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A new partnership between the Australian Hearing Hub at Macquarie University and the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network will help provide better hearing outcomes for children.

Master of Speech and Language Pathology students were busy across campus during the week of 25-29 August raising awareness about the International Communication Project and marking 2014 Speech Pathology Week.

In late September, the Macquarie University Cognition Clinic for Reading opened its doors for business for the first time.

To celebrate Hearing Awareness Week, the partner organisations of the Australian Hearing Hub (AHH) hosted an open house event on Saturday August 23. The event was opened by distinguished guest The Hon. Jillian Skinner MP.

Following the World Congress of Audiology, Macquarie University and the Australian Hearing Hub hosted a satellite symposium on Friday 9 May 2014. The symposium focused on Hearing and the Brain – an emerging topic which has recently gained considerable momentum in the research arena.

One year on from the official launch of the Australian Hearing Hub on 17 April 2014 the hub continues to bring together some of the country’s best researchers, educators and service providers to improve the lives of people who experience hearing and language disorders.

Emerson Reweti has been attending The Shepherd Centre for over four years, and celebrated his Graduation in December. Emerson will be attending his first day of Kindergarten at a mainstream school.

The Shepherd Centre was delighted when little Grace Claridge appeared on Sunrise recently to show off her brand new cochlear implants!

With over 30 million Chinese children suffering from hearing and language disorders, Australian researchers hosted two in-country workshops to address the issue of hearing impairment and its effects on language acquisition and cognition in children.

A new imaging device was launched on Macquarie University’s campus today, helping researchers in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) and HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) better understand how the human brain processes information from a cochlear implant.

Thank you to everyone who participated at the inaugural Hearing Awareness and Speech Awareness Mini Expo.

On Monday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the first new Australian Innovation Partnership – the Medical Technologies Innovation Partnership – which will be headquartered in Macquarie Park.  Mr Rudd, Senator Kim Carr, and local candidate Jason Yat-sen Li made the announcement during a visit to