Upcoming Events
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Visit us at the
32nd Native American Child and Family Conference
Albuquerque, NM
March 17 - 21, 2013:
"Identifying Children with the Invisible Disability: Updating Hearing Screening Practices"
March 19, 2013
3:30 - 5:00 pm
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Also, look for us at the 2013
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Annual Meeting Glendale, AZ
Date: Monday April 15, 2013
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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Date: Monday April 15, 2013
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
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Quick Links
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Find more helpful hints from previous issues of
Probes and Tips
and many other resources at:
www.kidshearing.org
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New Staff?
If you have new staff who need to learn about your OAE screening practices, remember to share our website with them:
In particular,
have them view the
followed by the
Then, spend some time screening with them as they develop their screening skills.
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ABCs of Hearing & Hearing Loss
As a screening team member helping to identify children who need further hearing assessment, you'll find it helpful to become familiar with the basics of how the ear works as well as with the terms that hearing specialists use to categorize and describe hearing problems. In a previous newsletter, a discussion about Types of Hearing Loss was introduced.
 To further expand your understanding and to answer additional questions, we've recorded a Hearing Loss in Young Children webinar that provides more detailed information. The 45-minute webinar covers topics such as: - Anatomy of the ear
- Types of hearing loss
- Degrees of hearing loss
- How hearing specialists (audiologists)
summarize information about a child's hearing on an audiogram - Simulation of a hearing loss
- Roles that Early Head Start staff can play in ensuring that children with hearing loss are well served and appropriately included
You can watch the webinar at your convenience and pass the link along to others you know who could also benefit from it.
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Please ask us any further questions you may have about serving young children who are deaf or hard of hearing:
echo.ncham@usu.edu
And, as always, share www.KidsHearing.org with anyone you think would benefit from our resources.
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Logan, UT 84322
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