Lowest Income groups excluded from Government program.
Hearing loss affects communication and social engagement and limits educational and employment opportunities. Effective treatment for hearing loss is available in the form of communication training (for example, lipreading and auditory training), hearing aids and...
Master Lipreading to Unlock Silent Conversations.
You can access a free preview of our Read Our Lips Australia online lipreading course to see what it is all about. Read Our Lips Australia is a self-paced online learning platform that is dedicated to supporting those with hearing loss and their families, by improving...
Will Audiology become a Registered Profession?
State and Territory Health Ministers have agreed to consider options for regulating the audiology profession in the future, including regulation under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. Audiology is currently a self-regulating profession. Occupational...
Why are we still talking about aged ‘care’?
The new Aged Care Act, which will come into effect later this year, states that one of its objectives is to assist individuals accessing funded aged care services to live active, self-determined, and meaningful lives. But how are we going to achieve this, while we...
First Nations Roundtable – official communique.
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...
Amplifying the global issue of hearing loss.
Hearing loss, which currently affects 20% of the global population, has risen from the 11th leading cause of years lived with disability in 2010 to currently being the third leading cause. A complex web of determining factors impacts hearing at different stages of...