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Early Intervention in a Developing Country

Early intervention in South Africa is focused on provision of screening and diagnostic services, with the audiologist as the gatekeeper for coordination of necessary services to ensure service provision. With the international focus on informed choice and early intervention best practice there was recognition of the importance of holistic family-centred early intervention services for deaf children in South Africa. The HI HOPES Early Intervention programme has provided home-based, family centred early intervention services to families of deaf children since 2006 and has the largest database on deaf families in Africa. A profile of deaf families in a developing country context including provision of early screening, age of identification, causes of hearing loss, socioeconomic status, and prevalence of additional disabilities will be presented. The correlation of factors such as maternal education, healthcare sector (public or private health)and the occurrence of risk factors and how they relate to age of identification of hearing loss will be discussed. This will then be related to the implications for a developing country context and how early identification and intervention services can be improved

• Provide a profile of deaf families in a developing country context
• Factors that have an effect on age of identification of hearing loss in a developing country
• Formulation of ideas on how early detection and intervention services can be improved in a developing country

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Claudine Storbeck (Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Wits University, claudine.storbeck@gmail.com;
Prof Claudine Storbeck is the Director of The Centre for Deaf Studies, which she founded 21 years ago at The University of the Witwatersrand. The CFDS offers a host of research, post-graduate education & training opportunities in Deaf Education and Deaf Studies in South Africa, Africa and abroad. In her passion to support families of deaf and hard of hearing infants, Claudine founded the HI HOPES early intervention programme in 2006. In addition to deaf infants, this home-based, family-centred early intervention programme now also supports families of deafblind & developmentally delayed infants. Claudine played a core role in the groundbreaking launch of Netcare’s Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in June 2019. She is a fluent user of South African Sign Language, has been married for 26 years and has 2 gorgeous teenage sons.

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Selvarani Moodley (POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Wits University, selvarani.moodley@wits.ac.za;
Dr Selvarani Moodley is a dual qualified speech language therapist and audiologist, with a PhD focusing on audiology. Her doctoral research was in the area of paediatric diagnostic audiology and data management, with 5 articles currently published from this research. Selvarani works as a researcher and national project manager for the HI HOPES Early Intervention programme at the Centre for Deaf Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.

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