What Happens If an Infant Does Not Pass the Hearing Screening?
• All infants who do not pass the hearing screening should be referred for further testing to rule out or confirm a hearing loss. • All infants with confirmed hearing loss should be referred for a comprehensive medical evaluation to assess the causes and look for potential or related disabilities. • Depending on the results of the audiological and medical examinations, infants may be referred to an intervention program. • To find out more about intervention options, please contact CDC Info at 1-800-232-4636 or cdcinfo@cdc.gov. • To learn more about infant hearing loss and how the ear works you can visit the Boys Town National Research Hospital at babyhearing.org. How Can I Find Resources Such as Hearing Screening Tests That Are Available in My Area? To learn more about programs and services in your area, please contact your local Early Hearing Detection Intervention (EHDI) Program coordinator. You will find this information at www.cdc.
• All infants who do not pass the hearing screening should be referred for further testing to rule out or confirm a hearing loss. • All infants with confirmed hearing loss should be referred for a comprehensive medical evaluation to assess the causes and look for potential or related disabilities. • Depending on the results of the audiological and medical examinations, infants may be referred to an intervention program. • To find out more about intervention options, please contact CDC Info at 1-800-232-4636 or cdcinfo@cdc.gov. • To learn more about infant hearing loss and how the ear works you can visit the Boys Town National Research Hospital at babyhearing.org. How Can I Find Resources Such as Hearing Screening Tests That Are Available in My Area? To learn more about programs and services in your area, please contact your local Early Hearing Detection Intervention (EHDI) Program coordinator. You will find this information at www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/ehdi/documents/stateHL_contacts.pdf. Wha
All infants who do not pass the hearing screening should be referred for further testing to rule out or confirm a hearing loss. All infants with confirmed hearing loss should be referred for a comprehensive medical evaluation to assess the causes and look for potential or related disabilities. Depending on the results of the audiological and medical examinations, infants may be referred to an intervention program. What does it mean to have a false positive newborn hearing screening test? A false positive hearing screening test result is when a baby does not have a hearing loss but the newborn does not pass the hearing screening. Hearing screening tests are not meant to diagnose hearing loss in infants. Instead, they are meant to find all infants that might have a hearing loss. Because they are not a diagnostic test, hearing screening tests sometimes misidentify infants as having a hearing loss. If a baby does not pass the newborn hearing screening test, it is VERY important to make sur
• All infants who do not pass the hearing screening should be referred for an audiological evaluation to rule out or confirm a hearing loss. All infants with confirmed hearing loss should be referred for a comprehensive medical evaluation to assess the causes and look for potential or related disabilities. Depending on the results of the audiological and medical examinations, infants may be referred to an intervention program. To find out more about intervention options, please call the AT&T HealthLine at (888) 232-6789 To be able to offer referrals for follow-up exams and intervention services, efficient state tracking systems need to be established. Tracking systems are essential to ensure that children with hearing loss receive appropriate follow-up care. What are the intervention and treatment options? Professionals are responsible for providing families with information about the full range of intervention and treatment options so that informed choices can be made. The “best” choi
