19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
3/10/2020 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Expanding the Focus of EHDI to Include Children Up to Three Years of Age: Building State and Community-level Partnerships | Chouteau B
Expanding the Focus of EHDI to Include Children Up to Three Years of Age: Building State and Community-level Partnerships
The Reauthorization of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Act of 2017 includes an expanded focus on identifying children who are deaf or hard of hearing up to three years age. During the next four years, state EHDI’s are being expected to identify and implement strategies for expanding their capacity to support hearing screening in young children up to three years of age. This represents an opportunity for EHDI systems to coordinate efforts, share resources, and work together with Head Start State Collaboration Offices, Part C programs and individual state-based early care and education providers to expand evidence-based hearing screening practices to a broader population of 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 ( 2 - 3 in 1000), but what about the other half who experience late onset or progressive loss or whose congenital hearing loss was not identified at birth? Participants in this session will learn how to expand 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) 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 rationale for screening children up to three years of age.
- Participants will learn how to identify existing state programs who already are committed to hearing screening with young children.
- Participants will learn how they can provide technical assistance to support evidence-based hearing screening practices for children up to three years of age in their states.
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Presenters/Authors
William Eiserman
(), 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
(), 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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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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