- Includes a variety of services provided to infants with hearing loss and their families, such as:
- Service coordination
- Family training
- Counseling
- Home visits from early intervention providers
- Sign language and cued language instruction
- Hearing/audiology
- Speech-language pathology
- Assistive technology devices
- Is designed to help infants with hearing loss develop age-appropriate communication skills
- Is supported by research showing that infants with hearing loss who start intervention by 6 months of age are less likely to have developmental delays
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Contact your County Family Resources Coordinator (FRC) listed in the Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) Contact Directory to learn more about early intervention services. |
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The Resource Notebook for Families of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing has information about your child's hearing loss, communication options, early intervention services and stories from other parents. This resource is available in the following languages: |
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Would you like to learn American Sign Language (ASL)? If you have a child who is deaf or hard of hearing who is under 36 months of age, visit www.infanthearing.org/signit to get free access to an innovative on-line curriculum to learn ASL. |
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The Hear to Learn website is an interactive resource, in English and Spanish, for parents and professionals to support spoken language development. Visit www.heartolearn.org for more information. |
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The Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) program connects families of children with hearing loss ages birth to 3 with early intervention services in Washington State. |
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See the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management's Communicate With Your Child Brochure for information about communication and hearing technology options available for infants with hearing loss. This resource is available in the following languages: |
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Hands & Voices: Family Leadership in Language & Learning Resource Toolbox Our goal is to ensure that EHDI programs, supported by federal funding in the United States, use research-based concepts known to support families, parents and caregivers of deaf or hard of hearing babies, toddlers and young children identified through newborn hearing screening. We want what you want: for "our kids" to reach optimal language, literacy and social-emotional development. |
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Email EHDDI at ehddi2@doh.wa.gov
Or call 1-888-WAEHDDI (1-888-923-4334)