Towards a National Child Hearing Health Outcomes Registry.
The Australian Government has funded a project to prepare for the creation of a national register of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. A team led by A/Prof Valerie Sung at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne was...
Cochlear implant crisis at Adelaide Children’s Hospital.
Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital has apologised for wrongly programming the cochlear implants of one in four children in its program, causing what are expected to be lifelong development problems. About 30 children at the Women's and Children's Hospital had...
Abbie Teasdale is a talent to watch.
West Australian amateur golfer Abbie Teasdale has proven she is certainly a talent to watch. Teasdale, from Royal Fremantle Golf Club had a remarkable 2022. The 20-year-old is full of confidence after winning her first national event at the Riversdale Cup in...
Voices of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Mob on the NDIS.
A new report aims to understand what helps, and what makes it hard for First Nations NDIS participants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, to use their National Disability Insurance plans in a way that meets their needs and aspirations. Using participants’ own language...
Innovative hearing test for people with dementia.
University of Queensland researchers have adapted an internationally used test that screens patients for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, to make it suitable for people with hearing loss. Professor Piers Dawes from UQ's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences...
Jacqueline: I aspire to be an advocate for others.
Jacqueline Drexler says “I have never known ‘normal’ hearing. All I know are the sounds I hear through my hearing devices.” “Since infancy, I wore hearing aids. In 2017, I underwent cochlear implant surgery. I am a bimodal user, wearing a hearing aid in one ear and a...