Members and friends, we wanted to give you a report on how Deafness Forum is operating in this current health emergency. We will keep our communication channels open but we can’t know the effect of increased demand on Australia’s NBN. Our IT provider has plans in place to fix any bugs that might occur. Our […]
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The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has suspended its public hearings, due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. The Commission has postponed the following hearings- • Education scheduled for next week in Brisbane • Justice scheduled for April in Brisbane • First Nations People with disability […]
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CoronaVirus – ways to prepare and stay safe. http://bit.ly/32OIHbi This is an Easy Read guide. Easy Read is a method of presenting written English to make it easier to understand for people with learning difficulties or who have another first language. It is also useful for the general community in presenting information that has technical […]
Almost 60 per cent of respondents to a national survey say their partner or parent doesn’t believe they have a hearing problem – or they think they’re coping fine. For the over 50s, almost 75 per cent of those who have a family member who hasn’t had a hearing check say it’s likely due to […]
The first World Report on Hearing – by the World Health Organisation (WHO) – will be released on 17 May 2020. Deafness Forum is one of the members of a WHO working party to promote the World Hearing Report,. The material on this page is to help you to understand the purpose of the Report […]
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network commissioned research into the quality of live captions on Free-to-Air TV. This was after receiving feedback from Deafness Forum and consumers about the quality of live captions on TV. Researchers from the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University analysed 20 hours of programming across the five main channels […]
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