Deafness Forum Australia hosted a roundtable meeting with a select group of influential stakeholders with a shared aim of helping to address the ear care and hearing health disparities in First Nations communities. The Roundtable, in March 2024 in Canberra, was facilitated by Prof Kelvin Kong AM, an eminent ear, nose and throat surgeon and […]
Read more about First Nations Roundtable – official communique.
The Deafness Forum board formed a working group in March 2023 to look into modernising the organisation’s Constitution in line with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission model. These proposed changes will be presented to the Members for a vote at a meeting on 1 May 2024. The changes are not designed to alter the […]
The spiralling costs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) threaten its sustainability. Implementing changes through a proposed Bill (law) is crucial to ensure its future. The revised NDIS, or NDIS 2.0 as it is sometimes called, aims to control cost growth, standardise funding amounts, and specify eligibility for lifelong assistance. Key changes under the […]
It hasn’t been an easy road for Tülay and her two children, Cihan and Hilal* from Türkiye. Both children had cochlear implants fitted at a young age. When they broke, Tülay and her husband had no money to replace them. For more than two years, the children couldn’t hear, had trouble learning, and became distant from […]
Cancer survivors have a significantly higher prevalence of hearing loss than the general population. “We expected that cancer survivors would have a higher burden of hearing loss, but we are still surprised to see that 40% of cancer survivors reported troublesome hearing and had audiometry-confirmed speech-frequency hearing loss,” said researcher Qian Wang, assistant professor at […]
Kassy and Chontae Hayden are two proud Ballardong (Noongar) and Badimaya (Yamatji) sisters from Perth, whose family comes from a small country town called Kellerberrin and Merriden. They grew up surrounded by family and the bush on a farm just shy of a town called Westonia, until their family moved to Perth. Kassy graduated from […]
Read more about Hayden sisters know how important Ear Health is to Aboriginal families.