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Title: 'EHDI-PALS: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention- Pediatric Audiology Links to Services' Track: 1-EHDI Program Enhancement Keyword(s): web-based tool, audiology facility, facility survey, EHDI-PALS Learning Objectives: 1) Understand the scope of the national pediatic audiology facility survey 2) Understand the preliminary facility data collected during the pilot phase of the project 3) Understand the different tools made avaialbe for providers, parents and EHDI coordinators in the EHDI-PALS website Abstract: EHDI-PALS: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention- Pediatric Audiology Links to Services Track: EHDI program enhancement (1) and Family Perspectives and Support (6) Authors: Winnie Chung1, Craig Mason2, Brandt Culpepper3, Anne Oyler4, Robert Fifer5, Jack Roush6, Karen Munoz7, Michelle King8, Tammy O’Hallearn9 Affiliations: 1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia 2) Program consultant, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, University of Maine, Maine 3) Northside Hospital, Georgia 4) American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Maryland 5) University of Miami, Florida 6) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 7) Utah State University, Utah 8) EHDI program, Kentucky 9) EHDI Program, Iowa Presenter: Winnie Chung, Craig Mason The provision of infant and pediatric audiology services for diagnosis and intervention requires specialized knowledge, skills, and equipment. A widespread demand for these specialized services has rapidly emerged as a result of newborn hearing screening becoming a standard of care over a short period of time. Parents, physicians, EHDI coordinators, and other EHDI stakeholders have encountered difficulty identifying audiology facilities with the expertise and equipment to meet the needs of infants who fail their newborn hearing screening. To address this problem, the EHDI-PALS (EHDI-Pediatric Audiology Links to Services) workgroup, with representation from ASHA, AAA, JCIH, NCHAM, HRSA and CDC has been meeting for over a year to develop a web-based system to facilitate the identification of the pediatric testing capabilities of audiology facilities across the United States. In this session we will describe the facility survey we have constructed, the clinic profile we have gathered during the pilot phase, the construction of the algorithm to auto-group clinics into like categories, the construction of the EHDI-PALS web-site and the migration of the survey and facility database to the website. Contact Information: Winnie Chung, wchung@cdc.gov, 404-498-6744 Presentation: This presentation has not yet been uploaded or the speaker has opted not to make the presentation available online. Handouts: Handout is not Available
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PRESENTER(S): Winnie Chung - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention      Credentials: Au.D       Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team. Craig Mason - University of Maine      Credentials: Ph.D       Craig Mason, Ph.D. is a Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods at the University of Maine. He received his PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Washington and his interests include informatics, newborn hearing loss, and quantitative methods. Dr. Mason has been PI or Co-PI on numerous grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education. In addition, he has published, presented, and taught on multivariate analysis, multi-level modeling, epidemiological analysis, structural equation modeling, and growth modeling. He has been invited to present on methodology and informatics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and other national organizations. Brandt Culpepper - Northside Hospital      Credentials: ASHA-CCC-A; AAA- FAAA; Ph.D.       Brandt Culpepper is a pediatric audiologist at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA. She is working with the EHDI-PALs group to develop a national directory of pediatric audiology services. She is also serving on ASHA's Evidence-Based Systematic Review Committee on Hearing Screening. Northside Hospital has the nation's highest annual birth rate and serves as a regional referral source for infant hearing screening and assessment. Anne Oyler - ASHA      Credentials: AuD, CCC-A       Anne L. Oyler, AuD, CCC-A is an Associate Director of Audiology Professional Practices at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In this position, she is responsible for representing and serving ASHA’s audiology and speech-language pathology members through a variety of professional activities. Her primary areas of expertise include pediatric and educational audiology. Over the past 28 years, Dr. Oyler has held clinical, academic and research positions. For eight of those years (1999-2007), she served as a consultant to the EHDI program in the state of Mississippi where she participated in the areas of program development and professional and family education. Robert Fifer - University of Miami      Credentials: Ph.D.       Robert C. Fifer, is the Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Deaf Education. His M.A. is from Central Michigan University in Audiology, and his Ph.D. is from Baylor College of Medicine in Audiology and Bioacoustics. Dr. Fifer’s clinical and research interests focus on the areas of auditory evoked potentials, central auditory processing, early detection of hearing loss in children, and auditory anatomy and physiology. He is a Past-President of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a member of ASHA’s Health Care Economics Committee, and the ASHA representative to the American Medical Association’s Health Care Professions Advisory Committee for the Relative Value Utilization Committee in addition to being ASHA’s representative to the AMA’s Practice Expense Advisory Committee. Tammy O'Hallearn - EHDI Program, Iowa      Credentials: B.A       Tammy O’Hallearn, BA, is the EHDI coordinator for Iowa. Besides ensuring universal hearing screening and prompt follow up services is available to all newborns in Iowa, she also has special interests in Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health and Family Support issues. She is actively involved in various advisory committees in the state of Iowa. Tammy received a Link Associates Dorothy Schwartz Award in 1993 and ISHA Outstanding Service Award in 2009.   AUTHOR(S): Michelle King - Audiologist      Credentials: Au.D., CCC-A      Other Affiliations: JCIH; DSHPSHWAL AAA; KAA; ASHA, KSHA; KY chapter of Hands & Voices       BIO: Michelle King has her doctoral degree in audiology and 30+ years of experience providing diagnostic and habilitative audiologic services for infants and the pediatric populations. She led the planning, developing and implementing of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in KY and the advancement of programming to encompass Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI)and its 1-3-6 goals. She was the business lead in the development of the web-based data programming KY CHILD which supports the capture, surveillance and tracking for EHDI from birthing hospitals and diagnostic audiologists in KY. She has been a member of the Directors of Speech and Hearing Programs in State Health and Welfare Agencies (DSHPSHWA) since 1987 serving in a variety of offices on the Executive Board and served as their representative on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing. Winnie Chung - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention      Credentials: Au.D       BIO: Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team. Jackson Roush - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill      Credentials: PhD, CCCA      Other Affiliations: AAA, ASHA, AGB, AAS       BIO: Dr. Roush is Professor and Director of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. He also serves as Director of the North Carolina LEND program and is co-chair of the NC EHDI Advisory Board. Karen Munoz - Utah State University      Credentials: Associate Professor      Other Affiliations: NCHAM       BIO: Karen Muñoz is an associate professor of audiology at Utah State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders and associate director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management. Her research focus is in the area of childhood hearing loss.