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211.645 Definitions for KRS 211.647 and 211.2970.
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) "Commission" means the Commission 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 an 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.
Effective:June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 102, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2009. -Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 365, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 308, sec. 9, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky.
Acts ch. 426, sec. 307, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch.
405, sec. 75, effective July 15, 1994. Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 144, sec.
12, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 369, sec. 37, effective
July 13, 1990. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 489, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1986.
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