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ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Title: 'LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF HEARING SCREENING PROTOCOLS WITHIN EARLY HEAD START PROGRAMS' Track: 3-Early Intervention and Beyond Audience: Primary Audience: Other - State EHDI Directors Secondary Audience: Audiologist Tertiary Audeince: Medical Provider Keyword(s): OAE Hearing Screening EHS Learning Objectives: Understand the feasibility of establishing hearing screening protocols within Early Head Start programs in a way that is sustainable over the long-term. Abstract: This paper presents an assessment of the long-term sustainability of hearing screening protocols utilizing Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) technology within Early Head Start (EHS) Programs serving children from birth to three years old. A number of EHS Programs in Oregon, Utah, and Washington State participated in a Pilot Project initiated in 2001 that helped them to establish hearing screening protocols within their centers. In-depth interviews were held with each of the initial pilot programs to assess the long-term sustainability of their hearing screening protocols. An overwhelming majority report that they have continued screening of their enrolled children (birth to three), with the OAE technology, and continue to view their established hearing screening protocols as both viable, since 2001, and an integral part of their overall health screening practices. Presentation(s): Not Available Handouts: Not Available
SPEAKER INFORMATION
PRESENTER(S): Jan Buhrmann - ECHO Initiative Head Start      Credentials: Ph.D., Sociology; Project Coordinator for the ECHO Initiative Head Start (National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, Utah State University)      Other Affiliations: Illinois College       Jan Buhrmann serves as Project Coordinator for the ECHO Initiative Head Start (National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, Utah State University). Her areas of specialization include qualitative and quantitative research, health care, and health policy. She also serves on the faculty of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, in the Department of Sociology. William Eiserman - ECHO Initiative Head Start      Credentials: Ph.D. 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. 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.   AUTHOR(S): Jan Buhrmann - ECHO Initiative Head Start      Credentials: Ph.D., Sociology; Project Coordinator for the ECHO Initiative Head Start (National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, Utah State University)      Other Affiliations: Illinois College       BIO: Jan Buhrmann serves as Project Coordinator for the ECHO Initiative Head Start (National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, Utah State University). Her areas of specialization include qualitative and quantitative research, health care, and health policy. She also serves on the faculty of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, in the Department of Sociology. William Eiserman - ECHO Initiative Head Start      Credentials: Ph.D. 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.       BIO: 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.