Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Program

Web Sites and Information on Newborn Infant Hearing Screening

Rhode Island Web Sites

Rhode Island School for the Deaf

Women and Infants’ Hearing Assessment Program

National Websites

My Baby’s Hearing -Boys Town National Research Hospital

Marion Downs National Center For Newborn Hearing Screening
http://www.Colorado.EDU/slhs/mdnc/

U.S. DHHS. Public Health Service. Healthy People 2000. Progress Review. January 23, 1997
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/
hp2000/progrvw/disabprog.htm

U.S. DHHS. Public Health Service. Center For Disease Control Early Detection and Hearing Intervention
http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/programs/ehdi/default.htm

National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov

American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Adoption of JCIH Position Statement.
http://www.entnet.org/

American Academy of Pediatrics. Infant hearing screening article.
http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/6/e4

Screening Methods and Associated Vendor sites:

Transient Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions Screening (TEOAE). ILO88 by Otodynamics, for more information go to : www.oae-ilo.co.uk

Automated Auditory Brainstem Response Screening (AABR). ALGO by Natus Medical Inc., for more information go to : www.natusmed.com

Auditory Brainstem Response Screening(ABR), by Bio-logic System Corp., for more information go to: www.blsc.com

References:

Abdala de Uzcategui, C. and Yoshinaga-Itano, C. (1997). "Parents Reactions To Newborn Hearing Screening". Audiology Today. Jan./Feb., p. 24, 26.

Hayes, D. and Northern, J. (1996). Infants and Hearing. San Diego. Singular Publishing Group.

Healthy People 2000. Progress Review. 1/97. US. DHHS. PHS. Washington, DC. GPO.

Joint Committee On Infant Hearing. (1994). Position Statement. Audiology Today, 6(6), 6-9.

Northern, J. and Downs, M. (1991). Hearing In Children (4th ed.). Baltimore. Williams And Wilkins Co.

Seminars In Hearing. 1993. 14(1). Issue: The Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Project. (New protocols now in place.)

Seminars In Hearing. 1996. 17(2). Issue: Hearing In Infants.

Spivak, L., Ed. (1998). Universal Newborn Hearing Screening. NY. Thieme Medical Publishers.

Vohr, et al. (1998). "The Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Program: Experience With Statewide Hearing Screening (1993-1996)". Journal Of Pediatrics. 133:3. September. p. 353-357. Associated editorial on p. 318 - 319.

Yoshinaga-Itano, C. Et al. (1998). "Language of Early- and Later-Identified Children With Hearing Loss". Pediatrics. 102:5. November. p. 1161 - 1171.

Yoshinaga-Itano, C. (1995). Efficacy of Early Identification and Early Intervention. Seminars in Hearing. 16(2), 115-123.