Month: January 2019

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 Angela Deken1, Ms Nicola Ellis  1Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand   Resilient Organizations is a public good research social enterprise programme from Christchurch New Zealand, which is now an international movement of which Sydney and Melbourne are...
  • January 9, 2019
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Ms Judith Mccloskey1, Ms Judith Noonan1 1WSLHD & NBMLHD, WESTMEAD & NEPEAN, AUSTRALIA   PURPOSE To discuss the development of a new SWISH hearing risk factor brochure undertaken by two NSW Local Health District (LHD) in partnership with consumers, to improve...
  • 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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Ms Anita Condon1, Ms Lauren McHugh1  1Healthy Hearing Program, Children’s Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia   Background The Queensland Minimum Standards of Practice: Early intervention for children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and their families were released in 2015...
  • January 9, 2019
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Mrs Delene Thomas1  1Healthy Hearing Program, Queensland, Pullenvale, Brisbane, Australia   Cancer during pregnancy is rare, but does complicate 0.02% to 0.1% of pregnancies annually. Women are leaving child bearing until much later in their lives. Therefore, the incidences of...
  • January 9, 2019
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Mrs Nicole Davolio1, Judi Krause1, Narelle Anger1, Sophie Morson1  1Child And Youth Mental Health Service, Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service., South Brisbane, Australia   Purpose Provide overview of the barriers in accessing timely mental health care support for...
  • January 9, 2019
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Ms Jacinta Pennacchia1, Dr Shani Dettman1, Ms Dawn Choo1, Dr Peter Carew1  1The University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia   Purpose. Prematurity is a significant predictor of perinatal mortality and/or comorbid diagnoses; with greater gestational age and higher birth weight, both...
  • January 9, 2019
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Dr Kirsty Gardner-berry1, Associate Professor Catherine Birman1, Ms Rachelle Hassarati1, Mrs Maree McTaggart1  1Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, Gladesville, Australia   From 1992-2018 over 450 infants received cochlear implants under 2 years of age.  During this time the number of infants...
  • January 9, 2019
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Dr Emma Williams1,2  1Ministry of Health, Thorndon, New Zealand,  2Paediatric Department – Wellington Hospital, Newtown, New Zealand   In New Zealand children aged 4 years have preschool hearing screening at the B4 School Check using pure tone audiometry (PT). Pure...
  • January 9, 2019
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