2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/04/2019 | 3:35 PM - 4:05 PM | Doubling the Effect of EHDI: Resources to Help Identify Twice as Many Children | London
Doubling the Effect of EHDI: Resources to Help Identify Twice as Many Children
Research indicates that by the time children enter school, at least 6 in 1000 are hard-of-hearing or deaf. Newborn hearing screening is able to identify approximately half of these children (3 in 1000), but what about the other half who experience late onset or progressive loss or who were missed by newborn screening efforts? Health care providers do not consistently perform evidence-based hearing screenings as a part of well child visits. There is also evidence that not all children entering Part C early intervention programs receive a hearing screening, even though many present with concerns about speech and language development. EHDI programs are among the best positioned resources in states to be able to lend a hand to support the efforts of those who are engaged in periodic hearing screening and follow-up activities throughout early childhood. Do you know who is providing periodic hearing screening in your state and how you can easily promote and support their efforts?
Participants in this session will learn how to double their impact by identifying programs that are providing periodic early childhood hearing screening in their states and how EHDI audiologists and program coordinators can easily use online resources to engage in statewide screening training efforts. Participants will learn about the importance of building relationships with existing screening programs and easy-to-share resources focused on otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and pure tone screening for young children. Participants will learn how simple efforts to engage with existing periodic hearing screening programs can potentially dramatically improve the quality of periodic screening and follow-up that occurs in their states that can lead to the identification of many more children who are hard-of-hearing or deaf.
- Participants will learn about the importance of periodic screening throughout early childhood
- Participants will learn who is doing periodic screening, the methods being used, and quality concerns about current practices.
- Participants will learn about currently available online training resources to support the development of OAE and Pure Tone screening practices that can lead to the identification of children with late onset and progressive hearing loss.
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Lenore Shisler
(Author), NCHAM, leshisler@gmail.com;
Lenore Shisler is a Senior Research Scientist with the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management who provides technical assistance to newborn and early childhood hearing screening programs.
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William Eiserman
(Primary Presenter), EHDI NTRC - NCHAM, will.eiserman@gmail.com;
Dr. William Eiserman is the Director of Early Childhood Projects and the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative at the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM), Utah State University. Dr. Eiserman's background includes program evaluation, instructional design, project management, and training.
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Terry Foust
(Co-Presenter), Intermountain Healthcare, terry@foustmail.com;
Terry Foust, AuD., has implemented and directed large newborn hearing screening programs in Utah and Idaho. He has provided consultation services to the Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the HRSA Office of Performance Review (OPR), the Medicaid and Medicare Policy Research Center and the NCHAM. He is a National Technical Assistance Network audiologist for NCHAM providing support to state EHDI programs and the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach program.
International experience includes work and consultation in Accra (Ghana Africa), Costa Rica, Cairo Egypt, and most recently in Mumbai India.
Professional honors include being the first recipient of the newly established Mary J. Webster Distinguished Service Award from the Utah Speech-Language and Hearing Association, recognition by Utah Business Magazine as the 2007 Healthcare Hero of the year as an administrator, the 2006 recipient of the national Larry H. Mauldin award for excellence in audiology education and other honors.
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Sonia Samaniego
(Co-Presenter), Arizona Department of Health Services | Bureau of Women's and CHildren's Health, sonia.samaniego@azdhs.gov;
Sonia Samaniego serves as the Education and Advocacy Program Manager for the Office for Children with Special Healthcare Needs. She has served in a number of roles advocating for families of children with Sensory needs along with efforts to improve Early Childhood Screening and Sensory Training Programs within her state. Mrs. Samaniego continues to educate and increase awareness for hearing screenings within her community.
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