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Make Sure Your Baby Can Hear the Sounds of Texas (brochure to give to parents)
Hearing Checklist- English (brochure to give to parents)
Hearing Checklist- Spanish (brochure to give to parents)
Did Not Pass - English (brochure to give to parents)
Did Not Pass - Spanish (brochure to give to parents)

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Hearing Checklist for Professionals English/En Español
Follow-up Report Form (last update on 11/15/11)
The passage of HB411 during the 82nd Legislative Regular Session changed newborn hearing screening in birthing facilities from an “opt-in” to an “opt-out” screening process. This means that a newborn will receive the hearing screening unless the family decides to decline the screening. The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission, in collaboration with the DSHS, prescribed a form to document a parent's decision to decline the newborn hearing screening. The form is to be used only when a family declines the hearing screening. This form should not be included within the regular admission paperwork that a family signs. DSHS is posting the form to the Newborn Hearing Website here:

    NEW !!    Newborn Hearing Screening Refusal Form (English)

    RECHAZO DE LAS PRUEBAS AUDITIVAS A RECIÉN NACIDOS

Information for All Professionals

Certification Requirements for Birth Facilities

Birth Facility Certification Requirements for Newborn Hearing Screening

Information for Audiologists and Physicians

Reimbursement Rates Established for Some Otology and Audiometry Services Procedure Codes Effective July 1, 2011. Click here for more information.
Effective September 1, 2009, hearing services provided through the PACT program at DSHS will be transferred to the Medicaid program. Link here for additional information.
Texas Genetic Providers
When Does a Child Need Genetic Services?
Audiologic Evaluation Protocol for Newborns - This information is for audiologists who do the audiologic evaluation on newborns and infants who have failed a hearing screen. The protocol described here was created through the efforts of thirty (30) people whose areas of expertise are pediatric audiology or early intervention; these people were identified in a statewide survey to audiologists. The protocol was developed in a consensus building process to address how we felt we should evaluate a very young infant in order to be comfortable fitting that infant with appropriate amplification. Not everyone will want to test babies and fit them with amplification, but those who do so will have to have a high level of expertise in physiological assessment.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2004). Guidelines for the Audiologic Assessment of Children From Birth to 5 Years of Age [Guidelines]. Available from www.asha.org/policy.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (2006). Roles, Knowledge, and Skills: Audiologists Providing Clinical Services to Infants and Young Children Birth to 5 Years of Age [Knowledge and Skills]. Available from www.asha.org/policy.

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