2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
4/16/2013 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM | Hearing Health History: Tracking hearing health from birth to five years of age to improve follow-up and outcomes for children. | Solana D | 6
Hearing Health History: Tracking hearing health from birth to five years of age to improve follow-up and outcomes for children.
Complete and accurate health records are essential for professionals to follow-up appropriately. The Wyoming EHDI Program has focused on developing a Hearing Health History (HHH) database and tracking system that includes all of a child's hearing records from birth to five years of age. Service providers, including audiologists, physicians, and early interventionists, have access to the HHH system and update the hearing history (e.g., hearing screening results, diagnostics, notes) of their clients. To improve follow-up and outcomes, the HHH system has been built with 'action items' to ensure that individuals who are responsible for the hearing health of a particular child know the next steps they need to take for their patient. Additionally, because risk factors for late onset hearing loss (LOHL) are recorded at time of birth, the HHH system is programmed to track how many children identified with LOHL risk factors at birth developed hearing loss after passing newborn hearing screening. In our presentation we will discuss: a) the data our state is gathering and how it is being used; b) how we are encouraging service providers to use and contribute to the HHH database; and c) how we are working to improve the quality of data being entered in to the HHH system.
- Identify how data collection can be used to provide timely and appropriate follow-up for children birth to age five.
- Describe steps to improve quality of data entered into tracking systems.
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Presenters/Authors
Sarah Fitzgerald
(Author), Wyoming EHDI Program, nanpajak@aol.com;
Sarah Fitzgerald has worked as the Wyoming EHDI Follow-Up Coordinator for seven years.
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Nancy Pajak
(POC,Primary Presenter,Author), Marion Downs Center, nanpajak@gmail.com;
Nancy Pajak graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1975 with a B.S. In Speech Pathology. She spent two years working as a speech/language therapist in Minnesota public schools before beginning her Master of Science in Audiology studies at Colorado State University. Upon completion of her Masters, Nancy accepted a position with the Colorado West Otolaryngology Practice in Grand Junction Colorado. While Nancy enjoyed the medical setting, her true love was Educational Audiology. She began work at Natrona County School District in Casper WY as the District Audiologist and enjoyed this work until moving to Seattle in 1987. It was in the Pacific Northwest that Nancy found the opportunity to spend half of her time in educational audiology settings and the other half in a medical audiology/otologist environment. Nancy blended diagnostics for all ages of patients, fitting amplification, counseling, and patient care in the medical setting and used her skills in direct intervention and case management for school age children who were Deaf/Hard of Hearing in the educational setting. Nancy worked as the Director of Outreach Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at the Wyoming Department of Education while keeping up her medical skills up at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie. As the importance of early hearing screening came of age, Nancy accepted the opportunity of designing and implementing the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program for the Wyoming Department of Health. She was the Wyoming EHDI Coordinator for 25 years. Nancy is utilizing her knowledge and experience in speech pathology, audiology, program management and child development/education as she serves as the Liaison/Consultant between the Wyoming Early Intervention Initiative (WEII) Program and the Marion Downs Center.
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