2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
10/24/2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | MEET THE EXPERTS: Newborn Hearing Screening | BGPOP Building 402/403/404
MEET THE EXPERTS: Newborn Hearing Screening
Hearing loss being a silent disability particularly in infants and young children shows how necessary pediatric hearing screening is. With the outcome of audiologic management being highly dependent on early detection and identification, infant and pediatric hearing screening is a valuable approach for infants and children to overcome hearing disability. This opportunity to Meet the Experts in Infant and Hearing Screening will allow participants to informally ask questions about hearing screening protocols, tools and measures for infants and young children.
- Identify and describe the rationale of the different screening tools for hearing loss in infants, toddlers, young children, and children in school
- Understand the design and implementation of an assessment plan for infants and young children
- Analyze results and develop an empirical and expert opinion based management
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Presenters/Authors
Jean Johnson
(), University of Hawaii, jeanj@hawaii.edu;
Dr. Jean Johnson has worked in the Pacific providing audiological services for more than four decades. She has been involved in newborn hearing screening since its earliest beginnings. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for EHDI programs in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Territory of American Samoa. In 2013 she received the Antonia Braxon Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence.
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Angie Mister
(), CNMI Public School System , angie.mister@gmail.com;
Angie Mister, Au.D CCC-A has been an audiologist with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Public School System for 21 years. Her position includes the coordination of audiological screenings, comprehensive hearing evaluations, fitting and management of hearing aids as well as providing support services to students with hearing loss birth-to- twenty-one. Dr. Mister assists educational teams in program placement decisions and participates in multidisciplinary team meetings. She counsels families, students and school personnel about the effects of hearing loss, both within and outside the classroom environment. In addition to this work, Dr. Mister has been instrumental in the coordination of the CNMI Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program. She is the Pacific (Region IXa) Network Consultant and Quality Improvement Advisor under the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM).
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Linda Hood
(), Vanderbilt University, linda.j.hood@vanderbilt.edu;
Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., is a Professor and Hearing Scientist in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and Associate Director for Research at the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at Vanderbilt University. She is an Honorary Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Hood received her master's degree in Audiology from Kent State University and Ph.D. in Hearing Science from the University of Maryland. She completed an NIH post?doctoral fellowship and was a faculty member at the Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, in New Orleans, Louisiana for 25 years. Dr. Hood’s research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on auditory physiology, characterizing auditory function in pre-mature infants, auditory neuropathy/dys?synchrony, hereditary hearing loss, auditory function across the lifespan, and efferent auditory function. In addition to research and teaching, Dr. Hood participates in review and working groups of the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH-NIDCD) and is a panelist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She is a Past President of the American Academy of Audiology, Past President of the American Auditory Society and currently she is the President of the International Society of Audiology.
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