Audiologist's Role in Referral to Early Intervention

Recorded On: 08/03/2016

Audiologist's Role in Referral to Early Intervention

Wednesday, August 3, 2016; 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

Presenter: Presented by Christine Yoshinaga-Itano PhD

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Duration: 1 hour

Who Should Attend: Pediatric Audiologists, Educational Audiologists, audiologists working in any center that diagnoses children in young children, community clinics

Instructional Level: Intermediate
Program Focus: Knowledge

Learner Outcomes: Upon completion, each participant in the eAudiology Web seminar will be able to:

1.Define early intervention services

2.Describe why a referral should be made and how to make the referral

3.Describe the benefit to the child and the family for a seamless transition from diagnosis to early intervention enrollment.

Description: This presentation will provide a definition of early intervention services and the professional responsibility of the diagnosing audiologist to assure that families are not only referred to early intervention but also enroll. Research data from 10 states about the role of identification by 3 months and enrollment into early intervention by 6 months on the language developmental outcomes of children who are deaf or hard of hearing will be described. State by state variability in the provision of early intervention services will be characterized into several models: 1) a deafness/hearing-specific publicly provided early intervention program, 2) early intervention programs that are deafness/hearing specific that are both publicly and privately provided, 3) early intervention programs that are non-categorical (non-specific to deafness and hearing loss) that are publicly provided, 4) hybrid programs. Information about different methods of making a referral to early intervention, tracking whether or not the families enrolled into an early intervention program, and reporting enrollment

Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhD

Research Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder, adjunct faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado, Denver and on the Advisory Board of th

Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is an active Research Professor in t Cognitive Science and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder, adjunct faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology and Audiology at the University of Colorado, Denver and on the Advisory Board of the Marion Downs Center. She developed the Marion Downs Center in 1996 and received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, Maternal & Child Health, the Office of Special Education, and the Office of Education since the early 1980s. Dr. Yoshinaga-Itano has assisted education and public health agencies in the transformation of their systems throughout the United Statits territories. In addition, she has served as a consultant for many countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South Pacific Islands including Australia/New Zealand, North America (including Canada and Mexico), South America, Russia, and the Middle East, who have developed early hearing detection and intervention programs. She is a Fellow of the National Academies of Practice. She was the recipient of the 2015 Educational Audiology Association Fred Berg Lifetime Achievement Award, Colorado Academy of Audiology Lifetime Achievement, the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology in 2013, AAA Research Achievement Award in 2001, the 2010 Robert Ruben Award for Research from the Society for Ear Nose and Throat Advances for Children, the 2014 Antonio Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence, and the 2010 Council for Exceptional Children, Division of Communicative Disabilities and Deafness Award. Her work is interdisciplinary and intersects with speech/language pathology, education of the deaf, early childhood education, pediatrics, otolaryngology, and psychology.