May, 2016

ECHO Initiative

Events

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New Live Webinars:

Improving the Quality
of Your Hearing
Screening Program:
Intermediate Level Webinar for Early Head Start Programs

May 10, 2016
3:00 p.m. Eastern

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ECHO Initiative

Links to Recorded Webinars:

If you've missed any of

our previous webinars,

you can now click
on the links below
to watch a recorded

version of these

webinars:

Mini Coffee Break Webinar: Introduction to Evidence- Based Hearing Screening Practices for Children 0-3 Years of Age

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Introduction to OAE

Hearing Screening

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Improving OAE

Screening and Follow-up: Intermediate Level Webinar

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Improving Hearing

Screening Practices for Children Three to Five

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Understanding Hearing
Loss in Young Children

New to

OAE Screening?

If your program is new to OAE screening,

or if you have added
new staff who need

instruction on OAE

screening practices,

visit our

Get Started and

Implement page

where staff can view instructional video

modules and access the corresponding

resources.

Quick Links

Find more helpful hints from previous issues of

Probes and Tips

and many other
resources at:

www.kidshearing.org

Communication Takes Care

May is Better Hearing and Speech Month and the ECHO Initiative supports the work that each of you and others are doing to make sure that children can communicate. As a part of that, we are "echoing" the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Communication Takes Care theme.

Every family looks forward to seeing a child's first smile, first step, and first words. But it is easy to overlook that hearing health is at the heart of language development for most children.

If we are going to be conscientious about monitoring language development and communication throughout early childhood, we need to take equal care in monitoring hearing health during this critical period of life. With this in mind, the ECHO Initiative will be jointly sponsoring a coffee-break webinar with the Office of Special Education Programs within the U.S. Department of Education. On May 18th at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) we'll present Quality Hearing Screening Practices for Children Birth to Five Years of Age.

No registration is required. Captioning Services are available at the following URL: http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=NCHAM

You will need to position your browser windows (the primary webinar page window and the captioning page window) side by side. If the captioning page opens in a new browser tab (instead of a new browser window), you can "tear off" the tab by clicking and dragging the new tab away from the first browser window. You can then resize your two browser windows as needed by clicking and dragging in the bottom-right corner of each window.

Hearing screening followed by appropriate audiological assessment and early intervention can dramatically improve optio Finger puppets

ns and outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. We thank you for all you are doing to ensure that the children in your care get the screening and services they need and we hope you'll join us for this webinar.

How are you promoting May as
Better Hearing and Speech Month?

Let us know at:

echo.ncham@usu.edu

And, as always, share www.KidsHearing.org with anyone you think would benefit from our resources.

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