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10/24/2016  |   12:45 PM - 1:45 PM   |  BGPOP Building 402/403/404

Social Justice: The Right to Hearing Health Care for All!

Access to hearing health care is not now a “right” for children or adults in many parts of the world. Newborn hearing screening has provided a vehicle to improve hearing health care for people in some remote and rural islands. This presentation will describe how audiological diagnostic services, ENT medical and surgical services, and intervention for children with various special needs are being achieved to create greater social justice in some islands in the Pacific.

• Learn about implementing newborn hearing screening in remote areas
• Understand obstacles to implementing newborn hearing screening
• Describe cultural practices that imair hearing health in remote locations

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Jean Johnson (POC,Primary Presenter), University of Hawaii, jeanj@hawaii.edu;
Dr. Jean Johnson has worked in the Pacific providing audiological services for more than four decades. She has been involved in newborn hearing screening since its earliest beginnings. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator for EHDI programs in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Territory of American Samoa. In 2013 she received the Antonia Braxon Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence.

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