2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference

March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH

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Intervention services across the nation -- are they enough?

This presentation will describe the impact of intervention on children who receive different amounts of intervention in a national sample of children with hearing loss enrolled in early intervention. Children with hearing loss may receive a variety of types of services such as toddler groups, OT/PT, in home intervention, or group intervention. Demographic factors will be considered such as degree of hearing loss, type of amplification, mothers level of education, language in the home, race/ethnicity, presence of additional disability and severity of additional disability, and age of identification.

  • The learner will be able to describe the variation in intervention services across the country.
  • The learner will be able to describe the impact of amount of intervention on outcomes.

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Mallene Wiggin (), University of Colorado-Boulder, Mallene.Wiggin@colorado.edu;
Mallene Wiggin received her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from University of the Pacific. She continued her studies at University of Kansas and earned her Master of Arts degree in Speech Pathology. Mallene specialized in children with hearing impairment and worked in cochlear implant centers, early intervention, and educational settings prior to completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado - Boulder. Her research interests include speech, language and auditory development in young children with cochlear implants.


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Allison Sedey (), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and research associate. She works at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind and is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of this center is to expand public health capacity to gather, analyze, and use intervention and developmental outcome data of children who are deaf or hard of hearing between birth and 5 years of age throughout the United States. The center aims to increase our understanding of factors that impact the outcomes of children who are deaf or hard of hearing at the state and national level.


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Christine Yoshinaga-Itano (), University of Colorado-Boulder, Christie.Yoshi@colorado.edu;
Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is a Research Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado-Denver and the Marion Downs Center. In 1996 she developed the Marion Downs National Center. Since 1996, Dr. Yoshinaga-Itano has assisted many state departments of education and public health agencies, schools for the deaf and the blind, and early intervention programs throughout the United States and its territories. In addition, she has served as a consultant for many countries currently developing their early hearing detection and intervention programs, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Korea, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, and South Africa.


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Craig Mason (), University of Maine, Craig_Mason@umit.maine.edu;
Craig Mason is the associate professor at university of Maine, and he is a consultant of the EHDI team, Centers for Disease control and Prevention


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