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Universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS), which is part of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programmes, refer to those services aimed at screening hearing of all newborns, regardless of the presence of a risk factor for hearing loss. UNHS is the first step in the EHDI program which indicates whether a newborn requires further ...
The Newborn and Infant Screening and Intervention Program Act was authored and sponsored, mainly, by Walsh in 1999. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] On March 11, 2009, the act was renamed as the James T. Walsh Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program, [ 6 ] and was identified within 42 United States Code 280g-1 . [ 6 ]
From 1993 to 1996, NCHAM directed a National Consortium for Newborn Hearing Screening that resulted in over 100 hospitals in 10 states implementing newborn hearing screening programs. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] From 1996 to 2000, NCHAM staff worked with newborn hearing screening programs in 35 states and provided direct assistance to over 200 ...
Marion Downs (January 26, 1914 – November 13, 2014) [1] was an American audiologist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She pioneered universal newborn hearing screening in the early 1960s and spent over 30 years advocating for its adoption in hospitals, as well as for the provision of hearing aids to infants displaying hearing loss. [2]
Universal newborn hearing screenings are mandated in a majority of the United States. These screenings include OAE testing – otoacoustic emissions, which are sounds generated from the cochlea transmitted across the middle ear to the external ear canal, where they can be recorded. It assesses functionality of the cochlea, but not the auditory ...
Newborn screening programs initially used screening criteria based largely on criteria established by JMG Wilson and F. Jungner in 1968. [6] Although not specifically about newborn population screening programs, their publication, Principles and practice of screening for disease proposed ten criteria that screening programs should meet before being used as a public health measure.
The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2014 would amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and revise a grant program for screening, counseling, and other services related to heritable disorders. The bill would expand eligible grantees to include a health professional organization and an early childhood health system.
The Clinic serves as a referral source for Georgia's Universal Newborn Hearing Screening program and dispenses hearing aids for infants. The Hanen Program for parents of children with language delays is offered through the clinic. Therapists in the clinic also perform speech and hearing screenings for independent schools in the metro Atlanta area.