Utah Admin. Code R398-2-2 - Definitions
(1) "Audiologist" means a state licensed
person where services are provided and has expertise in infant and pediatric
audiology.
(2) "Birth attendant"
means the person or provider that assists with an infant's birth.
(3) "Deaf or Hard of Hearing" means a
dysfunction of the auditory system of any type or degree that is sufficient to
interfere with the acquisition and development of speech and language
skills.
(4) "Department" means the
Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Newborn Hearing Screening: Early
Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program.
(5) "Diagnostic procedures" means audiometric
and medical procedures required to diagnose an infant as deaf or hard of
hearing.
(6) "Early intervention"
means auditory habilitation, enrollment into a formal early intervention
program or both.
(7) "Follow-up"
means appropriate services and procedures relating to the confirmation of
hearing status and appropriate referrals for infants with abnormal or
inconclusive screening or diagnostic results.
(8) "Institution" means a facility licensed
by this state for birthing or receiving babies after birth.
(9) "Lost to follow-up" means infants whom
the program cannot identify through tracking, and who have not completed the
screening, diagnostic, or early intervention referral processes.
(10) "Newborn hearing screening" means the
completion of an objective, physiological test, or battery of tests
administered to determine the infant's hearing status and the need for further
diagnostic testing by an audiologist with expertise in infant and pediatric
audiology or physician with the Department approved instrumentation, protocols,
and pass-fail criteria. Newborn hearing screening includes both the initial
screening and follow-up screening as required after a fail result, this would
include outpatient rescreening if born in hospital.
(11) "Parent" means a natural biological
parent, a stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian, or other legal custodian
of a child.
(12) "Primary care
provider" means the infant's primary medical caregiver.
(13) "Referral" means to direct an infant to
an audiologist or physician for appropriate diagnostic procedures to diagnose,
determine hearing status, and for appropriate early intervention.
(14) "Tracking" means the use of information
about the infant's newborn hearing screening status to ensure the infant
receives timely and appropriate services to complete the screening, diagnostic,
and early intervention referral processes.
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