The Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative serves Early Head Start programs as the National Resource Center on Early Hearing Detection and Intervention. Our goals are to ensure that these and other early childhood programs have:

• Up-to-date information about recommended Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) hearing screening practices for children 0 – 3 years of age; and
• Tools to effectively implement OAE screening so that children with hearing health needs are identified as early as possible and provided with appropriate follow-up services and support.

Read a brief description about OAE screening [PDF]

Watch a two-minute video demonstrating OAE screening

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Meet the ECHO Initiative Team

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