Anne B. Harris, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since 2011 the Wisconsin EHDI program, called “Sound Beginnings” (SB), has worked in collaboration with Wisconsin WIC agencies to reach infants at risk for lost to follow-up (LTFU) for newborn hearing screening (NHS). Overall, rates of LTFU have been decreasing in Wisconsin since the WIC NHS alert system was put into place, but it is unclear what part of this is due to the WIC follow-up strategies. The purpose of this …Read More »
Funded Research
Six new DRDC/CDC projects began on September 30, 2014, and details are shown below, along with projects initially funded in prior years.
Collaboration between WIC and EHDI to Improve Follow-up of Newborn Hearing Screen – Ohio
October 11, 2013 by
Lisa Hunter, PhD, Principal Investigator, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The overall goal of this proposal is to improve follow-up rates of infants who are referred from newborn hearing screening and enrolled in a targeted intervention group by implementing a highly integrated follow-up re-screening program for at-risk children in the Greater Cincinnati area (Hamilton County, Ohio) Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. This work is innovative because it shifts the focus from …Read More »
NECAP: EHDI Developmental Outcomes Study – Multistate Assessment
October 11, 2013 by
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of Colorado – Boulder. Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs were instituted in the United States to provide infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing an opportunity to develop language and social/emotional skills commensurate with their cognitive potential. However, there are limited data available to determine if this public health initiative has been met. Although approximately 98% of the babies born in …Read More »
LTSAE – Missouri’s Phase II
October 11, 2013 by
Janet E. Farmer, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of Missouri. This project will build on Missouri’s successful Learn the Signs Act Early (LTSAE) pilot that was conducted in partnership with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program in St. Louis City. The pilot established partnerships with WIC agencies and developed a LTSAE protocol for enhancing awareness of developmental milestones among low-income parents of young children enrolled in WIC. Two key components of the program …Read More »
Using Technology to Conduct LTSAE Outreach at Georgia WIC Clinics
October 11, 2013 by
Rosa I. Arriaga, PhD, Principal Investigator, Georgia Institute of Technology. Technology for monitoring early childhood developmental milestones and its adoption among low-income mothers of young children has not been evaluated. This study will focus on understanding the utilization of technology among WIC participants with the goal of discovering what interface might be most useful for the task of tracking milestones. The project will also involve implementing and testing the Learn the Signs Act …Read More »
Predictors of Use of Preventive Services by Adults with ID, SCI and Those Who are Blind (funded in 2012)
October 11, 2013 by
Suzanne McDermott, PhD, Principal Investigator, University of South Carolina. The project seeks to answer these questions: 1) what are the factors associated with timely receipt of age and gender specific US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) preventive health recommendations for three case groups: (a) adults with intellectual disability (ID), (b) adults with spinal cord injuries (SCI), and (c) adults who are blind; 2) are there differences in the prevalence and age at onset of common health …Read More »