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Don’t Miss Out! Register Now for our EHDI Panel Discussion on Language Acquisition in Infants Identified as D/HH

February 8, 2024 | Noon – 1:00 pm CT

Join The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) virtual panel discussion, “From Early Identification to Intervention: How to Promote Language Acquisition for Infants Identified as D/HH.” Expert perspectives from pediatric clinicians, early interventionists, audiologists, family/caregivers, and pediatric subspecialists will inform crucial aspects of the EHDI system. This event is tailored for pediatric health clinicians, including pediatricians and family medicine practitioners, but open to all EHDI system members! Learn about EHDI partners’ roles and discover success stories in supporting language acquisition for children that are D/HH. Register now to not miss this insightful discussion! Closed captioning and an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter will be available for accessibility.

Register at this link: https://aap.webex.com/webappng/sites/aap/meeting/register/0ba6f2f3cb7643218db7f7ceb0154cc2?ticket=4832534b000000066354a7a25d57b2f36e4813a5dfb3e50e76c95bb867d875b786f30b3b6e9ad1bb&timestamp=1705089570232&RGID=rdb26576babd39d8e89611c0c91b36610

Earworm has just released a new dialogue on hearing health you won’t be able to stop thinking about. This new episode is entitled, “How will we communicate with our child? Supporting families as they face key questions when their child is diagnosed as deaf or hard of hearing”.

This episode features a conversation with Amy Spencer who is the coordinator of early intervention and family services at the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Amy will be talking about the critical decisions families of deaf or hard of hearing children face in the weeks and months after diagnosis and how health care providers, early interventionists, audiologists and others can provide meaningful support. You won’t want to miss this practical and insightful discussion.

The Earworm podcast features conversations with a wide array of professionals, family members, advocates, and scientists whose experiences, ideas, curiosities, and activities are committed to ensuring that all children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can thrive. The Earworm podcast is available for streaming anywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as on www.earwormpodcast.org.

Previous Earworm podcasts include:

Episode 5: The Potential of Preventing the Most Common Non-Genetic Cause of Hearing Loss with a Vaccine/ Interview with Dr. Lori Panther

Episode 4: New Frontiers in Universal Hearing Screening: Genetic Screening / Interview with Dr. Eliot Shearer

Episode 3: Diagnosing Why? The importance of knowing the cause of a child’s hearing loss / with Dr. Eliot Shearer

Episode 2: Newborn Screening Isn’t Enough: A parent’s perspective on late identified hearing loss / with Valerie Abbott

Episode 1: Newborn Screening Isn’t Enough: Monitoring Hearing Status Throughout Early Childhood/ with Dr. Dylan Chan

New Episodes are released each month and feature conversations with a wide array of professionals, family members, advocates, and scientists whose experiences, ideas, curiosities, and activities are committed to ensuring that all children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can thrive. The Earworm podcast is available for streaming anywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as on www.earwormpodcast.org.

Attention Idaho residents!

Consider attending the 2024 Professional Collaboration with

Idaho’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program and the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM).

The two organizations are partnering to offer another exciting training opportunity for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, Early Interventionists, Teachers for the Deaf, Family-to-Family Support, and students in any of the above named disciplines.

Online training will be once a week beginning the week of January 15, 2024 and continuing through March 27, 2024 (60 minutes each week). This will prepare participants to fully engage during the onsite workshop. Online sessions utilize the free Moodle and Zoom platforms. In order to participate fully, you will be required to have video, audio and keyboard capabilites during all online sessions.

The in-person workshop will take place February 23-24, 2024 at a TBD location.

More information and registration details can be found here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ek3in8jp06015200&llr=mhicgejab