15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
| - | 10 - Policy, Advocacy and Legislative Issues
Home Visiting Programs for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: A Systematic Review
Background: A systematic literature review was conducted to examine (a) evidence supporting home visiting programs as identified by Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) program and (b) evidence supporting home visiting programs for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families.
Method: We employed the following five steps in this study:
1. Developed a question specific to specific to children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their parents using the PICO framework
2. Conducted a systematic literature search to identify relevant studies
3. Examined titles and abstracts to eliminate irrelevant studies
4. Abstracted data for evidence tables of remaining studies meeting inclusion criteria
5. Critically appraised studies by grading quality and strength of the evidence
Results: Twelve of the National Home Visiting Models identified by HomVEE addressed Child Development and School Readiness outcomes. Evidence-based home visiting programs that offer the best fit for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families (due to the target population served, target outcome domain, education required for home visitors, and curriculum) include: (a) Early Head Start Home Visiting (EHS-HV), (b) Parents as Teachers (PAT), and (c) Play and Learning Strategies (PALS). However, none of these research studies reported outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. We identified two home visiting models specific to children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families (i.e., Colorado Home Intervention Program and Project ASPIRE) as 'promising practices'.
Conclusions: Rigorous empirical evidence is limited at best, and represents an opportunity for the development of a ‘named’ home intervention model with new or existing curricula coupled with a systematic approach to collection of outcome data for the purpose of generating evidence to support and/or inform best practices.
- Understand the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) federal funding and efforts to expand and improve home visiting models that meet designated, rigorous evidence-based standards
- Recognize the National Home Visiting models identified by the Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness (HomVEE) in the Child Development and School Readiness domain
- Identify home visiting programs specific to children who are deaf and hard of hearing and their families that meet the HomeVee evidence-based criteria in the domain of Child Development and School Readiness
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Presenters/Authors
Nannette Nicholson
(Primary Presenter), UAMS/UALR, NN@uams.edu;
Nannette Nicholson, PhD is a Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She also has a clinical staff appointment at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Her primary research area is early intervention and pediatric audiology.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Patti Martin
(Co-Presenter), Arkansas Children's Hospital, martinpf@archildrens.org;
Patti Martin, Ph.D., is the Director of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH). Her areas of expertise include infant screening/assessment, family support and program development. Her efforts with infant hearing screening began with a collaboration project to investigate the efficacy of TEOAEs as a newborn screening tool in the early 1990s and continue through her work on the board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special Interest Division on Childhood Hearing Disorders and as the Family Support Consultant for NCHAM. She has chaired the Arkansas Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology, the Arkansas Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, Tracking and Intervention Boardand the Natinoal Investing in Family Support Conference for the past four years. Dr. Martin’s ongoing passion centers around how professionals can help support families in improving the outcomes of children with hearing loss.
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Receives Consulting fee for Consulting from National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Abby Hill
(Author), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, ahill4@uams.edu;
Abby Hill B.A. graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Pre-Professional Speech-Language Pathology with a concentration in Audiology. She is currently a 3rd year doctorate of audiology (Au.D.) student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. She completed a traineeship as intern in the Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (LEND) program.
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