18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
3/10/2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Hands & Voices Project - Baby's First Test | Nunn | 6
Hands & Voices Project - Baby's First Test
Hands & Voices announces Baby’s First Test Challenge Award through Genetic Alliance, INC.
The newborn hearing screening community is one of great innovation. In light of this tradition, Baby’s First Test through the Genetic Alliance awarded Hands & Voices headquarters with the Challenge Award. This grant opportunity was given to organizations to integrate Baby’s First Test into new or existing outreach, engagement, or education efforts. Hands & Voices worked with Baby’s First Test to disseminate 750 copies of the Hands & Voices “Loss and Found” video and informational packets to hospitals, birthing centers, prenatal classes, state EHDI Taskforces, and other relevant groups.
Hands & Voices recruited a combination of 28 H&V Chapters and interested EHDI partners from all regions of the United States to disseminate the “Loss and Found” videos and informational packets by July 31st, 2014 to 3 sites per each of the 28 states where a H&V Chapter and/or EHDI partner agreed to assist with dissemination.
This presentation will share information about the scope of the project, the resources disseminated, the types of sites who received the information, and survey data from both those who disseminated the information and those who received the information. Additional anecdotal information gained through the project that could potentially increase awareness about the importance of newborn hearing screening will also be shared.
- Participants will be able to identify resources to help educate parents of the importance for NBHS and timely follow up to a did not pass/ refer result
- Participants will be able to review results from the Baby's First Test project data
- Participants will be able to discuss opportunities to utilize trained parents in their training to professionals who conduct newborn hearing screening
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Presenters/Authors
Lisa Kovacs
(Primary Presenter,POC), Hands & Voices , lisakovacs@handsandvoices.org ;
Lisa Kovacs is the Director of Programs for Hands & Voices Headquarters and the Director of the Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center. She and her husband Brian have four young adult children including her son who is hard of hearing/deaf. Lisa was the 2019 Antonio Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence recipient. Her professional interest include; Parent Advocacy; Implementation of parent participation and engagement in systems building; Parent to Parent support; Deaf Education Reform; IDEA, ESSA, Part C and Part B Training to Parents, and Parent Leadership Training and Development.
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