Members and friends of Deafness Forum of Australia are invited to attend the annual general meeting conducted via video conference in early 2021, date and time to be announced after Christmas. The business of the meeting: accept the minutes of the previous AGM accept the annual report, auditor’s report and annual financial statements appoint a […]
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The Government has begun a major review of the Hearing Services Program (HSP). The aim of the HSP is to reduce the incidence and consequences of avoidable hearing loss in the Australian community by providing access to high quality hearing services and devices. The HSP has two parts:– The Voucher Scheme provides free hearing aids […]
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Button batteries are lurking everywhere in your home — hearing aids, remote controls, kitchen scales, birthday cards, children’s toys and countless other products. If swallowed, a button battery can become stuck in a child’s throat and result in catastrophic injuries and even death. Insertion of button batteries into body orifices such as ears and noses […]
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Like all hearing people in North-East Arnhem land, the head of the local school at Yirrkala grew up using sign language as much as she spoke – in the same way hearing and non-hearing Indigenous people in northern Australia had communicated for 60,000 years. “It was an everyday thing,” said co-principal of Yirrkala School, Merrikiyawuy […]
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The Commonwealth Government’s new budget, released on 6 October 2020, will commit $21million in the next 5 years to implement some of the key actions listed in the national Roadmap for Hearing Health in Australia. $5million for a public hearing health awareness and prevention campaign $7million for research into interventions to support vulnerable people $5million […]
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As part of the 2018–19 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged seven years and over across Australia participated in a voluntary hearing test. The independent hearing test found more than 43 per cent people had a hearing impairment in at least one ear on the day […]
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