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Julie Fisher and Tina Naughton are friends and have been for many years. Their older children were at school together. Through this friendship, Julie also knew Tina’s younger daughter Amy, who has Down syndrome, and had spoken to Tina at different times about what is was like when Amy was born. She knew the story of how receiving the diagnosis at birth had been difficult for Tina as she didn’t know what to expect when given a Down syndrome diagnosis for their baby girl.

Source: Down Syndrome Australia

My role here at Down Syndrome Association of Queensland is Administration Assistant I help with putting together Reading Our Way Kits, learning how to use the computer at work and at home as using database entering all the schools even technology with social media and everything else that I can think of like, working next to Georgie and Darryl and the QDSAN meetings.

Source: Down Syndrome Australia

Australian Communications Consumer Action Network commissioned research into the quality of live captions on Free-to-Air TV. This was after receiving feedback from Deafness Forum and consumers about the quality of live captions on TV. Researchers from the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University analysed 20 hours of programming across the five main channels […]

Source: Deafness Forum of Australia

Hi, I’m Kieren and I am four years old. I live with my mum, dad and older sister in Victoria. When my mum was pregnant with me, I was diagnosed with a rare variant of Down syndrome known as mosaic Trisomy 21.

Source: Down Syndrome Australia

Visit www.worldhearingday.org.au or www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au. with the financial support of Hearing Australia. Take the Hear&Now 2020 Challenge. On WORLD HEARING DAY 3 March 2020 we identify the areas that need big improvements to make the community accessible for people with hearing difficulties and who communicate in sign language. Healthcare appointments with poor hearing access When it is […]

Source: Deafness Forum of Australia

Research by the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL), the research division of Hearing Australia, has established that the earlier a child with hearing loss can be fitted with a hearing aid or cochlear implant, the better the outcomes. Results from NAL’s Longitudinal Outcomes of Children with Hearing Impairment (LOCHI) study show that early fitting of hearing […]

Source: Deafness Forum of Australia