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Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Program

The Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Program ensures that all children who are born with or develop hearing loss in infancy are identified early and provided appropriate treatment and care that will enable them to develop appropriately for their age.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program has made great progress in achieving its primary goal of increasing the percentage of newborns screened for hearing loss prior to hospital discharge. In 1999, only 34% of newborns were screened for hearing loss prior to discharge. In 2000 the first state grants were awarded and by 2004 the percentage of newborns screened had increased to 95%.
  • The program is working toward a new goal: to improve the health outcomes of infants found to have hearing loss by helping them become enrolled in early intervention programs. Such programs have been found to be crucial in helping children with hearing loss to develop appropriately for their age and enter school with developmentally appropriate language skills.
  • While the program has indicated that an independent evaluation is in the planning stages, an evaluation of the program has not yet been conducted to inform program improvements or document effectiveness.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Identifying and implementing viable recommendations from the recently completed evaluation of the program.

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