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    Every day in the United States, approximately 33 babies are born with profound hearing loss and another 60-90 babies are born with partial hearing loss, making hearing loss the most common birth defect. While half of babies with hearing loss exhibit risk factors and receive screening, the other half go undetected. When hearing loss is detected after the first few months, it can significantly delay speech and language development. Early detection before 6 months of age through newborn screening programs and enrollment in early intervention leads to significantly better outcomes for children's speech, reading, and mainstreaming in regular classrooms compared to later identification. Without early intervention, the lifetime costs of special education for a child with hearing loss is approximately $1 million per individual.

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    Every day in the United States, approximately 33 babies are born with profound hearing loss and another 60-90 babies are born with partial hearing loss, making hearing loss the most common birth defect. While half of babies with hearing loss exhibit risk factors and receive screening, the other half go undetected. When hearing loss is detected after the first few months, it can significantly delay speech and language development. Early detection before 6 months of age through newborn screening programs and enrollment in early intervention leads to significantly better outcomes for children's speech, reading, and mainstreaming in regular classrooms compared to later identification. Without early intervention, the lifetime costs of special education for a child with hearing loss is approximately $1 million per individual.

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    Every day in the United States, approximately 33 babies are born with profound hearing loss and another 60-90 babies are born with partial hearing loss, making hearing loss the most common birth defect. While half of babies with hearing loss exhibit risk factors and receive screening, the other half go undetected. When hearing loss is detected after the first few months, it can significantly delay speech and language development. Early detection before 6 months of age through newborn screening programs and enrollment in early intervention leads to significantly better outcomes for children's speech, reading, and mainstreaming in regular classrooms compared to later identification. Without early intervention, the lifetime costs of special education for a child with hearing loss is approximately $1 million per individual.

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    Every day in the United States, approximately 33 babies are born with profound hearing loss and another 60-90 babies are born with partial hearing loss, making hearing loss the most common birth defect. While half of babies with hearing loss exhibit risk factors and receive screening, the other half go undetected. When hearing loss is detected after the first few months, it can significantly delay speech and language development. Early detection before 6 months of age through newborn screening programs and enrollment in early intervention leads to significantly better outcomes for children's speech, reading, and mainstreaming in regular classrooms compared to later identification. Without early intervention, the lifetime costs of special education for a child with hearing loss is approximately $1 million per individual.

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    is the Key!

    Early Detection

    Facts on Hearing Loss

    2011
    (www.hearingloss.org)

    Every day in the United States, approximately 1 in 1,000 newborns (or 33 babies every day) is born profoundly deaf with another 2-3 out of 1,000 babies born with partial hearing loss, making hearing loss the number one birth defect in America.

    Annually about 12,000 babies are born in the United States with some form of hearing loss. Half of these infants exhibit a risk factor and are screened meaning that the other half is not tested and identified with hearing loss, ask for a hearing test at birth or within the first month of birth. In actual implementation, risk-based newborn hearing screening programs identify only 10-20% of infants with hearing loss. When hearing loss is detected beyond the first few months of life, the most critical time for stimulating the auditory pathways to hearing centers of the brain may be lost, significantly delaying speech and language development. (www.hearingloss.org) Only 69% of babies are now screened for hearing loss before 1 month of age (up from only 22% in 1998). Of the babies screened, only 56% who needed diagnostic evaluations actually received them by 3 months of age. Moreover, only 53% of those diagnosed with hearing loss were enrolled in early intervention programs by 6 months of age. As a result, these children tend to later re-emerge in our schools special education (IDEA, Part B) programs.
    (www.hearingloss.org)

    Hearing Loss Facts

    IMPAIRMENT

    Hearing

    When children do not receive early intervention, special education for a child with hearing loss costs schools an additional $420,000, and has a lifetime cost of approximately $1 million per individual. (www.hearingloss.org)

    Benefits of Early Hea ring Detection and Interventio n (EHDI)


    Within 4 weeks of birth, infants can be fitted with a hearing device to develop social interaction skills. With appropriate early intervention, children with hearing loss can be mainstreamed in regular elementary and secondary education classrooms. Recent research has concluded that children born with a hearing loss who are identified and given appropriate intervention before 6 months of age demonstrated significantly better speech and reading comprehension than children identified after 6 months of age. (www.hearingloss.org) A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Panel in 1993 recommended hearing screening of all newborns. The consensus report concluded that the best opportunity for achieving this goal is provided by the development of hearing screening programs for newborns in hospital nurseries or in birthing centers, prior to discharge.
    (www.hearingloss.org)

    Hearing Loss Early Detection Resources

    www.agbell.org
    Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Tel: 202-337-5220

    www.hearingloss. org
    Hearing Loss Association of America Tel: 301-657-2248 (V) 2249 (TTY)

    www.DFR.org
    Deafness Research Foundation Tel: 202-289-5850

    Spoken language and education performance can significantly be affected with mild hearing loss, Research indicates that children with unilateral hearing loss (in one ear) are ten times as likely to be held back at least one grade compared to children with normal hearing. Similar academic achievement lags have been reported for children with even slight hearing loss. Children with mild hearing loss miss 25-50% of speech in the classroom and may be inappropriately labeled as having a behavior problem.
    (www.hearingloss.org)

    www.hearing.org
    Hearing Industries Association Tel: 703-684-5744

    Recent clinical studies indicate that early detection of hearing loss followed with appropriate intervention minimizes the need for extensive habilitation during the school years and therefore reduces the burden on the IDEA Part B program. In contrast, a 30-year Gallaudet study revealed that half of the children with hearing loss graduate from high school with a 4th grade reading level or less. (www.hearingloss.org)
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