Early Hearing Detection and Intervention-Pediatric Audiology Links to Services EHDI-PALS: Building a National Facility Database

Objectives: To create a searchable web-based national audiology facility
directory using a standardized survey, so parents and providers could
identify which facilities had capacity to provide appropriate services
based on child’s age.
Design: An Early Hearing Detection and Intervention-Pediatric Audiology
Links to Services expert panel was convened to create a survey to collect
audiology facility information. Professional practice documents were
reviewed, a survey was designed to collect pertinent test protocols of
each audiology facility, and a standard of care template was created to
cross-check survey answers. Audiology facility information across the
United States was collected and compiled into a directory structured and
displayed in an interactive website, ehdipals.org.