Our Community Advisers are groups of people representing our member organisations and others by invitation who have particular interests and expertise in hearing health, disability and wellbeing topics.
The groups come together whenever issues arise, and new groups are formed when they are needed. The current advisory groups include:
National Disability Insurance Scheme Citizen Advisory Group
The National Disability Insurance Scheme Parents Advisory Group
Members are parents or guardians of children under the age of 18 who are participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (the NDIS). This includes children who are supported under the NDIS Early Intervention Program.
Meeting every two months online, the advisory group provides advice on the efficacy of existing NDIS processes and systems in supporting children who are D/deaf or have hearing loss, contributing to our advocacy work in this area.
From time to time, we may have vacancies in this group. If you are interested in joining this group, please reach out to Deafness Forum Australia’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, at info@deafnessforum.org.au
Families and Children advisory group
Concerned with:
- Proper management and protections for device data logging
- Genetic testing
- Newborn hearing screening
Hearing Services Program advisory group
Concerned with practical ideas for actions to optimise the Australian Government Hearing Services program to benefit vulnerable groups in the Australian community.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the criminal justice system advisory group
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are considerably over-represented in police custody, in both the juvenile and criminal justice systems and are jailed at 13 times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians. Our justice system remains ineffective in addressing these complex needs and vulnerabilities.
Loops and telecoils working group
Hearing Loss Prevention working group