Resources: New to Hearing Loss
ABOUT EHDI
HRSA's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs enable states, territories, families, and providers to develop complete and coordinated systems of care. The program aims to ensure that newborns, infants, and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing are identified and get the care they need when they need it. Early involvement can help these children meet age-appropriate language, social, and developmental milestones.
Across the United States and its territories, EHDI supports efforts to:
- Develop early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) systems.
- Recruit, educate, and train staff and health care providers with current knowledge, evidence-based practices, and national EHDI system goals.
- Ensure families have access to information that is accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date, and evidence-based to allow families to make important decisions for their children in a timely manner, including decisions with respect to the full range of assistive hearing technologies and communication modalities.
- Establish and foster family-to-family and deaf and hard of hearing consumer-to-family supports that are important after a child has been identified as deaf or hard of hearing.
View the regional map of audiologists across the state of South Carolina.
Auditory neuropathy (also referred to as auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder or
ANSD) is a hearing disorder where the inner ear successfully detects the sound, but has
a problem with sending the sound from the ear to the brain.
An easy to understand guide to reading an Audiogram.
Some possible signs of hearing loss in an infant or toddler.
Communication Cards - Birth through 12 Months
Communication Cards with milestones, CDC guidelines, and more!
Some common similarities between ADHD and Hearing Loss.
What problems do children with Single-Sided Deafness (SSD) experience?
More Resources for Families!
- Choosing a childcare provider
- You can track what your baby is doing at https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/your-babys-hearing-and-communicative-development-checklist and/or download this app.
An introductory guide into microtia and atresia.
A tip sheet about progressive hearing loss diagnosis.
Visit the South Carolina State EHDI Page.