2022 – Page 2 – Australian Hearing Hub

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Professor Greg Leigh AO has been honoured with Hearing Australia’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award

Left to Right: Kim Terrell, Managing Director, Hearing Australia; Professor Greg Leigh AO, Director, NextSense Institute; The Hon. Bill Shorten; and Elizabeth Crouch AM, Chair, Hearing Australia Professor Greg Leigh AO has been honoured with Hearing Australia’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of 40-plus years spent furthering

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Kay shares her new lease on life after her cochlear implant

Cochlear implant recipient Kay shares her heart-warming story of being able to re-connect with her loved ones, after a lifetime of progressive hearing loss. “Being able to reconnect with my family and friends through being able to hear again has been more than I can

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

The Shepherd Centre establishes it’s first service in Tasmania

The Shepherd Centre has made significant progress in establishing local and permanent services in Tasmania over the past six months. Thanks to generous community support from Tasmanian Community Foundation, The Shepherd Centre now offers local services in Tasmania. In February 2022, after offering Telehealth

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Identifying hearing loss in childhood

The question of how best to identify hearing loss in childhood (beyond newborn hearing screening) was the focus of a recent workshop of the Australasian Newborn Hearing Screening Committee (ANHSC). The online workshop was hosted by the NextSense Institute on behalf of the ANHSC. A

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

The ‘Power of Speech’ event encourages more government support for hearing loss services

The ‘Power of Speech’ took place on 8 September 2022 at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra. As part of the event, seven children between the ages of 7-8 from First Voice member organisations around Australia and New Zealand, who have received cochlear implants, took to

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Introducing HEARsearch

We have exciting news to share! NAL is opening the doors to research participation. We invite anyone to join, yes that’s right, all ages and hearing abilities from anywhere in the world! Register here By joining this group, you will be able to make a

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Hearing Australia celebrates 75 years of innovation and service to Australians

Hearing Australia’s journey has been an extraordinary one. Starting with their support to returned war veterans in 1947, the organisation has transformed with changing times to deliver on its promise to provide innovative, world-leading research and expert hearing care to over 1.5 million Australians of

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Macquarie University and TALi (Health) Digital sign a five year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

Both parties have entered this MOU to establish a framework for state-of-the art research, and to set out potential areas in which both organisations intend to collaborate to identify and capitalise on mutually beneficial opportunities. Macquarie University Hearing, located at the Australian Hearing Hub, are

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Hearing impairment in Adults: Longitudinal Outcomes Study (HALOS) seeking volunteers

Professor Bamini Gopinath, Cochlear Chair in Hearing and Health at Macquarie University, is leading a multidisciplinary team on the Hearing impairment in Adults: Longitudinal Outcomes Study (HALOS). HALOS is an internationally unique study of 900+ adults aged 40 years and over with hearing loss who

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Deep Pattern Mining for Brain Graph Analysis: A Data Mining Perspective

Deep Pattern Mining for Brain Graph Analysis: A Data Mining Perspective Dr Jia Wu, Profession Jian Yang, Professor Michael Sheng, Professor Amin Beheshti, Professor David McAlpine and Associate Professor Paul Sowman, Mr Brett Wang ARC Linkage grant Success – $351,667 The project brings together experts

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Louise Dodd

2 years ago

Three Australian Hearing Hub employees graduate in August 2022

Three employees from the AHH community graduated from Macquarie University and attended the August graduation. Dr Aleisha Davis, Chief Clinical Officer, The Shepherd Centre completed her PhD, thesis entitled ‘Improving communication for children with hearing loss in their early years: Tracking progress and guiding

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Louise Dodd

3 years ago

The Hon Bill Shorten MP visits the Australian Hearing Hub

This month, Hearing Australia and the National Acoustic Laboratories were privileged to host the Hon Bill Shorten MP, Minister for NDIS and Government Services, and Jerome Laxale MP, Member for Bennelong. During their visit, they learnt about how Hearing Australia supports over 280,000 clients each

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