2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/20/2018 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM | Learn How New Web-Based Training is Elevating the Quantity/Quality of Lay Screeners Serving Young Children in Your State | Granite A-C
Learn How New Web-Based Training is Elevating the Quantity/Quality of Lay Screeners Serving Young Children in Your State
While EHDI staff are sometimes asked to do more with less, a new web-based training series aims to serve State EHDIs by multiplying the number of skilled lay screeners working in early childhood programs to help identify children with late onset and progressive hearing loss as well as those lost to follow-up from newborn screening. For the past 18 months, the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative has been conducting quarterly web-based training classes to dramatically increase the number of early care and education providers who can implement high-quality OAE screening programs for children 0 – 3 years of age.
Over 1300 individuals in 300 early childhood programs across the US have benefited from this training. The training consists of four, 1-hour, live web-based sessions with learners completing a sequence of hands-on activities. Class content covers: 1) the importance of periodic screening; 2) what OAE screening is and why it is the recommended method; 3) programmatic elements essential to hearing screening program development; 4) guided hands-on experiences using OAE screening equipment; and 5) documentation and tracking following a protocol to ensure that children not passing the screening receive appropriate and timely follow-up. The individuals who are being trained already work closely with families on a daily basis and are highly effective at helping parents address identified needs.
Participants attending this session will learn how they can: 1) receive updates on upcoming web-based trainings; 2) find out which programs/individuals in their state receive training; 3) integrate early childhood hearing screening outcomes into a State EHDI data base; 4) utilize the growing cadre of trained screeners; and 5) utilize a web-based training format as a means for meeting other training needs of individuals in dispersed geographical locations.
- Participants attending this session will learn how web-based training will continue to be offered
- Participants attending this session will learn how they can be informed about individuals in their state who receive web-class training
- Participants attending this session will learning how they can integrate early childhood hearing screening outcomes into a State EHDI data base
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Lenore Shisler
(), NCHAM, leshisler@gmail.com;
Lenore Shisler is a Senior Research Scientist with the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management who provides technical assistance to newborn and early childhood hearing screening programs.
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William Eiserman
(), EHDI NTRC - NCHAM, will.eiserman@gmail.com;
Dr. William Eiserman is the Director of Early Childhood Projects and the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative at the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM), Utah State University. Dr. Eiserman's background includes program evaluation, instructional design, project management, and training.
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Terry Foust
(), Intermountain Healthcare, terry@foustmail.com;
Terry Foust, AuD., has implemented and directed large newborn hearing screening programs in Utah and Idaho. He has provided consultation services to the Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB), the HRSA Office of Performance Review (OPR), the Medicaid and Medicare Policy Research Center and the NCHAM. He is a National Technical Assistance Network audiologist for NCHAM providing support to state EHDI programs and the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach program.
International experience includes work and consultation in Accra (Ghana Africa), Costa Rica, Cairo Egypt, and most recently in Mumbai India.
Professional honors include being the first recipient of the newly established Mary J. Webster Distinguished Service Award from the Utah Speech-Language and Hearing Association, recognition by Utah Business Magazine as the 2007 Healthcare Hero of the year as an administrator, the 2006 recipient of the national Larry H. Mauldin award for excellence in audiology education and other honors.
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