"Diagnostics and Amplification for Infants and Toddlers"
Training for Audiologists
First Time in Michigan !
Michigan's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program and the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) are partnering to offer an exciting training opportunity for audiologists. The training combines six weeks of online preparation with a four day on-site session in NOVI, MI, emphasizing clinical procedures and hands-on practicum. Audiology CEU's (40 hours of 4.0 CEU's) will be available for this training.
Scholarships are available for Michigan Audiologists.
Contact Dee Robertson, EHDI Community Consultant, at 517-373-8601 or robertsond2@michigan.govfor more information.
More Detailed Information on Training
Registration online atwww.infanthearing.org or contact Dr. Karen Ditty at 832-455-6261 orKDitty@me.com Training Registration Fee: $350.00 on or before 12-04-2009.
Late registration $450.00 after 12/04/2009.
(Please note: This special low registration rate can be offered due to a generous grant from the Maternal Child Health Bureau.)
SAVE THE DATE
Mark your calendar for Friday February 26th, 2010 for the Michigan EHDI Conference. This annual conference is for parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, audiologists and early interventionists that work with families. The conference will be held at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing, Michigan. Parent scholarships will be available! This is an event you won't want to miss!
Speakers include: Anne Marie Tharpe, Ph.D. audiologist, and Robert Baldwin, Ph.D. psychologist, along with Michigan's own experts in the field!
A pre-conference parent dinner will be held on Thursday, February 25, 2010. The dinner is being sponsored by Michigan Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side and will feature speaker Robert Baldwin, Ph.D.
For more information:
Website:www.eandt.mphi.org.
Phone: 517-335-8955.
VP: 517-335-8273.
The Michigan Department of Community Health, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) is proud to announce:
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The Michigan Department of Community Health, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program (EHDI) is proud to announce:
The Newborn Hearing Screening On-Line Training is now live! Go to http://learning.mihealth.org to access the course.
The goals of the course are to provide information on universal newborn hearing screening and to increase screener proficiency in all Michigan hospitals. Guidelines are given to accompany this on-line course with hands-on training. This course is especially important for nurses, hearing screeners and managers of newborn hearing screening programs.
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The on-line course includes 8 modules:
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Introduction to Newborn Hearing Screening
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The Ear and Hearing
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Getting Ready to Screen
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Newborn Hearing Screening Methods
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Risk Indicators
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Communicating Hearing Screen Results
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Completing the Screening Process
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Program Management
2.0 Nurse Contact Hours are available for those Nurses and LPN's that successfully complete all of the modules with an 80% passing score on the post assessment.
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Wisconsin Nurses Association Continuing Education Approval Program Committee, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Planning committee members include Lorie Lang, M.A., Audiology Consultant, Michelle Garcia, AuD., Follow Up Consultant for the EHDI Program as well as Debra Behringer, RN, MSN, Nurse Consultant for Michigan Department of Community Health.
* No content experts or members of the planning committee disclosed relationships with commercial interests relative to this educational activity.
* No commercial support was received for this educational activity.
* There will be no off-label uses of commercial products discussed during this program.
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Webcasting is available until March 2010
The Michigan Department of Community Health, Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program fifth annual EHDI Conference for audiologists, interventionists and parents was held on March 19, 2009. This conference was intended for families of young children with hearing loss and professionals who work with deaf or hard of hearing children. Speakers were Joy Peterson and Eileen Rall, Audiologists from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Kathy Rheume, Counselor for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Sessions included:
Suggested protocols for diagnostic pediatric audiology and common problems in confirmation of hearing loss for infants.
Supporting the Social, Emotional and Behavioral Development of Children with Hearing Loss.
Counseling Guidelines: Supporting Children with Hearing Loss and their Families.
webcasting instructions is a document which offers guidance to the webcast viewer on how to navigate through the webcast screen and most importantly how to properly use the closed captioning.
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