Supporting all Australians who are deaf or hard of hearing to live well in the community. Australia’s first Hearing Health Roadmap has been created to improve the lives of the millions of Australians affected by hearing loss. The Roadmap will spearhead a coordinated national effort to improve hearing health. Eight key priorities identified include a […]
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It is always a good time to promote better hospital communication, and mechanisms should be in place to ensure it. But it doesn’t happen. After surgery, a doctor uses unfamiliar terminology in an unfamiliar accent to describe what to do next while looking at an electronic medical record. The doctor’s voice competes with noisy machines […]
A new report aims to understand what helps, and what makes it hard for First Nations NDIS participants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, to use their National Disability Insurance plans in a way that meets their needs and aspirations. Using participants’ own language and modes of communication, Jody Barney, a Deaf Birri-Gubba and […]
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Captions is the text version of speech and other sounds in traditional audio-visual media such as films, television, DVDs and online videos. Captions are provided to enhance audio content and benefit people: with hearing difficulties with learning difficulties with diverse learning styles who experience difficulty accessing online videos for reasons related to issues with their […]
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My experience with hearing loss support shows ‘fixing’ Labor’s NDIS will be no easy feat By Annabel Hennessy writing for The West Australian I was 21 and just about to graduate from university when I was first diagnosed as hearing impaired. When he looked at the scores from my hearing test, the audiologist said he […]
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I thought needing captions meant I was getting old. Turns out it is all the rage among the kids. By Arwa Mahdawi writing for The Guardian Apparently, four out of five viewers between 18 and 25 put subtitles (captions) on – but it is not for the reasons you might think. First, there were the creaky […]
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