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ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Title: 'Pediatric Audiology Facilities: A Tool to Identify Facilities Equipped to Meet Pediatric Service Needs' Track: 2-Audiological Assessment and Intervention Audience: Primary Audience: Secondary Audience: Tertiary Audeince: Keyword(s): Diagnostic assessment, hearing technology, audiology facility Learning Objectives: Participants will understand: 1. the purpose of the web-based tool for linking parents to testing facilities equipped to meet their pediatric audiology needs; 2. the importance of having a standardized tool in place to identify pediatric audiology facilities; 3. the information needed to develop a web-based tool, and the estimated timeline for release of this resource. Abstract: The provision of infant and pediatric audiology services for diagnosis and intervention requires specialized knowledge, skills, and equipment. A widespread demand for these specialized services has rapidly emerged as a result of newborn hearing screening becoming a standard of care over a short period of time. Parents, physicians, state EHDI coordinators, and other stakeholders in the EHDI process have encountered difficulty identifying audiology facilities equipped with the expertise and equipment to meet the needs of infants who fail their newborn hearing screening. This challenge creates delays in the diagnostic and intervention process, negatively impacting child outcomes. To address this problem, a working group, comprised of pediatric audiologists, with representation from ASHA, AAA, JCIH, NCHAM, and the CDC has been meeting to develop a web-based system to facilitate the identification of the testing capabilities of pediatric audiology facilities across the United States. During this session an overview of the project and timeline for development will be presented followed by round table discussions facilitated by members of the working group, to answer questions and seek stakeholder input related to the development of this web-based tool. Handouts: Handout is not Available
SPEAKER INFORMATION
PRESENTER(S): Jackson Roush - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill      Credentials: PhD, CCCA      Other Affiliations: AAA, ASHA, AGB, AAS       Dr. Roush is Professor and Director of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. He also serves as Director of the North Carolina LEND program and is co-chair of the NC EHDI Advisory Board. Karen Munoz - Utah State University      Credentials: Associate Professor      Other Affiliations: NCHAM       Karen Muñoz is an associate professor of audiology at Utah State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders and associate director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management. Her research focus is in the area of childhood hearing loss. Winnie Chung - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention      Credentials: Au.D       Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team. Robert Fifer - University of Miami      Credentials: Ph.D.       Robert C. Fifer, is the Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Deaf Education. His M.A. is from Central Michigan University in Audiology, and his Ph.D. is from Baylor College of Medicine in Audiology and Bioacoustics. Dr. Fifer’s clinical and research interests focus on the areas of auditory evoked potentials, central auditory processing, early detection of hearing loss in children, and auditory anatomy and physiology. He is a Past-President of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a member of ASHA’s Health Care Economics Committee, and the ASHA representative to the American Medical Association’s Health Care Professions Advisory Committee for the Relative Value Utilization Committee in addition to being ASHA’s representative to the AMA’s Practice Expense Advisory Committee. Brandt Culpepper, PhD - Northside Hospital      Credentials: PhD       Brandt Culpepper is a pediatric audiologist at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA, where she is responsible for hearing screening and follow up in one of the nation’s largest birthing hospitals. She has served on numerous working groups and task forces related to pediatric audiology including the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing. Alan Diefendorf, PhD - Indiana University Medical Center      Credentials: PhD       Alan Diefendorf is Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, IN. He has published extensively on topics related to hearing in children and is former chair of the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing.   AUTHOR(S):