15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/01/2010 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Topical Session 2 | Teylers | 8 - EHDI Workforce Issues
The EHDI Index: An Introduction to Assessing Your EHDI System and Planning for Improvement
EHDI systems are complex and cross agency and community resource boundaries. What will actually increase the QUALITY of timely hearing loss detection, diagnosis, family-to-family support and early intervention services? Many procedures and activities can be available to EHDI professionals but the quality of EHDI systems may still be problematic or very slow to improve. An EHDI Index has been developed to help state and/or local community teams to assess the quality of EHDI system components and provide support to the improvement planning. The EHDI Index has identified the major drivers of change within EHDI systems as Timely Audiology Services, Activated Families, and Collaborative Community Support. Many of the processes and components that contribute to each of these drivers within quality EHDI systems are identified within a self assessment instrument. Teams can modify the self assessment so that it will be highly applicable to conditions that exist in their state/community. Once self assessment has been completed the EHDI Index guides teams on how to prioritize their areas of greatest need. Finally extensive information is provided on each of the identified EHDI processes to provide a continuum of examples that can assist team discussion in planning how quality improvements can be made to their EHDI processes. Time for discussion will be provided at the end of the presentation so that participants can provide feedback and suggested changes to this new tool.
- 1. The participant will be able to define quality improvement 2. The participant will be able to recognize the primary and secondary drivers of change in EHDI systems 3. The partcipant will be able to describe the EHDI Index self assessment process 4. The participant will be able to describe the prioritization or processes to focus on and how a team can generate ideas for activities or processes to try as activities toward system improvement.
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Karen Anderson
(), Mpls School Dist, karenlanderson@earthlink.net;
Karen's done a lot of stuff!
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Kathy Anderson
(Co-Presenter), Minnesota Department of Education, kathy.a.anderson@state.mn.us;
Kathy Anderson is an educator, having worked in the public school system for 30 years, first in Iowa, and for most of her career in Minnesota with Intermediate District 287 Deaf, Hard of Hearing Program/Early Childhood Services. She currently serves as the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Education, working together with a team of state agency professionals to provide guidance, support and resources to professionals serving young children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and their families. Kathy is a member of the Minnesota Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee and Past-President of the Minnesota Chapter of Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf.
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