Auburn University Audiology Outreach in Guatemala
Serving the street children of Guatemala City
Day 2 of testing- one day late!- Entered by Sandra Clark Lewis
August 11, 2009
This was a very long day for the group. We arrived at Las Rosa School at 8:45. This is a school for 150 girls age 6-14 and although there is much less classroom noise at this school there is more street noise. The school had put up two portable sound buffering walls which helped with the noise and we set out to screening the girls and 7 children who had been brought in from the outlying schools. Just after arriving Georgina Mariscal, our Auburn Audiology alumna from Guatemala arrived to say hello. She asked about all of her professors from Auburn including Martha Miller (who was her clinical instructor while I was on a leave of absence and away in Virginia). She remembered fondly Martha (Paxton) Wilson, Curtis Smith, Rebekah Pindzola, Mike Moran and Bill Haynes. Georgina was the first audiologist in this country and we are very proud that she is one of our own.
The students were outstanding today and their speed of testing and clinical decision making is impressive. We had scheduled the audiology students to have different experiences each day rotating through screening, follow-up testing, making earmold impressions, programming hearing aids and delivering hearing aids. It was a great idea but today the best laid plans were abandoned and everyone did whatever needed to be done. After entering all the data and completing all of the follow up work there was no time to add this to the NING site!
Everyone in Guatemala is impressed with the Audiology students, their work ethic and compassion for these children. Each of our Audiology students is making an important contribution to this project and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to work closely with each of them.
This was a very long day for the group. We arrived at Las Rosa School at 8:45. This is a school for 150 girls age 6-14 and although there is much less classroom noise at this school there is more street noise. The school had put up two portable sound buffering walls which helped with the noise and we set out to screening the girls and 7 children who had been brought in from the outlying schools. Just after arriving Georgina Mariscal, our Auburn Audiology alumna from Guatemala arrived to say hello. She asked about all of her professors from Auburn including Martha Miller (who was her clinical instructor while I was on a leave of absence and away in Virginia). She remembered fondly Martha (Paxton) Wilson, Curtis Smith, Rebekah Pindzola, Mike Moran and Bill Haynes. Georgina was the first audiologist in this country and we are very proud that she is one of our own.
The students were outstanding today and their speed of testing and clinical decision making is impressive. We had scheduled the audiology students to have different experiences each day rotating through screening, follow-up testing, making earmold impressions, programming hearing aids and delivering hearing aids. It was a great idea but today the best laid plans were abandoned and everyone did whatever needed to be done. After entering all the data and completing all of the follow up work there was no time to add this to the NING site!
Everyone in Guatemala is impressed with the Audiology students, their work ethic and compassion for these children. Each of our Audiology students is making an important contribution to this project and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to work closely with each of them.
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