Karl White

Dr. White is a Professor of Psychology at Utah State University and the founding Director of the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM). Dr. White has published extensively about the issues and evidence related to implementing and improving the efficacy of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs.  Projects currently underway at NCHAM are focused on developing more effective hearing screening and intervention programs through research, improving public health information systems, training and technical assistance, and information dissemination. More about NCHAM activities in these areas are available at www.infanthearing.org.

Prior to his work at NCHAM, Dr. White was the Director of Research and Development at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Persons with Disabilities, and the Director of the Early Intervention Research Institute at Utah State University.  From 1984 to 1985, he served as a Congressional Science Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and worked as a staff member for the Subcommittee on the Handicapped in the United States Senate where he was responsible for the staff work related to the creation of the Commission on Education of the Deaf and the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986.He also serves on many national and international advisory groups for organizations such as the World Health Organization, United States Department of Health and Human Services, March of Dimes, the American College of Medical Genetics, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.