18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
3/10/2015 | 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Building a Screening Infrastructure for Children's Success (BASICS) Phase II | Stopher | 1
Building a Screening Infrastructure for Children's Success (BASICS) Phase II
Identifying late onset, progressive losses and those missed by newborn screening is an important challenge in Early Childhood. Estimates that prevalence of hearing loss significantly increases between birth and school age make screening during this time critical to early identification. Hearing screening experience beyond the newborn period, 6 months-5 years, varies for most children. Most children do not receive a hearing screening beyond the newborn screen until they enter kindergarten unless they are enrolled in a program that mandates screening. Screening programs are limited to Early Head Start and/or Head Start, some home visiting program PAT), access to a Medical Home with screening equipment, or possibly an Early Intervention program that provides screening, or screening by Child Find. All of these programs are limited to a small segment of the population. The BASICS program is a new model of providing hearing screening in early childhood centers as well as partnering with community providers to do population based screenings. The BASICS program has performed more than 20,000 vision and hearing screens on children age six months through five years since 2010. This presentation will describe the program, present statistical analysis of the results and successes and challenges in this model.
- identify key characteristics of the BASICS program
- identify long term and short term goals of the BASICS program
- evaluate the program effectiveness through statistical analysis
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Presenters/Authors
Melissa Selbst
(Primary Presenter), The EAR Foundation of Arizona, melissa@earfoundationaz.com;
Executive Director, 2006-present
EAR Foundation of Arizona
Staff and volunteer management, Fundraising, Community Relations, Board Management and Development
Financial Management, Program Management Professional Education and Training
Director of Program Services and Public Affairs, 1996 – 2006
March of Dimes Arizona Chapter, Phoenix, Arizona
Program management and oversight for public health education, professional health education,
advocacy and grants management for the Arizona Chapter.
Consultant, Creative Management Learning Solutions, L.L.C., 1996-current
Developed a Managed Care Course Curriculum and course instruction on various health topics. Participated in the development, implementation and evaluation of a HRSA grant. Conducted patient chart audits. Developed patient education materials for patient newsletters both Medicaid and Medicare populations. Develop and market health education tools and trainings.
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Randi Winston-Gerson
(Co-Presenter), NCHAM, A.T. Still University, The EAR Foundation of Arizona, randiwinston@infanthearing.org;
Randi consults on a variety of EHDI related projects and serves as adjunct assistant professor at A.T. Still University. Prior to that she worked as a consulting audiologist for The EAR Foundation of Arizona and Arizona's EHDI Program since 1998. Her role included the implementation of newborn hearing and early childhood screening programs with an emphasis on program quality, systems development and best practices. During that time she served on NCHAM’s Technical Assistance Network, assisting states in Region X. Randi maintains her role as lead audiologist on the Newborn Hearing Screening Training Curriculum (NHSTC) project and has co-authored several research articles involving newborn and early childhood screening.
Randi holds doctorate of audiology, is state licensed in Arizona and a member of AAA, ASHA and the ArSHA. She also serves as director of the Arizona Special Olympics Healthy Hearing Program.
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Lylis Olsen
(Co-Presenter,POC), The EAR Foundation of Arizona, lylisolsen@msn.com;
Lylis Olsen is the State EHDI Coordinator in Arizona. She is a pediatric audiologist with 35years of experience. She also has a Master's degree in Public Health and has 28 years experience in state newborn hearing screening programs. She works with the EAR Foundation of Arizona on education, advocacy and promoting services for families and their children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Lylis also manages the HEAR for Kids, a unique program that serves as a safety net for children in need of loaner cochlear implants or hearing aids, permanent hearing aids or access to all levels of diagnostic audiology services.
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Sherry Fronterhouse
(Author), The EAR Foundation of Arizona, sherry@earfoundationaz.com;
For the last 18 months, Sherry Fronterhouse has worked as the Follow-up/Screening Coordinator for The Ear Foundation of Arizona’s BASICS program. Sherry has been involved in the planning and coordination of over 70 screening sites in central Phoenix and has helped screen thousands of PreK children using OAE and Puretone methodology. Her work in the BASICS program also involves follow-up with families and medical providers for hearing refers. Since joining the BASICS program, Sherry has completed T3-Train the Trainer OAE Birth-3 training and is now training other hearing screeners.
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