As part of the Video Scrapbook, there are 5 videos clips that deal with pediatric audiology issues related to EHDI. Transcripts of each video clip can be found below. Feel free to use any of the video clips in your own presentations.

Transcripts of EHDI Scrapbook Video Clips

Speaker: Patti Freemyer Martin
Video: pa-mart1.mpg

Transcript: One of the things that I think has been really important in the screening process is that we not lose sight of how important the pediatric diagnostic piece is. We have alluded to the fact in the past that once we had EHDI programs in place that were really screening that that would drive the intervention piece. We used to worry that there weren't early interventionists out there to work with this slew of hearing-impaired kids that we would give them. And I was always in the background going, "And, a pediatric audiologist that knows what to do with a two-month old either." I think that is such a critical piece. In my mind, I believe that the bridge from the screening process to the intervention process is a highly competent pediatric audiologist.

Speaker: Patti Freemyer Martin
Video: pa-mart2.mpg

Transcript: I think that we have, that we would be remiss, if we qualify people as pediatric audiologists based on the equipment that they obtain. I have seen a tendency for us at the state level, and even at the regional levels, to try to determine who is a pediatric audiologist by the level of equipment that they have. And while that's certainly a first step and a prerequisite in what I think makes an optimal diagnostic situation, I also think its basically just a foundation and that its not only the equipment that you have, it's the competency with which you can perform the test, the competency and the confidence with which you can interpret those results, and it is probably just as critical, if not more critical, is the ability that you have to convey that information to a family in a manner that is culturally sensitive, appropriate for them and helps them become a part of the process at that very first step.

Speaker: Patti Freemyer Martin
Video: pa-mart3.mpg

Transcript: What I do know is that we can learn to use the equipment. We can figure out how to do a tone-burst ABR We can figure out how to do steady-state evoked potentials even though we didn't do that last year. Because that's our history, we get new equipment and technology every few years so we just assimilate it into the bank of things that we do. What I think we have not had experience doing is how to take good care of families and that's probably going to be the hardest piece for us to acquire.

Speaker: Karl White
Video: pa-white.mpg

Transcript: There's audiologists out there that have to diagnose and provide services to these children. The majority of those people are providing services to adults or to youth. There aren't very many who are providing services to infants and young children. Partly because they, too, were trained ten, fifteen, twenty years ago and at that time we didn't know how to do diagnosis on a three-day old baby. We used to say that a pediatric audiologist was someone who provided services to a five-year old child. Now we're saying pediatric audiologists need to be doing this with a five-day old child. And that's a huge switch.

Speaker: Randi Winston
Video: pa-winst.mpg

Transcript: I think states can help the physicians by developing guidelines for pediatric audiology practice, best practice in pediatric audiology. You can do that collaboratively with the audiologists themselves by identifying who has the appropriate equipment and you can look at national statements such as the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Screening. The state can determine how they want to assist physicians in knowing who those pediatric audiologists are.