Physicians
As a medical provider, you are a key part of the infant’s care team and of Oklahoma Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI). You play an important role in monitoring newborn hearing screening results and ensuring appropriate follow-up, whether that be an outpatient hearing screening or a diagnostic hearing evaluation, is completed in a timely manner.
Regardless of newborn hearing screening results, medical providers should review every infant’s medical and family history for known risk factors for late onset hearing loss. If risk factors are present, the family should be referred to a pediatric audiologist for routine hearing evaluations.
The goal of Oklahoma EHDI is to ensure all children birth to 3 years of age with hearing loss receive timely intervention to improve communication, education, and over all development. To accomplish this goal Oklahoma uses the 1-3-6 guideline.
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Newborn Hearing Screening Program
123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Suite 1702
Oklahoma City, OK 73102-6406
Phone: (405) 426-8309
Fax: (405) 900-7554
E-Mail: OSDH.newbornhearing@health.ok.gov
