有很大的需求和急切的市场，并得到了支持 来自无数致力于CIU科学严谨和快速传播的利益相关者进一步证实了CIU的 重要性和商业潜力。

KDH Research & Communication (KDHRC) submits this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) application to expand and fully evaluate Cochlear Implant University (CIU). CIU is an online, self- advocacy skills-building resource for high school and college students with cochlear implants (CIs) aged 16-21 and their parents. CIU seeks to develop high school and college students’ self-advocacy knowledge and skills to support a successful academic and social transition into higher education. The need for CIU is great. Increasing numbers of students with cochlear implants are entering higher education and experience myriad academic and social challenges compared to their hearing peers. These challenges in turn predict higher risk for dropout rates, poor academic and social outcomes, and may lead to underemployment or unemployment. There is a lack of self-advocacy programs specific to students with CIs and the higher education transition. To address this gap and to meet calls to action for evidence-based programs to help students develop a core set of self-advocacy skills to support a successful higher education transition, KDHRC developed and evaluated the CIU prototype. In collaboration with the AG Bell, our Phase I efforts yielded a strong prototype with supportive feasibility results and solid partnerships on which we base our Phase II approach. Leading hearing loss advocacy organizations, Alexander Graham Bell Association (AG Bell) and the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), provide support for evaluation, recruitment, and commercialization of the finished program throughout Phase II and beyond. In Phase II, we will develop additional interactive content, film video vignettes, and finalize CIU. Then, we will conduct a well-powered and methodologically strong four-week, three-condition controlled randomized trial to test CIU’s effectiveness. Our market research suggests a significant need and eager market, and support from myriad stakeholders committed to CIU scientific rigor and rapid dissemination further substantiate CIU’s importance and commercial potential.