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PhD candidate Chi Yhun Lo recently held a small graduation ceremony for his music therapy students with hearing loss. The students have been learning to play instruments as part of a research project, being done in collaboration with Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia, which aims to

We are very pleased to welcome Professor Anne Schilder from UCL who joins the Macquarie University community as an Honorary Professor. Anne is an ENT surgeon and a trialist. She leads evidENT, a multidisciplinary clinical research team that bridges the University College London Ear Institute’s

People with aphasia are learning new ways of self-expression through visual art, thanks to the support of the Macquarie University Speech and Hearing Clinic. In 2016, the clinic’s first Aphasia Art Group, ‘Visual Voices’, was offered following a successful research pilot. This inspiring initiative was

On 8 March 2017 a Workshop was held at Macquarie University on the ‘Relationship between Indigenous Children’s Hearing and Phonological Awareness in Remote Communities in the Northern Territory’. Many of the current interventions to address conductive hearing loss in Aboriginal children living remotely focus on sound

The Association for Research in Otolarynogolgy (ARO) held its 40th Annual MidWinter Meeting in Baltimore on 11-15 February 2017. The MidWinter Meeting is the primary meeting of the Association and provides a great opportunity to present and discuss research in the broad field of Otolaryngology.

  Renowned surgeon, Associate Professor Catherine Birman, has won the 2017 New South Wales Premier’s Award for Woman of the Year. A/Prof Birman was awarded the 2017 title at a ceremony at Parliament House on Wednesday 8 March to coincide with International Women’s Day. A/Prof