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Glossary of Newborn Hearing Screening Terms
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December 18, 2012
This glossary of terms makes understanding the terminology used when talking about newborn hearing screening much easier. It explains such terms as auditory brainstem response, audiogram, audiologist, early intervention, and dozens more.
Physician's Roadmap
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December 18, 2012
This form makes it easy for physician’s to track a baby’s hearing screening follow-up tasks from birth to 6 months old.
Reasons to Follow Up
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December 18, 2012
Explains the many reasons why you should continue with follow-up visits if your baby does not pass newborn hearing screening.
Birthing Hospital Screening Responsibilities
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December 14, 2012
Explains requirements for initial hearing screening, rescreening of infants who refer, infants not screened prior to discharge, infants who pass screen but have an identified risk factor, hospital documentation and communication of screening results, hospital screening requirements, and more.
Medical Home Responsibilities
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December 14, 2012
Since 1999, the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing has advocated for appropriate and necessary care for the infant with hearing loss to be directed and coordinated by the child’s physician within the medical home with support from appropriate ancillary services.
Principles and Guidelines for Early Development of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
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December 14, 2012
Since the first universal newborn hearing screening programs were established in the early 1990s, there has been significant progress. Progress is evident in the development and implementation of protocols for newborn hearing screening, pediatric audiologic evaluation of newborns, fitting of amplification, and medical management of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Understanding Newborn Hearing Screening Diagnosis
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December 14, 2012
When a hearing loss is first diagnosed, the test results may seem confusing. Although hearing loss is often described as a percentage, it is too complex to describe with one number. Remember, also, that determining how your child uses, or will use, his or her residual hearing is a process.
Why Physicians Check Newborn Hearing Screen Status & Provide Needed Follow Up
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December 14, 2012
This document explains why physicians check newborn hearing screen status and provide needed follow-up.
Script for Talking to Parents
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September 5, 2012
This script helps healthcare providers to talk to parents in English and Spanish about a variety of situations including informing parents of the screen, explaining passing and not passing, inconclusive results or could not screen, passing and not passing with risk factors for hearing loss, and does not pass.