2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/17/2024 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | EHDI 101 | Centennial E-F
EHDI 101
Presentation:
3478265_16531SandraBattiste.pdf
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Transcripts:
3478265_16531KarlWhite.RTF
Presenters/Authors
Karl White
(Primary Presenter), Utah State University, karl.white@usu.edu;
Dr. White is a Professor of Psychology, the Emma Eccles Jones Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education, and the founding Director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management. He has been the PI or Co-PI for over $50 million of competitively awarded research. His work has been recognized with awards from such diverse organizations as the Deafness Research Foundation, the American Association for Speech Language and Hearing, The Swedish Society of Medicine, and the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. He has hundreds of publications and presentations at scholarly meetings, and has been an invited speaker to more than 35 countries. He also serves on many national and international advisory groups for organizations such as the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Allison Sedey
(Co-Presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the assessment and accountability coordinator for the Early Intervention Outreach Program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. Dr. Sedey received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied language acquisition in children who are deaf/hard of hearing as well as in children who have Down syndrome. Since that time, she has served as the project coordinator on a variety of grant-funded research projects examining predictors of developmental outcomes in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Sedey is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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• Receives Grants for Employment from Centers for Disease Control.
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Linda Hazard
(Co-Presenter), Vermont Department of Health, linda.hazard@partner.vermont.gov;
Linda Hazard is the Program Director for the Vermont Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program and the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Deaf Blind Educational Services Program. She has a masters degree in Audiology and a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Social Policy.
Linda is currently the Past Co-President of DSHPSHWA and serves on two Governor appointed boards in Vermont.
Prior to coming to VTEHDI Linda was the Director of Audiology and the Cochlear Implant Program for the University of Vermont Medical Center. Additionally she worked for Cochlear Americas in clinical research and Advanced Bionics in Education and Training.
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Lisa Kovacs
(Co-Presenter), Hands & Voices , lisakovacs@handsandvoices.org ;
Lisa Kovacs is the Director of Programs for Hands & Voices Headquarters and the Director of the Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center. She and her husband Brian have four young adult children including her son who is hard of hearing/deaf. Lisa was the 2019 Antonio Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence recipient. Her professional interest include; Parent Advocacy; Implementation of parent participation and engagement in systems building; Parent to Parent support; Deaf Education Reform; IDEA, ESSA, Part C and Part B Training to Parents, and Parent Leadership Training and Development.
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Arielle Spellun
(Co-Presenter), Division of Developmental Medicine, Arielle.Spellun@childrens.harvard.edu;
Arielle Spellun is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician fellow at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, MA. She is from Warwick, RI and went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA for her undergraduate degree in Biology where she also studied ASL and Deaf Studies. She attended medical school at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She hopes to practice developmental and behavioral pediatrics and work as a medical home provider for children who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing as well as children with special health care needs and medical complexity.
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Erika Odom
(Co-Presenter), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, iyo7@cdc.gov;
CDR Erika Odom (Commander, United States Public Health Service) has spent 15 years shaping science and programs using a health equity perspective grounded in biopsychosocial frameworks in human development. She received her PhD in Applied Developmental Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, conducting research on maternal mental health and the association with various developmental outcomes for young children. CDR Odom joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2010 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer where her work focused on promoting supportive environments for women who choose to breastfeed. She then went on the serve with the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, honing skills in registry data collection, evaluation and translational research within populations living with blood disorders and that have been systematically marginalized in healthcare. From 2014-2023, CDR Odom served as an Epidemiologist in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. There she excelled in program management and developed subject matter expertise focused on the pre-hospital environment and improving the stroke and cardiac chain of survival. In her most recent tenure, she serves as the Team Lead for the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, working with a team of passionate public health professionals, shaping the future of early hearing surveillance and data quality improvement.
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Sandra Battiste
(Co-Presenter), Sandra@example.com;
Sandra Battiste has over 15 years of government experience in Public Health. She has worked within a myriad of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs including Metabolic and Newborn Hearing screening, Home Visitation, Safe Sleep and some adolescent health programs. Her career began with the District of Columbia (DC) Government where she worked with the both the Metabolic Screening and EHDI Programs. Eventually she became the EHDI Coordinator for DC. After seven years with the DC Government, Sandra took the opportunity serve as a public health analyst for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) where her work with EHDI continues. Not only is she the project officer (PO) for some impressive EHDI programs but she also is the PO for the Family Leadership in Language and Learning Center (also known as the FL3 Center). Additionally, Sandra also works with the Family-to-Family Health Information Centers Program. Sandra serves on several work groups within the Bureau and across agencies.
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