Considerations for Building the Hearing Quality Evidence Base

All hearing quality work is important and can make a meaningful contribution to the field. Even if you are just gathering hearing quality baseline information to better learn about what practice looks like in courts in your state, this information can be meaningful to others. Everyone is in a different place. Your work may inspire others in ways that you have not yet thought of.

Carl Sandburg once wrote “everybody is cleverer than anybody.” This is the best lesson in dissemination. Even as an expert in the field, the smartest person does not have the collective knowledge that everyone working on the same issue has. If we are able to share our methods, our tools, our data, and our findings, then we can collectively learn what works in the field and make more informed decisions that can positively impact the children and families that we serve.