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"hard to reach" children and their families
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What successful activities is your state or community using to find and identify eligible children who are part of “hard to reach” families – e.g., those who are homeless or highly mobile, living in extreme poverty, immigrants with limited English proficiency, teen parents, etc?
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Coordination between EHDI and Part C programs -- identification and intervention
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What are barriers that you're seeing in your states to successful coordination between the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs and Part C? What are some strategies your states are using to address these barriers?
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Public Awareness/Child Find
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What are effective public awareness/child find activities that are being conducted in your community or state? How have you evaluated the effectiveness of the activities that you are doing?
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Changes in eligibility
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What is your experience with the potential effects of changing (either narrowing or expanding) a state’s criteria for eligibility? For example, does narrowing the criteria for eligibility really reduce costs to the Part C system, or does it expand costs because the children identified and...
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Screening prior to eligibility evaluation
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Is your community or state screening some or all referred children prior to their eligibility evaluation? If so, how has this been framed in relation to procedural safeguards and having a consistent policy for all referrals? What screening tools are being used? How well are they working?
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follow-up
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What mechanisms are being used in your state or community to follow-up with families after referral and with referral sources, especially physicians, once a child has been evaluated?
