EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
3/04/2021 | 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM | Tracking Early Intervention Outcomes at the Program, State, and National Levels | Topical Breakout
Tracking Early Intervention Outcomes at the Program, State, and National Levels
The Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) is a new CDC-funded technical assistance center that supports early intervention programs in gathering, analyzing, and using intervention and developmental outcome data from children who are deaf or hard of hearing. ODDACE will assist early intervention programs in using assessment results to objectively track a child’s progress over time, as well as practice a data-driven approach to establishing goals and making educational programming decisions.
Partnering with ODDACE provides an opportunity to establish a program-wide accountability system. ODDACE will create a database of assessment results for each participating early intervention program and will provide reports summarizing each program’s outcomes with comparisons to the national averages. Program-wide accountability data can be used to evaluate an early intervention program’s strengths and challenges, guide program development, and inform professional preparation needs.
By collaborating with ODDACE, early intervention programs and other partners can be part of a larger effort to examine language outcomes at the national level. This allows for characterization of language strengths and weaknesses of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and identification of factors (including intervention program characteristics) that are predictive of more successful language outcomes.
This presentation will include a description of ODDACE, including membership and partnership information. Benefits and obstacles to collecting program-wide outcome data will be discussed based on information obtained from structured individual interviews with program directors and early interventionists currently participating in ODDACE.
- Explain the purpose of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) and how to join as a strategic partner
- List the benefits associated with partnering with ODDACE
- Describe the challenges of collecting program-wide outcome data and strategies for overcoming these challenges
Presentation:
23278_13595AllisonSedey.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Allison Sedey
(), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the assessment and accountability coordinator for the Early Intervention Outreach Program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. Dr. Sedey received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied language acquisition in children who are deaf/hard of hearing as well as in children who have Down syndrome. Since that time, she has served as the project coordinator on a variety of grant-funded research projects examining predictors of developmental outcomes in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Sedey is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Eric Cahill
(), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, ECahill@cdc.gov;
Eric Cahill, MS has been with the CDC EHDI Team since 2009. As a Health Scientist, Eric provides technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigates public health related issues for the team. Before coming to CDC, Eric served in the EHDI program for the state of Kentucky. He originally trained as a clinical audiologist and has worked at Temple University Hospital, Temple University Children’s Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Boston.
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Marcus Gaffney
(), CDC, nzg9@cdc.gov;
Marcus Gaffney is a Health Scientist and serves as the lead for the CDC EHDI Team. He has over 14 years’ experience working in the area of newborn hearing screening and is responsible for overseeing a range of activities, including supporting the development of jurisdictional EHDI Information Systems, assessing progress towards national goals, providing technical assistance, and supporting research efforts. He holds a Masters of Public Health from Mercer University.
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