Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 333 - OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION › Division 20 - EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION › Section 333-020-0125 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
As used in these rules:
(1) "Advisory committee" means the Early
			 Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Advisory Committee.
(2) "Authority" means the Oregon Health
			 Authority.
(3) "Birthing center"
			 has the same meaning as "freestanding birthing center" in ORS
			 442.015.
(4) "Birthing facility" means the
			 location of a child's birth, including hospital or birthing center.
(5) "Child" means any individual who is under
			 36 months of age.
(6) "Congenital"
			 means present at birth.
(7)
			 "Diagnostic facility" means any facility that conducts pediatric diagnostic
			 hearing evaluations.
(8)
			 "Diagnostic testing" means physiologic and behavioral testing on children to
			 determine the presence or absence, type and degree of a hearing loss, using
			 procedures specified by the Authority, for the purposes of establishing a
			 diagnosis and serving as a basis for initiating intervention.
(9) "Director" means the Director of the
			 Public Health Division within the Oregon Health Authority.
(10) "Early Hearing Detection and
			 Intervention Program" or "EHDI" means the program, within the Public Health
			 Division of the Oregon Health Authority, responsible for the implementation of
			 ORS
			 433.321-433.327.
(11) "Early intervention services" or "EI"
			 means services for children with disabilities from birth until three years of
			 age that are designed to meet the developmental needs of children with
			 disabilities and the needs of the family related to enhancing the child's
			 development, and that are selected in collaboration with the parents and
			 caregivers.
(12) "Early
			 intervention facility" is any public or private educational institution
			 providing early intervention services.
(13) "EI" (or, alternately, "EI/ECSE") means
			 the Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education Program of the Office
			 of Student Services of the Oregon Department of Education. EI/ECSE provides
			 early intervention services under public supervision by personnel qualified in
			 accordance with criteria established by rules of the State Board of Education
			 and in conformity with an individualized family service plan, as defined in ORS
			 343.035.
(14) "Hearing screening" means a
			 physiologically-based test procedure performed on both ears using technologies
			 approved by the Authority, as described in the Hearing Screening Protocol.
(15) "Hearing Screening Protocol"
			 means an Oregon specific protocol based on evidence and best practice for
			 newborn hearing screening, to be implemented by all hearing screening
			 facilities, and available from the Oregon Health Authority.
(16) "Hearing screening registry" (or,
			 alternately, "EHDI Information System") means a database of newborn children
			 and information related to their hearing status, including but not limited to
			 results of hearing screenings, diagnostic testing, and early intervention
			 referrals, designed for the purpose of contacting families and health care
			 providers.
(17) "Hospital" means
			 any health care facility licensed by the State of Oregon and meeting the
			 definition of "hospital" in ORS
			 442.015.
(18) "Mandated facility" means any hospital
			 or birthing center with more than 200 live births per calendar year.
(19) "Newborn" means a child less than one
			 month of age.
(20) "Pass" means a
			 hearing screening result that indicates that a child's hearing meets the pass
			 criteria identified in the Hearing Screening Protocol, provided by the Oregon
			 Health Authority EHDI program, or as determined by national best practice
			 guidelines.
(21) "Private
			 educational institution" means any private institution providing early
			 intervention services as defined in ORS
			 343.035 or the
			 equivalent and which have been accepted for the Office of Student Services of
			 the Oregon Department of Education's "Approved Private Schools" list.
(22) "Public educational
			 institution" means any public educational institution providing early
			 intervention services, as defined in ORS
			 343.035.
(23) "Refer" means a child did not meet the
			 pass criteria defined in these rules and needs more testing to determine the
			 presence or absence of a hearing loss.
(24) "Risk factor" means any one of the risk
			 indicators determined by the Joint Committee for Infant Hearing as being
			 associated with either congenital or delayed-onset hearing loss.
(25) "Screening facility" means any facility
			 that conducts hearing screenings, as defined in these rules.
(26) "Tracking and recall system" (or,
			 alternately, "EHDI Information System") means a database of children and
			 information related to their hearing status designed to identify and contact
			 the parent or guardian of a child for the purposes of assisting in testing and
			 in enrollment of the child in early intervention services.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  433.323
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  433.321-433.327