2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/06/2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Creating an Online Educational Module for Medical Home Providers on Caring for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: An Update | DECC 203/204
Creating an Online Educational Module for Medical Home Providers on Caring for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: An Update
In this session, we will share updates on a project presented at the EHDI 2022 conference aimed at improving medical provider knowledge in caring for children who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing. We created an online module using the peer-reviewed medical education platform OPENPediatrics. Content was developed by an interdisciplinary team of stakeholders representing developmental behavioral pediatrics, primary care, neonatology, public health, audiology, speech language pathology, early intervention, parent, family and Deaf advocate perspectives. All materials were carefully reviewed in multiple stages and crafted to ensure diverse representation of ideas and accuracy across specialty related themes. Topics include a discussion of the experiences of individuals with hearing differences, the physiology and epidemiology of childhood hearing differences, the process for hearing screening and diagnosis, initial management after a new diagnosis, the importance of accessible language, interventions aimed at providing language access, and the role of the medical home. The module was piloted across a single pediatric hospital over a 3-month period. Participants were given Continuing Medical Education credit for their participation in pre- and post-intervention surveys that assessed baseline demographics and knowledge, response to materials, and achievement of learning objectives. Semi-structured follow up interviews will be conducted at 6-months post-intervention with a subset of participants to qualitatively assess retention of learned materials and impact on clinical care. Data collected from this pilot phase will be used to inform any necessary revisions and future use of the module as a targeted intervention for medical home providers aimed at improving time to diagnosis of hearing differences and enrollment in early intervention. This presentation will share the results of our pilot study and outline the process we took in developing and implementing this educational intervention so audience members may apply lessons learned to designing and implementing their own EHDI related educational interventions.
- Participants will be able to describe strategies for developing interdisciplinary educational interventions
- Participants will be able to apply knowledge gained about assessment of educational interventions to their own work
- Participants will be able to identify opportunities for cross state EHDI program collaboration in generating and publicizing educational materials
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Presenters/Authors
Arielle Spellun
(), Division of Developmental Medicine, Arielle.Spellun@childrens.harvard.edu;
Arielle Spellun is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician fellow at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, MA. She is from Warwick, RI and went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA for her undergraduate degree in Biology where she also studied ASL and Deaf Studies. She attended medical school at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She hopes to practice developmental and behavioral pediatrics and work as a medical home provider for children who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing as well as children with special health care needs and medical complexity.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Consulting fee,Grants for Independent contractor from Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program of MA.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Jennifer Fleming
(), MA DPH, jennifer.fleming@state.ma.us;
Jennifer Fleming is the special projects coordinator for the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program. In her former career, she was an engineer working in the medical device industry. She now has two children including a 13-year-old son who is deaf. Her new passion is to serve and support deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. She is a member of the state's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee. She recently completed her fellowship with the Shriver Center’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Disabilities Program (LEND) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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Sarah Stone
(), MA Dept. of Public Health, sarah.stone@state.ma.us;
Sarah Stone is the Director of the Massachusetts Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program. She has a hearing loss and has been with the program for over 20 years. She has developed programming for families, including social and educational events. She is a member of the state's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Jane Stewart
(), BIDMC, jstewart@bidmc.harvard.edu;
Jane Stewart, M.D. is the MA AAP EHDI Chapter Champion. She has been an integral, founding member of the MA EHDI program and has served as a Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee member for many years. She continues to strive to optimize early access to communication for children with reduced hearing. Her publication “Hearing Loss in Pediatrics: What the Medical Home Needs to Know” as authored with colleague Jennifer Bentley, AuD. is referenced below. 1
1 Stewart J, Bentley J. Hearing Loss in Pediatrics: What the Medical Home Needs to Know. Pediatr Clin N Am 66(2019)425-436.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.