One Woman Strives to Tackle Newborn Hearing Loss in the Developing World

Every year roughly 100,000 hearing-impaired babies are born in India, yet the country lacks a universal screening programs to identify hearing loss. India isn’t alone in facing this problem, the majority of those with hearing loss live in low- or middle-income countries.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/06/24/one-woman-strives-to-tackle-newborn-hearing-loss-in-the-developing-world/

NEW Family Centered Care Coordination Policy Statement

This newly released American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement outlines essential partnerships critical to a framework of integrated care for children and youth across multiple systems. This statement provides practical application of care coordination integration in practices and communities. An accompanying article in AAP News highlights the importance of this policy in practice.

Link: http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/about/newsletter/index.aspx#1

The Earliest Interventions: When Parents Discover They Have a Deaf Child

Expectant parents eagerly await the birth of their child and celebrate the baby’s arrival. Parents fully expect their baby to resemble them physically and in temperament. The confirmation that their baby is deaf is usually unexpected, and parents are often unprepared for this news. Most parents with deaf or hard-of-hearing babies born in the United States discover their child’s hearing level soon after birth. Differences in hearing levels occur in roughly 2 -3 births per 1000, and in almost all of these instances, the parents are hearing.

Link: http://raisingandeducatingdeafchildren.org/the-earliest-interventions-when-parents-discover-they-have-a-deaf-child

Did you know that Text4Baby contains important messages about newborn hearing screening and follow up?

Read about Text4Baby’s latest research demonstrating its effectiveness – STUDY: EFFECTIVENESS OF TEXT4BABY: A recently-released study demonstrates the effectiveness of the Text4baby program. Initial Outcomes From a 4-Week Follow-Up Study of the Text4baby Program in the Military Women’s Population: Randomized Controlled Trial found that targeted beliefs, including those about the importance of prenatal health care, the risk of alcohol use during pregnancy and the importance of prenatal vitamins were more likely to improve given exposure to Text4baby. The study was led by the Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at George Washington University and the Madigan Army Medical Center and was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. The study authors concluded that Text4baby reduces health risk beliefs targeted by the text messages. Click here to learn more or to review the study

Link: https://text4baby.org/index.php/news/458-new-study-finds-text-messaging-program-benefits-pregnant-women