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ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Title: 'Be a Part of the ECHO: Developing Periodic Early Childhood Hearing Screening Practices in Settings Where it can Work' Track: - Keyword(s): Early Childhood Screening Learning Objectives: Identify various contextual conditions that facilitate periodic early childhood hearing screening. Identify settings where periodic early childhood screening already is occurring. Access newly developed online resources to support the development of periodic early childhood hearing screening practices in a variety of settings. Abstract: The ECHO Initiative serves as the National Resource Center on Early Hearing and Detection and Intervention for Early Head Start programs and other early childhood providers. Since 2001, the ECHO Initiative has been providing training and technical assistance to promote the development, implementation and improvement of periodic OAE hearing screening and follow-up for children birth to three years of age. With this support, hundreds of early childhood education and health care providers across the U.S. have been able to initiate and maintain successful hearing screening programs. During the past year, the ECHO Initiative has launched new web-based instructional modules and web-based trainings to a nationwide audience while simultaneously targeting outreach training and technical assistance to collaborators in 14 states. Those collaborating include EHDI coordinators, associated audiologists and others committed to periodic early childhood hearing screening. The focus of this pre-session will be to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of: The importance of periodic early childhood hearing screening and its connection to core EHDI goals and objectives. Settings where periodic early childhood hearing screening is already occurring and where it may be successfully initiated. Web-based resources to support hearing screening planning, training, and implementation. Issues that must be addressed as a part of establishing periodic screening programs including: • Planning (introductory information, equipment selection, protocol considerations, screener selection, training preparation). • Training and Technical Assistance (options for providing training using web-based instructional and implementation resources). • Follow-up and EHDI Collaboration (tracking and follow-up strategies and ways for sharing data between periodic early childhood screening and EHDI programs). • Outcomes resulting from relationships between state EHDI programs and early childhood periodic screening programs, how efforts are unfolding in specific states and lessons learned along the way. Presentation: This presentation has not yet been uploaded or the speaker has opted not to make the presentation available online. Handouts: Handout is not Available
PRESENTER(S) / AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION
William Eiserman - Primary Presenter ECHO Initiative Head Start      Credentials: Ph.D. 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. 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.       ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exist. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist. Jeff Hoffman - Co-Presenter NCHAM      Credentials: MS, CCC-A      Other Affiliations: NCHAM, Utah State University       Jeff Hoffman is the Outreach Coordinator for the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative at NCHAM, Utah State University. Jeff has many years of experience serving as a state EHDI coordinator and working within Head Start. As an audiologist, Jeff's combined experience affords him to be a valuable resource to state EHDI programs and Head Start grantees as they build collaborations to support quality hearing screening and follow-up practices.       ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - No relevant financial relationship exist. Nonfinancial - No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist. Terry Foust - Co-Presenter Intermountain Healthcare      Credentials: Senior Healthcare Executive, Intermountain Health Care Au.D., Audiologist SLP - Speech-:Language Pathologist      Other Affiliations: National Center for Hearing Assessment an Management - Consultant       Terry Foust, AuD., has implemented and directed large newborn hearing screening programs in Utah and Idaho. He has provided consultation services to the Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the HRSA Office of Performance Review (OPR), the Medicaid and Medicare Policy Research Center and the NCHAM. He is a National Technical Assistance Network audiologist for NCHAM providing support to state EHDI programs and the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach program. International experience includes work and consultation in Accra (Ghana Africa), Costa Rica, Cairo Egypt, and most recently in Mumbai India. Professional honors include being the first recipient of the newly established Mary J. Webster Distinguished Service Award from the Utah Speech-Language and Hearing Association, recognition by Utah Business Magazine as the 2007 Healthcare Hero of the year as an administrator, the 2006 recipient of the national Larry H. Mauldin award for excellence in audiology education and other honors.       ASHA DISCLOSURE: Financial - Nonfinancial -