2026 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 15-17, 2026 • Jacksonville, FL
3/11/2025 | 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM | Maine’s Earliest Interactions Website: Understanding and Analyzing Audiogram through an Interactive Module | 321
Maine’s Earliest Interactions Website: Understanding and Analyzing Audiogram through an Interactive Module
The audiogram is a tool that is crucial throughout the journey for a child who is deaf/hard of hearing; however, it can be tricky for professionals and parents alike to fully understand the nuances of this tool. Maine’s Earliest Interactions website, funded through the HRSA grant, aims to make resources available to both professionals and parents in support of their understanding of all aspects of hearing screening, diagnosis, and early intervention. One gap in available resources identified by our website team was a functional and interactive audiogram teaching tool. This presentation will review the interactive module, with information regarding how it is used by families and early intervention providers.
- Participants will be able to list two challenges of traditional audiograms.
- Participants will be able to describe how an interactive audiogram module benefits families.
- Participants will be able to describe how an interactive audiogram module benefits professionals.
Presentation:
3545975_18150KatherineDuncan.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Katherine Duncan
(Primary Presenter), Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, katherine.duncan@mecdhh.org;
Katherine Duncan obtained her doctorate of audiology (Au.D.) from The Ohio State University. She is currently in her eleventh year as an educational audiologist at the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Falmouth, Maine. She supports outreach programs for both the birth to five and K-12 populations. Katherine is the Audiology Consultant for the Maine Newborn Hearing Program. She is also the coordinator of the hearing assistive technology program for Child Development Services, Maine's early intervention system.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment from Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
• Receives Other financial benefit for Consulting from Maine Newborn Hearing Program.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Professional
(Audiology Consultant to the Maine Newborn Hearing Program)
relationship for Other volunteer activities.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Maine Educational Center for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing
Maine Newborn Hearing Program.
Nature: Employed by Maine Educational Center for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing
Consultant for the Maine Newborn Hearing Program; MNHP pays percentage of my salary to MECDHH.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Amy Spencer
(Co-Presenter), Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, amy.spencer@mecdhh.org;
Amy is the early intervention and family services coordinator at MECDHH/GBSD. She is a certified SLP and Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She serves on Maine’s EHDI Team as a member of the Earliest Interactions Maine/HRSA grant team under the Maine Newborn Hearing program. Additionally she is part of the Maine Interagency Coordinating Council that ensures collaboration between partners in the state serving children 0-3 and their families. As part of her Infant Toddler Family Leadership and Collaboration Certificate Program from Gallaudet, Amy began her work on the Exploring Language and Communication Opportunities process and it has continued to evolve throughout the last ten years. Amy lives in southern Maine exploring both the ocean and mountains regularly with her husband and two young daughters.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment from MECDHH.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with MECDHH.
Nature: Paid employee.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.