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
Claire Mitchell is the Queensland representative of DSA’s Down Syndrome Advisory Network. She worked with campaign curator Leticia Hodson to develop the structure and focus of this year’s 21 stories.
Source: Down Syndrome Australia
Open Captions Australia has a new website as a one-stop-shop promoting Open Captioned movies in cinemas across Australia, as well as general community events and more. Website: www.opencaptions.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/OCAustralia
Source: Deafness Forum of Australia
National advocates will be planning activities in 2020 such as meetings and events to coincide with the dates that federal parliamentarians meet in Canberra. The sitting calendar is published on the Parliamentary website. It is available to be viewed here
Source: DANA
Inclusion Australia urges all governments to put the interests of people with disability first. Last week’s headlines in the Fairfax media [‘Ministers accuse federal government of prioritising budget surplus over NDIS’] are of great concern to Inclusion Australia. Fairfax reported the NSW and Victorian governments are in rare agreement in accusing the federal government of […]
Source: Inclusion Australia
