Active Communication Education (ACE)
ACE Your Hearing
ACE Your Hearing is a communication education program designed to help adults with hearing loss and their families and friends to improve their communication, confidence, and participation in everyday life. The program focuses on practical strategies for managing communication challenges and also addresses the emotional and social impacts of hearing loss.
The program has recently been redeveloped and expanded through a collaborative co-design process involving audiologists, audiometrists, speech pathologists, hearing researchers, community organisations, and people with hearing loss and their families. This updated version, ACE Your Hearing, reflects contemporary hearing healthcare practices and the evolving needs of both consumers and hearing professionals.
ACE Your Hearing provides flexible modules that can be delivered in small groups or community settings and focuses on practical communication strategies, wellbeing, hearing technology use, and shared problem-solving with communication partners. The program is currently undergoing evaluation in clinical and community settings, with a large-scale randomised controlled trial currently underway.
Program Resources
The ACE Your Hearing program includes a comprehensive suite of resources designed to support both facilitators and participants.
Facilitator resources:
• Facilitator Manual
• PowerPoint presentation slides for each session
• Structured activity guides and discussion prompts
• Embedded video content to support learning and discussion
Participant resources:
• Participant Workbook for adults with hearing loss
• Family and Friend Workbook for communication partners
Multimedia resources:
• Educational videos demonstrating key concepts and communication strategies
• Short videos introducing each module to support sessions
These resources are designed to support flexible delivery of the program across clinical, community, and educational settings.
Contact:
Dr Jasmine Foley
jasmine.foley@uq.edu.au
Postdoc Research Fellow
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The University of Queensland