2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/20/2018 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM | Expand Your Resource Kit: New Online Screening Training Options to Increase Early Identification of Children with Late Onset Hearing Loss | Granite A-C
Expand Your Resource Kit: New Online Screening Training Options to Increase Early Identification of Children with Late Onset Hearing Loss
As EHDI program staff, are you the “go to” informational resource for just about anything related to deaf and hard-of-hearing young children in your State? If so, you can be assured this is one of the many valuable roles you can play in your state. The incidence of permanent hearing loss doubles between birth and the time children enter school, from approximately 3 in 1000 at birth to 6 in 1000 by school-age. With limited resources, how will your State EHDI program find and serve these children with late onset and progressive hearing loss? By learning about the new training resources available, EHDI staff will be prepared with effective tools to partner with early care and education providers, health care providers and others to improve the quantity and quality of screeners statewide.
Participants in this session will learn about who is doing periodic hearing screening in their states, the methods that are being used, and the online resources that are available to support the implementation of evidence-based screening practices including otoacoustic emissions (OAE) and pure tone screening. Options for OAE screening program development and screener training include self-paced online modules and quarterly web-based classes provided by the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative staff. Widespread concern about the lack of standardized instruction for pure tone screener training in many states has led to the development of a parallel set of online pure tone screening training modules. As EHDI staff and audiologists become familiar with these new online training options, they will have the capacity to support the expanding set of programs and providers who are conducting hearing screening statewide that can lead to the early identification of children with late onset and progressive hearing loss.
- 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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William Eiserman
(Point of Contact,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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Lenore Shisler
(Co-Presenter), 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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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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