2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
THE ANTONIA BRANCIA MAXON AWARD FOR EHDI EXCELLENCE
Jackson Roush
We are nominating Jackson Roush for the 2022 Antonia Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence. Jack has dedicated his (40+ year) career to improving the audiologic care for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), including those with co-occuring conditions. He has dedicated his career at the state and national levels to professional service related to newborn hearing screening, diagnosis, and intervention. Jack has consistently been a "systems developer", demonstrating a persistent effort to improving outcomes for children who are DHH and their families.
At the state level, Jack has been actively and intimately involved in universal newborn hearing screening in North Carolina since its inception. He has served on the North Carolina Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Advisory Committee since its formation in the year 2000, serving two terms as chair. At the national level, Jack served on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH) and a steering committee for a CDC project focused on designing web-based resources for families and service providers seeking pediatric audiology services. Jack has written and/or edited several books and book chapters related to childhood hearing loss and family-centered assessment and intervention. Additionally, he has a long list of journal articles, papers, and professional presentations in the area of pediatric audiology, newborn hearing screening and follow-up, developmental disabilities, and family-centered care and intervention.
Jack's passion for training young pediatric audiology professionals will be felt for decades to come. His dedication to his students' success is exceptional. As he has approached his "final years in academia", he has focused less on his own research and more on extramurally funded training and leadership grants which provide opportunities to facilitate scholarship and research for his graduate students. Over the past 10 years, he has mentored 13 scholarly projects involving 32 AuD trainees involving a variety of topics related to hearing loss in infants and young children. All 13 were presented at national conferences, including two that received first place awards at national EHDI Conferences.
The following represent a few of Jack's many accomplishments and contributions to the EHDI community:
- Fellow, American Speech Hearing Language Association
- Member, Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH)
- Fellow, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
- Chair, North Carolina EHDI Advisory Committee
- Presidential Award, American Academy of Audiology
- Impact Award, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities
- Principal Investigator, North Carolina LEND
- Established CIDD's Hearing and Development Clinic which provides interdisciplinary assessments for children who are DHH with autism or other co-occurring conditions
- Director, Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ad hoc reviewer: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology; Ear and Hearing; Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention; American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Jack has been, and continues to be, a "systems developer". His belief in the amazing capabilities of children who are DHH, the professionals that serve them, and the families that walk along the journey of life beside them is tremendous. He exemplifies the Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence.