Resources

Get contact information for your state's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program or call 866-997-HEAR (4327)

Read more about newborn hearing screening, diagnosis and intervention:

• Visit the American Academy of Pediatrics: Newborn Hearing Screening Activities website
• View and print the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines (PDF) and Checklist (PDF) outlining hearing screening, diagnostic, and treatment steps.
• Visit the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management website
• Print family-friendly information from the Boys Town National Research Hospital and National Institute for Deafness and other Communicative Disorders
• Watch a 6-minute video about newborn hearing screening
  • a Spanish-language version is also available
• Watch 22-minute a video about hearing screening for infants and toddlers
• Learn more about screening infants and toddlers for permanent hearing loss during well-child visits. View or download the training video and guide Early Identification of Hearing Loss: Conducting periodic Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) hearing screening with infants and toddlers during well-child visits.
• Listen to what it sounds like to have a hearing loss.
  • This 90-second audio recording will help you understand what speech sounds like to a person who has a hearing loss.
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• This 9-minute audio recording will take you through a series of exercises to help you understand what speech sounds like to a person who has a hearing loss. As part of the demonstration, you will be asked to write down what you hear, so each person listening should have a pen/pencil and paper ready
  • Streaming Audio
• View the accompanying word and sentence lists (to be viewed after participating in the audio exercises) [TXT]