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10/24/2016  |   10:30 AM - 11:30 AM   |  BGPOP Building 402/403/404

Day Care Center Hearing Screening of Davao City

Davao City made history as one of the earliest cities to mandate Newborn Hearing Screening for babies delivered in the City. But some pitfalls of the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program has frustrated us: (1) Not all hospital and lying-in clinics possess their own hearing screener; (2) lack of a hospital screener led to relying on at third-party service provider, which made screening it even more inaccessible to most newborn deliveries in the country; (3) the steep pricing of hearing aids; (4) lack of a government assistance program for at least temporary acquisition of hearing aids for babies diagnosed with middle ear effusion; (5) the limited hearing centers that offer these hearing aids; (6) the scarcity of audiologists in the country; (7) the excessively high cost of Auditory Brainstem Response for confirmatory diagnosis of cochlear or central auditory pathway hearing loss and the unavailability of diagnostic and intervention hearing facility that offers such confirmatory test; (8) the lack of a cheaper alternative to Auditory Brainstem Response such as combined DPOAE Audiogram plus a Tympanometry in the recommended algorithm of the screening protocol; (9) lack of governing body that standardizes the practice of audiometry in the Philippines; and finally (10) the increasing number of “defaulters: or dropouts as these pitfalls are not properly addressed and with the poor understanding of the general public. These pitfalls hold down a supposedly purposeful program, which the Advocacy Program of the PSOHNS Southern Mindanao promises to solve. The program aims to provide access to hearing testing in the community level and at the same time be able to track defaulters or drop-outs from the screening programs performed in the hospital level. With its ability to track and identify children with possible hearing losses that may limit their intellectual, emotional, social, speech, and language development, the program also promises to enhance Republic Act 9709.

• To enhance the Republic Act 9709 or the Universal Hearing Screening Program and Intervention Act by tracking children in their formative language development years.
• To fulfill the pitfalls of the UNHSP.
• To enjoin LGU with program that promotes overall hearing health awareness.

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Bendatu Dalandag (POC,Primary Presenter,Author), PSO HNS Southern Mindanao Chapter, doc_bendatu@yahoo.com;
Fellow, Philippine Society of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Society, 2011 Member, Hearing International, 2013 Certified Trainer, Newborn Hearing Screening Reference Center for Category A Personnel, 2015