Probes and Tips - January 2010 - Add Your Voice to the ECHO: Reach out to new programs

This newsletter provides TIPS to enhance your OAE screening and follow-up practices and PROBES about current activities so we can learn from one another's successes and challenges. Check out our website for more helpful resources: www.infanthearing.org/earlychildhood

January, 2010 issue

Tip of the Month

Add Your Voice to the ECHO: Reach Out to Newly Funded Programs

The very good news for children and families is that hundreds of brand new Early Head Start programs will be starting up in the near future. In addition, some existing programs are adding slots to serve more young children than ever before and some are converting slots from Head Start to Early Head Start. It is anticipated that in the year ahead, Early Head Start could nearly double in size!

Those involved face the challenge of learning how to most effectively screen young children for hearing loss. Fortunately, they can learn from veterans like you who have already had the experience of establishing Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) hearing screening practices in Early Head Start settings.

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Here are several ways you can help these newcomers:

1) Contact your Head Start State Collaboration Office or your Head Start Association to identify where the new programs are and to obtain contact information.

2) Phone or email to offer your assistance regarding hearing screening.

3) Share the website information at kidshearing.org

4) Review the most important elements in providing quality hearing screening to young children. This includes:

   a) Involving a local pediatric audiologist consultant (assistance may be available through the state Early Hearing and Detection program.)
   b) Selecting appropriate OAE equipment with help from the audiologist.
   c) Receiving training in OAE screening and follow-up practices.
   d) Following an appropriate screening and follow-up protocol, documenting outcomes, and tracking children who need further screening or evaluation.
   e) Monitoring screening program quality.

Keep in mind, resources for each of the above elements are found at kidshearing.org.

Probe of the Month

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The production of this newsletter was funded in part by the Administration for Children and Families, the Office of Head Start and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau under Grants 6 H61 MC 00006-02-02 and 90YD-0203/01 to the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management at Utah State University. Please select one of the following images.

Probes and Tips - January 2010 - Add Your Voice to the ECHO: Reach out to new programs

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Add Your Voice to the ECHO: Reach Out to Newly Funded Programs

Here are several ways you can help these newcomers: