2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
2/28/2017 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 100 Babies Project: Identifying Outcome Barriers for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Georgia | Hanover D
100 Babies Project: Identifying Outcome Barriers for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Georgia
Studies show that deaf and hard of hearing children who receive early intervention by six months of age and have access to communication can attain positive speech and language development and consequently equitable strides in education. (Moeller, 2000) While Georgia established an early hearing detection and intervention program in 2001, Georgia's deaf and hard of hearing children often perform worse on standardized reading assessments than their hearing peers. The Department of Public (DPH) suspects that not all children with hearing impairment, who have access and are enrolled in early intervention, have overcome all the barriers to access positive language development. DPH will identify and explore the factors that influence language development on children identified with hearing loss through newborn screening, including maternal and social factors, age of intervention, intensity of intervention and home language. Data sets from vital records, newborn screening, and intervention will be linked to determine if co-founding factors that influence language development significantly impact early intervention outcomes in a subset of hearing impaired diagnosed children with a birth date beginning in January 1, 2014. Identifying a relationship between maternal factors, such as level of education and age, child's insurance, home language, and language outcomes will identify areas or target groups requiring additional resources to reduce any possible disparities in outcomes. Although research supports early intervention by six months of age to attain improved development outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing children, vulnerable populations of children may be at greater risk for not meeting language outcomes in-spite early intervention. Programmatic resources can be used to improve outcomes in these populations to ensure that they do not fall behind their hearing peers.
- Identify three factors that influence language development of children identified with hearing loss through newborn screening.
- Determine which co-founding factors that influence language development may significantly impact early intervention outcomes among children diagnosed with hearing impairment.
- Identify relationships of factors that point to groups that may require additional resources in order to reduce disparities in outcomes
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Kelly Dundon
(), Gentech associates, kdundon@gentechassociates.com;
Kelly Dundon is a contractor with the CDC EHDI program. Prior to the CDC, Kelly was the state EHDI Coordinator for Georgia and was with the Georgia Department of Public Health for over 6 years. While at the Georgia Department of Public Health, Kelly oversaw initiatives that reduced Georgia’s loss to follow up rate in half and improved timeliness of diagnosis of infants not passing their newborn hearing screen. She also planned, executed, and oversaw a long term follow up study on children identified through EHDI. Kelly holds her Doctorate in Audiology and Masters in Public Health. Additionally, she is a board member of Georgia’s Hands & Voices Chapter and works as a pediatric audiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Michael Lo
(), Georgia Department of Public Health, michael.lo@dph.ga.gov;
Michael Lo is the EHDI Program Evaluator/Data Manager at the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH). Prior to joining GDPH, he was an Injury Epidemiologist at the Florida Department of Health and as a contractor at the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, where he collaborated with research audiologists on a retrospective cohort study of hearing loss and tinnitus in military personnel with deployment-related mild traumatic brain injury. He received a B.A. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of South Florida.
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