Audiology

Dr Teresa YC Ching1, Dr Harvey Dillon, Mr Mark Seeto, Ms Patricia Van Buynder, Ms Laura Button, Ms Vivienne Marnane (National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney, Australia) Background: Universal newborn hearing screening has been implemented to detect permanent childhood hearing loss early,...
  • March 8, 2019
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Alison King, Principal Audiologist, Paediatric Services, Australian Hearing The number of children who receive amplification for mild hearing loss has increased over time, due to improvements in diagnostic test techniques, improvements in hearing aid technology and growing awareness of the...
  • February 7, 2019
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Ms Florencia Montes1  1Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Artarmon, Australia   Objective: To share our Peer review system for quality monitoring and improvement. Background: In 2009 the NSW Department of Health conducted an evaluation of the SWISH program. The evaluation was...
  • January 9, 2019
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Ms Melanie Jarvis2, Dr Peter Carew2, Dr Melinda Barker1,2, Ms Alison Jagger1, Dr Zeffie Poulakis1,2,3  1Royal Children’s Hospital , Melbourne, Australia, 2The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia   Background: There is limited evidence regarding...
  • January 9, 2019
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Ms Inge Kaltenbrunn1, Dr Robyn Cantle Moore2  1Royal Institute For Deaf And Blind Children, North Rocks, Australia, 2RIDBC Renwick Centre/Macquarie University , North Rocks, Australia   Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD) is a complex auditory condition. In the presence of...
  • January 9, 2019
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Ms Kylie Bolland1  1Hutt Valley District Health Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand   Management of children with conductive hearing loss is highly variable in terms of the age at which they may be fitted with a hearing instrument, and the...
  • January 9, 2019
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Dr Kirsty Gardner-berry1, Associate Professor Catherine Birman1, Dr Halit Sanli1, Dr WaiKong Lai1 1Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, Gladesville, Australia   The introduction of universal newborn hearing screening has lead to a significant decrease in the age at cochlear implantation, and...
  • January 8, 2019
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Mr Andrew Geyl1 1Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, NSW, Australia When assessing neonates using the evoked Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) determining the nature of a hearing loss — conductive, sensorineural/retrocochlear or mixed — is of utmost importance. In most cases, clinicians need to...
  • April 12, 2017
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Ms Kelly Nicholls1 1Healthy Hearing Program, Queensland Health, Nundah, Australia The Healthy Hearing Program in Queensland was established in 2004, with universal roll-out completed by 2006.  More than 99% of babies are screened each year, and referred babies are seen...
  • April 11, 2017
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Dr Teresa YC Ching1,2, Dr Vicky ZHANG1,2, Patricia Van Buynder1, the LOCHI team1,2 1National Acoustic Laboratories, Macquarie University, Australia, 2HEARing CRC, Australia We propose a series of 4 papers to feature in a Symposium on Improving outcomes for children through...
  • April 11, 2017
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