Early Parent Interaction in Deafness (EPID)
NIHR Funded Project
The professionals’ survey has been open since the 5th May, exactly eight weeks today. We have 100 full responses. I am blown away and hugely appreciative to those who have filled it out so far. Though most of the answers are tick boxes and sliding scales, the survey requests that clinicians reflect on their practice … Continue reading Professionals’ Survey – An Update
You’ll be pleased to know our systematic review is complete. It’s currently sitting with the supervisory team, but we hope to get it out there very soon! We have funding to cover open access, so the paper will be accessible for all. In the next phase of the EPID project, we want to know how … Continue reading Professionals’ Survey Launches Today!
Here’s another video made especially for this year’s Sign Language Week. Here I speak with Helen Pine. She’s a Deaf Instructor, working in Hackney… Continue reading Working Collaboratively and Sign Language Week 2021
It’s an important week this week: Sign Language Week 2021. I made a video and wrote a blog post at work and wanted to share it with you here too! BSL still has a mountain to climb before gaining approved legal status. This would mean the government and other organisations would need to create inclusive, … Continue reading Happy Sign Language Week 2021
On Friday, I met the final two parents of my Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group, I call it my ‘Parent Involvement Group’ because these wonderful people are not patients, but just as important. Please meet Juliet (top left) and Hannah (bottom). Very kindly, they both gave me two hours of their time to share … Continue reading Welcome on board!
As the website already explains in the ‘Developing the EPID‘ section, the first study within this project is a systematic review. A systematic review (SR) compiles lots of evidence in one area to provide an answer to a specific research question. The method in how the evidence is collected and analysed must be completely transparent … Continue reading The first job – A Systematic Review
Earlier this week, I introduced my supervisors and the hearing and deaf professionals I have on my advisory board. The final group I want to introduce is my parent involvement group. They. Are. Wonderful. This is a photo of our first meeting in December 2020: ‘ Unfortunately, there are two … Continue reading Incredible Involvement – Parents of Deaf Children
Yesterday, I introduced my PhD Supervisory Team. Today I wanted to introduce another wonderful source of support. This is my advisory board:Top L to R: BSL Interpreter Kal Newby, Me, Karin Schamroth, Evelyne Mercure. Middle L to R: Julie Hare, Martine Monksfield, Tina Wakefield, Julie Hughes. Bottom L to R: Lisa Smith, Sabina Iqbal and … Continue reading Sensational Support
Hello! Welcome! This is my second blog post of the EPID. I am now eight months into the project and many wonderful things have happened so far. I started my PhD during the first peak in the pandemic (and I’ll be making a separate post about that in the Clinical Academic section). It was a … Continue reading Dream Team!
Hello! Welcome to my first post. My name is Martina and I hope to be using this blog as a way of journeying through the creation of the EPID Tool. I’ve had this fellowship for six months now, so over the next few weeks, I’ll be looking back on my first six months as well … Continue reading Hello and welcome!
