Month: November 2022

Ms Larissa Ralph1, Ms Sally Higgins1, Ms Felicity Hood1 1Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Purpose: To identify contributing factors that prevented babies from completing their hearing screen and to...

Mr Andrew Geyl1 1Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Australia Background: Sydney Children’s Hospital is one of the 4 centres performing neonatal diagnostic assessment in NSW (SWISH). In the 20 years of SWISH we have assessed many thousands of babies, of which...

A/Prof. Matthew Hunter1,2, Dr Frida Djukiadmodjo1,2, Mr Hong Ky Ho2, Ms Amanda Springer1,2, Dr Talia Maayan2,3, Dr Kerryn Saunders2,3 1Monash Genetics, Melbourne, Australia, 2Department of Paediatrics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 3Department of Paediatrics, Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia Background: Paediatric-onset hearing...

Dr Karen Liddle1,2, Dr Rachael Beswick1, Dr Aideen McInerney-Leo2 1Queensland Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia, 2Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia Purpose: The purpose of this research proposal is to characterise the clinical and genetic...

Dr Jun Jean Ong1,4, Miss Libby Smith1,2, MIss Jessica  Xu1,2, Associate Professor Gehan Roberts1,2,3, Associate Professor Valerie Sung1,2,3 1The Royal Children’s Hospital, Centre for Community Child Health, Melbourne, Australia, 2Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 3The University of Melbourne, Department...

Dr Karen Liddle1,2, Dr Rebecca Kriukelis1, Dr Rachael Beswick1 1Children’s Health Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia, 2Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia Purpose: To describe a cohort of paediatric patients from Queensland, Australia who have hearing loss(HL)  as well...

Dr Karen Liddle1,2, Dr Jane Fitzgibbons1, Dr  Rachael Beswick1 1Queensland Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Australia Purpose: To determine the incidence, prevalence and describe risk factors and etiology for childhood Auditory...

Mrs Alanna Gillespie1,2, Libby  Smith1, Daisy Shepherd3,4, Jessica Xu1,2, Rija Khanal1,2, A/Prof Valerie  Sung1,2,4 1Prevention Innovation, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Australia, 2Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia, 3Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute,...

Mrs Jennifer Eakin1, Ms Stephanie  Keszegi1 1Gold Coast Health, Southport, Australia Whilst universal newborn hearing screening primarily aims to detect bilateral, moderate or greater permanent hearing loss, newborns with non-target hearing loss conditions, such as transient conductive hearing loss are...

Ms Florencia Montes1, Ms Kirsty Gardner-Berry2, Ms Carolyn Cottier1 1Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, , , 2NextSense, , Background: A diagnosis of ANSD has significant implications for management. The auditory brainstem response (ABR) typically shows absent/abnormal neural waveforms, which can be...