TEHDI - Resources for Healthcare Providers

Order/Download TEHDI Brochures - Texas Healthsteps Resource Catalog

Parents (Select Newborn Hearing Screening)

• Make Sure Your Baby Can Hear the Sounds of Texas
• Hearing Checklist- English
• Hearing Checklist- Spanish
• Did Not Pass - English
• Did Not Pass - Spanish

Professionals

• Information Health Professionals Need to Know (medical home)
• Practitioner's Guide: 1-3-6 Month Process for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention
• TEHDI FAQs
• Just in Time Guide for Primary Care Physicians
• Just in Time Guide for Audiologists
• Information for Midwives

Training

• TEHDI Training Page

Forms

• Hearing Checklist for Professionals English/Spanish
• 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.  

      Newborn Hearing Screening Refusal Form (English)

     (Spanish) Rechazo de Las Pruebas Auditivas a Recien Nacidos

Additional Information

• Service Providers
• Pediatric Amplification Protocol
• Technologies That Meet Requirements for Newborn Hearing Screening
• Reimbursement for Newborn Hearing Screening in Texas
• Rules and Law
• Sample Procedures Manual for Newborn Hearing Screening Programs
• Related Sites

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.
• Texas Genetic Providers
• When Does a Child Need Genetic Services?
• Audiologic Evaluation Protocol for Newborns - Information for audiologists who conduct the evaluation on newborns and infants with a failed hearing screen. The protocol 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 to 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 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 Five Years of Age.

External links to other sites are intended to be informational and do not have the endorsement of the Texas Department of State Health Services. These sites may also not be accessible to people with visual impairment.