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Congratulations to Associate Professor Mridula Sharma; Professor Gillian Wigglesworth; Professor Katherine Demuth on their grant success The ABC’s of listening and learning: a study in the Northern Territory. Indigenous Australian children experience middle ear disorders earlier in life and for longer periods than their non-Indigenous counterparts. The

The Shepherd Centre is excited to announce its newest initiative, HearHub, an online platform that will take its world-leading clinical programs global. With The Shepherd Centre’s 50 years of excellence in clinical program delivery and research, HearHub will ensure clinicians and families anywhere in Australia

Hearing Australia is working with communities across regional, rural and remote Australia to tackle high rates of hearing loss in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. To date, Hearing Australia’s Hearing Assessment Program – Early Ears, dubbed, HAPEE, has conducted diagnostic hearing assessments of

  World-first consensus published  in JAMA Otolaryngology recommends ‘minimum international standard of care for cochlear implantation’, including diagnosis, referral, treatment and aftercare for adults living with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss[1] Landmark consensus provides optimism people in Australia living with severe to profound hearing

Macquarie University and Cochlear Ltd today announce the appointment of the Cochlear Chair in Hearing and Health. This co-funded role strengthens the existing partnership between the two organisations, enhancing the University’s position as a global leader in hearing research and practice, and supporting Cochlear’s goals to improve understanding

Researchers from the Department of Linguistics, in the Australian Hearing Hub, have been awarded a highly competitive grant from the United Nations’ Global Partnership for Assistive Technology to address hearing loss in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Principal Investigator Dr John Newall and his fellow researchers, Associate Professor Piers Dawes

A Macquarie University research team has been awarded a government grant of $1,961,473.90, over three years, by The Medical Research Future Fund to complete a study on improving care pathways for treating middle ear disease in Aboriginal children. Compared with the non-Indigenous population, middle ear