World Hearing Day and Hearing Awareness Week in Australia
Visit www.worldhearingday.org.au or www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au. with the financial support of Hearing Australia. Take the Hear&Now 2020 Challenge. On WORLD HEARING DAY 3 March 2020 we identify the areas that need big improvements to make the community accessible for people with hearing difficulties and who communicate in sign language. Healthcare appointments with poor hearing access When it is […]
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Study confirms need for early hearing loss treatment in children
Research by the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL), the research division of Hearing Australia, has established that the earlier a child with hearing loss can be fitted with a hearing aid or cochlear implant, the better the outcomes. Results from NAL’s Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study show that early fitting of hearing […]
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Open captioned movies in cinemas across Australia
Open Captions Australia has a new website as a one-stop-shop promoting Open Captioned movies in cinemas across Australia, as well as general community events and more. Website: www.opencaptions.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/OCAustralia
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Audiology at the Cutting Edge: Shaping Your Future
The Audiology Australia 2020 Conference in Perth, ‘Audiology at the Cutting Edge: Shaping Your Future’ will bring audiologists and other professionals together to forge a proactive and positive approach to the future, by sharing and expanding current knowledge, skills and expertise to meet the clinical and operational demands facing audiology. https://auda2020conference.asn.au/
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Help fix Disability Royal Commission submission form
To help people provide information to the Disability Royal Commission* a submission form was designed and released last year. But it soon became clear to Deafness Forum and others that the submission form had problems: the questions were too long and complicated not all questions aligned with best trauma-informed practice the ordering of the questions […]
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Parents vocal about hearing loss
Beth Leipholtz writes, Our three-month-old baby Cooper is profoundly deaf. When I heard that for the first time, when it became real to us, I was terrified. In retrospect, I think much of that fear stemmed from my lack of knowledge. I didn’t know what that diagnosis meant for the rest of his life. This […]
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