2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 10:35 AM - 11:00 AM | Early Intervention Program Accountability: Assessing Developmental Outcomes at the Individual Child and Program Levels | Room 4
Early Intervention Program Accountability: Assessing Developmental Outcomes at the Individual Child and Program Levels
A critical component of early intervention program accountability is the collection of a standard set of child outcome measures. We will describe a comprehensive, child-level assessment battery that 1) is appropriate for both children who use spoken language and those who use sign language, 2) maximizes input from families, 3) focuses on a wide variety of language skills as well as other developmental domains, and 4) objectively identifies children falling below, within, or above the expected range for their age level.
We also will share information about the opportunity to establish a robust, program-wide accountability plan by partnering with the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) – a CDC-supported technical assistance center that supports early intervention programs in gathering, analyzing, and using developmental outcome data at both the individual child/family level and the program level The Center assists interventionists in using assessment results to objectively track a child’s progress over time, as well as practice a data-driven approach to establishing goals and making educational programming decisions. In addition, the Center will create a database of assessment results for each participating program and will provide reports summarizing the program’s outcomes with comparisons to the national averages. This program-wide accountability data can be used to evaluate an intervention program’s strengths and challenges, guide program development, and inform professional preparation needs.
- Describe an assessment battery that can be used to monitor language and other developmental progress over time across the birth to 3-year period
- Explain the role of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) in establishing a program-wide accountability plan and how to join as a strategic partner
- List child-level and program-level benefits associated with partnering with ODDACE
Presentation:
3353554_15066AllisonSedey.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Allison Sedey
(Primary Presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the assessment and accountability coordinator for the Early Intervention Outreach Program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. Dr. Sedey received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied language acquisition in children who are deaf/hard of hearing as well as in children who have Down syndrome. Since that time, she has served as the project coordinator on a variety of grant-funded research projects examining predictors of developmental outcomes in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Sedey is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Grants for Employment from Centers for Disease Control.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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Financial relationship with University of Colorado-Boulder.
Nature: Receives a salary from a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control supporting the collection of language outcomes.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Eric Cahill
(Co-Presenter), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, ECahill@cdc.gov;
Eric Cahill, MS has been with the CDC EHDI Team since 2009. As a Health Scientist, Eric provides technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigates public health related issues for the team. Before coming to CDC, Eric served in the EHDI program for the state of Kentucky. He originally trained as a clinical audiologist and has worked at Temple University Hospital, Temple University Children’s Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Boston.
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