211.645 Definitions for KRS 211.647 and 216.2970.
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As used in KRS 211.647 and 216.2970, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1)"Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(2)"Office" means the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs;
(3)"Permanent childhood hearing loss" means a hearing deficit identified in infancy or
childhood which prevents the acquisition of speech and language through normal
channels;
(4)"Auditory screening report" means a written evaluation of an auditory screening as
required under KRS 216.2970; and
(5)"Infant at high risk for late onset, progressive hearing loss, or both" means a child at
birth who is at a higher risk than normal of becoming deaf or hard of hearing or
having progressively worsening hearing due to one
(1)or more of the following
factors:
(a)Family history of a congenital hearing loss;
(b)Rubella or virus during pregnancy;
(c)Neonatal intensive care of more than five
(5)days;
(d)Below-normal birth weight;
(e)Neonatal intensive care, regardless of the number of days, for any of the
following conditions:
1. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO);
2. Assisted ventilation;
3. Exposure to ototoxic medications, including but not limited to
gentramycin and tobramycin, or loop diuretics, including but not limited
to furosemide;
4. Hyperbilirubinemia that requires 1n exchange transfusion;
5. Syndromes associated with hearing loss and progressive or late onset
hearing loss, including but not limited to neurofibromatosis,
osteopetrosis, and Usher, Waardenburg, Alport, Pendred, and Jervell and
Lange-Nielson Syndromes;
6. Congenital ear, nose, or throat anomalies, including but not limited to
those involving the pinna, ear canal, ear tags, ear pits, and temporal
bone; or
7. Culture-positive postnatal infections associated with sensorineural
hearing loss, including but not limited to confirmed bacterial and viral
meningitis;
(f)An auditory screening indicating a hearing loss; or
(g)Any other factor identified by the American Medical Association the
American Academy of Pediatrics, or the American Academy of
Otolaryngology as a cause of late onset or progressive hearing loss.