2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/06/2012 | 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM | A Sustainable Birth to Three Training Model Using the ECHO Initiative Training Approach | Jeffersonian/Knickerbocker | 1
A Sustainable Birth to Three Training Model Using the ECHO Initiative Training Approach
Since 1995, Arizona has mandated that those who screen school aged kids or train others to screen and/or train must go through the T3 System. T3 is Arizona’s train the trainer standardized multi module curriculum that contains content on Adult Learning. Prescreening, Pure Tone screening, Tympanometry, Otitiis Media, OAEs and Reporting. Trainers throughout the state recognize T3 as the “go to” one stop shop for childhood hearing screening training and certification.
Prior to May 2011 a module for birth to three trainers and screeners did not exist. A funding opportunity created the ability to develop an additional module to embed into the existing model. Using the T3 structure and the ECHO training materials and approach, a birth to three training module was developed and implemented. The outcome has created the potential to rapidly institutionalize birth to three training for both the early childhood education and medical models and to spread the ECHO approach throughout the state.
This course will provide an overview of the birth to three course, the training approach used and the collaborative partnerships critical for updating early childhood screening statewide.
- Discuss Arizona's collaborative effort in updating early childhood screening practices. Identify Arizona's method of spreading the ECHO Initiative statewide.
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Presenters/Authors
Randi Winston-Gerson
(POC,Primary Presenter,Author), NCHAM, A.T. Still University, The EAR Foundation of Arizona, randiwinston@infanthearing.org;
Randi consults on a variety of EHDI related projects and serves as adjunct assistant professor at A.T. Still University. Prior to that she worked as a consulting audiologist for The EAR Foundation of Arizona and Arizona's EHDI Program since 1998. Her role included the implementation of newborn hearing and early childhood screening programs with an emphasis on program quality, systems development and best practices. During that time she served on NCHAM’s Technical Assistance Network, assisting states in Region X. Randi maintains her role as lead audiologist on the Newborn Hearing Screening Training Curriculum (NHSTC) project and has co-authored several research articles involving newborn and early childhood screening.
Randi holds doctorate of audiology, is state licensed in Arizona and a member of AAA, ASHA and the ArSHA. She also serves as director of the Arizona Special Olympics Healthy Hearing Program.
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