Legislation
Requires all acute care hospitals that are approved for California Children's Services funding (70% of the state's live births) to offer a hearing screening test to all children born there. Screening to use procedures approved by the Department of Health. Establishes a system of early hearing detection and intervention centers to assist hospitals, maintain a database, and ensure appropriate follow-up. Requires parents of children diagnosed with hearing loss be given information about community resources and services and requires the Department of Health to conduct community outreach. Requires hospitals and providers of audiological diagnosis and follow-up to provide data to a state reporting and tracking system.
Citation: Cal Health & Saf Code 124115 through 124120.5
Web Resources
California Latino Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc.
To promote leadership, advocacy, education, and to address the needs of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Latino Community. http://www.deafvision.net/clc/
California Department of Education (CDE)
The mission of the California Department of Education is to provide leadership, assistance, oversight and resources so that every Californian has access to an education that meets world-class standards.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/index.asp
California School for the Deaf, Fremont
The mission of the California School for the Deaf is to offer quality educational programs in a positive learning environment which acknowledges Deaf students and adults as culturally and linguistically distinct. It provides its students with a core curriculum which emphasizes competence in American Sign Language and English, guarantees full communication access, enhances self- esteem, and prepares them to function effectively in a diverse and technologically changing society. http://www.csdf.k12.ca.us
California Speech-Language-Hearing Association
A professional organization of speech-language pathologists and audiologists advancing services to children and adults with communication and related disorders. CSHA is chartered under California law as a non-profit corporation and qualified by federal IRS as a 501(c)(6) organization for tax-exemption purposes. http://www.caspeechhearing.org/
California NICHCY Resources
From the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) http://www.nichcy.org/stateshe/ca.htm
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc. (DREDF)
Objectives: To help parents of children with disabilities secure the educational and related services that state and federal laws guarantee to their children; monitor implementation of and compliance with the laws and to shape education public policy; and extend and expand the concept of integration mandated under the IDEA and to halt the abuse of children with severe disabilities in public schools. http://www.dredf.org/parent.html
Easter Seal Society of Southern California
Easter Seals Southern California is a non-profit organization that provides programs and services to promote equality, dignity and independence for children and adults with disabilities. http://www.essc.org/
Hearing Society for the Bay Area, Inc.
The HIP program reaches out to deaf and hard-of-hearing children, youth, young adults and their families from the northern San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.deafkids.org/hearingsoc.html
Jewish Deaf Community Center
JDCC promotes individual growth, social awareness, productivity and equality, by empowering deaf and hard of hearing persons to be full participants in the Jewish community at large. http://www.jdcc.org/
IMPACT
IMPACT is a California statewide all-volunteer, non-profit organization of parents, teachers and professionals serving deaf and hard-of-hearing children. http://www.deafkids.org/
Matrix Parent Network and Resource Center
Matrix is a private non-profit organization founded in 1983 to fill the need for parent support for families of children with special needs in the North Bay. Matrix has grown from a strictly local volunteer effort to the vital organization that it is today with local, regional, and national affiliations. Matrix provides services to families primarily in Marin, Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties. http://www.matrixparents.org/
Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired (California)
Deaf children can learn to talk. Oralingua is a place that helps that happen. http://www.oralingua.org/
Parents Helping Parents (PHP)
Parents Helping Parents,Meeting children's special needs through parents helping parents since 1976. Mission: Helping children with special needs receive the resources, love, hope, respect, health care, education and other services they need to achieve their full potential by providing them with strong families and dedicated professionals to serve them. http://www.php.com/
University Affiliated Program California at the Children's Hospital, Los Angeles
The University of Southern California's University Affiliated Program at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (USC UAP) has as its purpose to assure that individuals with developmental disabilities and their families have access to services, supports and other assistance and opportunities which promote independence, productivity and inclusion into the community. http://www.usc.edu/hsc/ihp/uap/#list
