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Last Modified: 02/01/2012

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Early Head Start

Probes and Tips:  An interactive newsletter promoting quality early childhood hearing screening practices

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This newsletter provides TIPS to enhance OAE screening and follow-up practices and PROBES about current activities so screening programs can learn from one another's successes and challenges.

02/2012 Check that Hearing Aids are Working
01/2012 Types of Hearing Loss
12/2011 Putting Your Hearing Screening Practices in the Spotlight!
11/2011 Blow Your Own Horn and Spread the Word!
10/2011 Calculate Your OAE Pass/Refer Rate
09/2011 Serve Children Identified with Hearing Loss
08/2011 Prepare for Screening and Get to Know Your Partners in Hearing Health Care
07/2011 Deliver "Just in Time" Information to Health Care Providers
06/2011 Listen Up!
05/2011 Check Out Our Updated Website!
04/2011 Evaluate OAE Equipment Features Before You Buy
03/2011 Troubleshoot Screening Equipment Problems
02/2011 Introduce Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) Hearing Screening to Health Care Providers
01/2011 Answers to Many Frequently Asked Questions
12/2010 "Hears" How to Know When a Child's OAE Screening is Complete
11/2010 Don't Ask - Do Tell:  Elicit Cooperation from Children During OAE Screening
10/2010 Tracking OAE Outcomes and Next Steps Need Not be Messy: Check out our new, simplified tracking tool!
09/2010 Carefully Evaluate Before Contracting for Outside Hearing Screening Services
08/2010 Develop Your Program's Capacity to Include Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
07/2010 Get Ready to Train or Re-Train Screeners
06/2010 Find Out What OAE Equipment Others are Using and Share Your Preferences
05/2010 Look for New Resources from the ECHO Initiative
03/2010 Inform Health Care Providers About OAE Screening
02/2010 Protect Your Screening Equipment From the Cold!!!
01/2010 Add Your Voice to the ECHO: Reach Out to Newly Funded Programs
12/2009 Share Hearing Screening Results with Your State Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program: Spotlight on Iowa
11/2009 Reach Out to the Larger Head Start Community: Spotlight on Utah's Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative
10/2009 Involve Teachers in Facilitating the OAE Hearing Screening Process
09/2009 Take Time to Carefully Select Otoacoustic Emissions Hearing Screening Equipment
September Newsletter Resources:
08/2009 Promote Quality Hearing Screening With Your Local Part C and Part B/619 Early Intervention Programs
August Newsletter Resources:
07/2009 Obtain Newborn Hearing Screening Results and Use Them Appropriately
06/2009 Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) Screening for Children with Pressure Equalization (PE) Tubes
05/2009 Comparison of Subjective and Objective Hearing Screening Methods for Young Children
04/2009 Learning Which Parts of the Hearing System are Screened with Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) and Tympanometry
03/2009 Share Your OAE Screening Knowledge with Local Part C Early Intervention Programs
02/2009 Track and Monitor Your Hearing Screening and Follow-up Outcomes
01/2009 Facilitate the Middle Ear Consultation and Conduct an OAE Rescreen
12/2008 Supporting Parent Follow-up
11/2008 Children Who are Difficult to Screen
10/2008 Identify Appropriate Hearing Screening Methods for each Age Group
09/2008 Collaborate with a Pediatric Audiologist