Nov 06 2012 In this presentation for Deaf Awareness Week,
Signing Time’s Rachel Coleman talks about her compelling journey
that began when she learned that her daughter, Leah, was deaf.
This video was produced by the National Center for Hearing
Assessment and Management (NCHAM – pronounced “en-cham”) at Utah
State University. The goal of NCHAM is to ensure that all
infants and toddlers with hearing loss are identified as early
as possible and provided with timely and appropriate
audiological, educational, and medical intervention. NCHAM’s
research, training, and technical assistance activities
contribute to this goal by working to achieve the following
objectives: - Every child born with a hearing loss is identified
before 3 months of age and provided with timely and appropriate
intervention by 6 months of age. - Every family of an infant
with hearing loss receives culturally-competent family support
as desired. - All newborns have a “medical home.” - State
Departments of Health have effective newborn hearing