NCHAM Newborn Hearing Screening

The NCHAM Newborn Hearing Screening Knowledge & Practice website is an authoritative, national resource center platform housed at Utah State University and funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). Functioning as the primary technical assistance center for Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs, NCHAM provides evidence-based guidelines, clinical protocols, and screening frameworks for universal newborn hearing screening. The platform details electrophysiological assessment methodologies—primarily Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) and Automated Auditory Brainstem Response (AABR)—designed to identify congenital and early-onset hearing loss before one month of age. It covers the full 1-3-6 EHDI benchmark framework: screening by 1 month, diagnostic audiological evaluation by 3 months, and enrollment in early intervention by 6 months. Additionally, the hub provides program evaluation tools, state tracking system guidelines, parent support resources, and medical home integration frameworks. Serving as an essential open educational resource, this portal delivers primary clinical screening protocols, public health tracking models, and pediatric audiology training materials for undergraduate and postgraduate students, clinical audiologists, pediatricians, neonatologists, speech-language pathologists, and public health officials studying pediatric hearing loss, early intervention, and maternal-child health policy.