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Texas EHDI and the Texas Academy of Audiology (TAA) are partnering up to offer an exciting opportunity to the pediatric audiology community and interested stakeholders!

Texas EHDI and TAA have partnered up to offer a preconference session in conjuntion with TAA's Annual Conference.  The conference will be held Friday, November 12 and Saturday, November 13, 2010 in Houston.  Registered participants of the conference may also attend the preconference, scheduled for Thursday, November 11, 2010.  The preconference session is free for registered conference attendees.

The Pediatric Audiologist’s Role to Support the Texas Early Hearing Detection & Intervention System Thursday, November 11, 2010                                                                                                             1:00 pm - 4:30 pm     

The goal of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) is to maximize linguistic and communicative competence and literacy development for children who are hard of hearing or deaf.  Achieving this result is dependent upon the early detection of, and intervention for, infants with hearing loss (early hearing detection and intervention, [EHDI]) through integrated, interdisciplinary state and national systems of universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS), evaluation, and family-centered intervention.  Participants will be part of an interactive session in which the State’s EHDI interagency representatives will share elements of the Texas Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Statewide Campaign and related initiatives now underway in select “Communities of Change” across Texas in an effort to improve follow-up outcomes for families of infants and toddlers navigating the complex EHDI system of care.  This session will detail the role of the pediatric audiology provider to support the local EHDI network of care, highlight parental issues related to newborn hearing screening and diagnosis, and the importance of building collaborative partnerships between families, early intervention programs, pediatric audiology providers and medical home.

Presenters:

Mary Gwyn Allen, M.A., Program Coordinator, Texas Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, Department of State Health Services

Alicia M. Favila, M. Ed., State Coordinator, Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services: Birth - 5, Region 10 Education Service Center

Angela Shoup, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Otolaryngology Director, Division of Communicative and Vestibular Disorders, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Audra Stewart, D.O., MP.H. AAP Texas EHDI Chapter Champion, Pediatrician, UT Southwestern Medical Center

For more information on the Texas Academy of Audiology's Annual Conference or the preconference session sponsored by Texas EHDI go to https://www.texasaudiology.org/conferences.asp

We wish to thank the Texas Academy of Audiology for their partnership in extending this important opportunity to conference participants.  We look forward to seeing you there!