2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/06/2023 | 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | EHDI Expansion to Include Screening Children up to Three Years of Age: An Environmental Scan | DECC 200
EHDI Expansion to Include Screening Children up to Three Years of Age: An Environmental Scan
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 of age. An environmental scan of community-based early childhood screening up to the age of 3 was completed to guide EHDI programs through the planning process of developing strategies for expansion. Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, this environmental scan focused on early childhood hearing screening research, effective program strategies, and guidelines from the field including:
• Evidence-based and evidence-informed approaches to hearing screening, including periodicity schedules, protocols, guidelines, and regulations;
• Recommended locations to do screening, including policies and practices of potential partners. Collaboration and referral mechanisms, including data sharing agreements, data systems, reporting by audiologists, and privacy issue; and,
• Potential roles for EHDI programs, including strategies, stakeholders, educational methods, and progress.
Evidence-based and evidence-informed material for the environmental scan was obtained from a variety of sources and information-gathering experiences.
This presentation will provide an overview of how the results of the environmental scan can serve as a practical tool for planning the expansion of EHDI systems to increase the numbers of children who are identified as deaf or hard of hearing up to three years of age. The presentation will overview a range of activities that EHDI programs can incorporate into their future activities that can:
• increase awareness of the need for monitoring hearing status of children throughout early childhood;
• introduce community-based partners to evidence-based hearing screening practices they may consider adopting as a part of the services they provide;
• facilitate access to quality training on evidence-based hearing screening practices for young children; and,
• establish collaborations including exchanges of data and other information so that identified children readily access the services and resources they need.
- After attending this presentation participants will be able to identify where to locate the comprehensive environmental scan on screening children up to three years of age, useful to the expansion of EHDI.
- After attending this presentation participants will be able to identify key factors of evidence-based hearing screening for children up to three years of age including recommended methods, screening and follow-up protocols, and community-based partners.
- After attending this presentation participants will be able to describe a range of activities in which a state EHDI system can be engaged to start to expand the reach of EHDI to include the identification of children up to three years of age.
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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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