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...
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
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...
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...
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...
One of the most common misconceptions about sign language is that it’s the same wherever you go. That’s not the case. In fact, there are somewhere between 138 and 300 different types of sign language used throughout the world today. New sign languages frequently...