Resources for Parents
Click on any of the below links to print a copy or read online.
Wisconsin Newborn Screening Fact Sheets
These fact sheets, published by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services in collaboration with the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, offer an overview of screening and easily explain the details of hearing, heart, and blood screening in English, Spanish, or Hmong.
- Wisconsin Newborn Screening: Three Parts to a Healthy Start, P-01273
- Wisconsin Newborn Blood Screening, P-40125
- Wisconsin Newborn Hearing Screening, P-44512
- Wisconsin Newborn Heart Screening, P-01105
Newbornscreening.Info Parents’ Fact Sheets
Disease-specific Brochures
Hemoglobinopathies
Parents Guide to Sickle Cell Trait
(Español) Carácter De Células Falciformes
Parents Guide to Hemoglobin C Trait
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Fact Sheet
Severe Combined Immune Deficiency
Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID)
Additional links you might find useful
For the Plain Community:
WI Department of Health Services – Newborn Screening
Wisconsin Hospital Association’s CheckPoint Birth Measures Report to see how quickly hospitals send specimen cards to the Wisconsin Newborn Screening Laboratory