Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R398 - Family Health, Children with Special Health Care Needs
Rule R398-2 - Newborn Hearing Screening: Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program
Section 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.