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ECHO Project Comes to Virginia!

The Early Childhood Hearing Outreach Project (ECHO), a program to identify and address early hearing loss in young children, is being piloted in five Early Head Start programs this year.

The pilot programs receive state-of-the-art audiological equipment and training on how to use it.  The training team is made up of audiologists from around the State,  the VAHSA Executive Director, a representative from an EHS program, and a representative from the Virginia Department of Health.

Programs in the pilot are:  CDR (Southeast Region), Kids Central (Southwest Region), Orange (Northwest Region), Fairfax and Northern Virginia Family Services (Northeast Region). 

During this pilot year, the team will be looking at ways to expand and sustain this project.

Learn more about the pilot (PPT, 3.5 MB)

First Successful Conference

In August, Early Head Start professionals across Virginia met for the first annual conference designed specifically for them. It was extremely successful.

Check out the presentations from our Key speakers.

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