Tag: hearing

Music teaches deaf and hard-of-hearing children to listen

Sarah Bradley on 25 March, 2022

Group music therapy helps hearing-impaired kids understand complex sounds

The improved listening skills boost educational and emotional growth

A 12-week music program is helping deaf and hard-of-hearing children learn to optimise their hearing aids and cochlear implants, by teaching them to better understand the sounds they detect.

The program, developed by Dr Chi Yhun Lo from Macquarie University, helps the children to extract meaningful information, such as separating noise from what they want to hear, a skill that is critical to their education and emotional development.

“Deafness is often seen as a barrier to engagement with music,” says Chi. “On the contrary, music actually is an excellent way to improve the problems associated with hearing loss.”

From the bionic ear to the ‘audiologist in your pocket

Operations on 8 April, 2015

The Aussie hearing system you can set up yourself or for your gran: online and on your phone

From the bionic ear to the ‘audiologist in your pocket’ – high performance, low cost hearing for the four million of us who don’t want to admit our hearing loss

Images and background information below.

An Australian company has completed a trifecta of tools to help Australians take care of their own hearing without the stress and expense of audiology visits. It’s the product of decades of government-backed research. Read More about From the bionic ear to the ‘audiologist in your pocket

First results from national hearing survey

Operations on 7 September, 2012

7,500 participants so far
40 percent report they have a hearing loss
One third of the under 40s are binge listening
70 percent experiencing ringing in their ears

Survey closes 12 September Read More about First results from national hearing survey

Saving the iPod generation – Peter Blamey wins Clunies Ross Award

Tamzin on 14 June, 2012

A hearing loss expert who will tonight be awarded one of Australia’s top science prizes will address students in Sydney Friday 15 June on the danger posed by their iPods.

Oz research of note, 4 December, 2011

Science in Public on 5 December, 2011

Eggs that talk to each other, the stressed hearts of the broken-hearted and online chat fighting depression are just some of the interesting stories that emerged from Australian research published in the last week. Find over a dozen other stories below.

An old home for unique Australian-designed hearing aid technology

Science in Public on 23 November, 2011

Empowering a generation to take control of their hearing

The Australian hearing aid company Blamey & Saunders Hearing’s new clinic and offices will be opened this evening at 6 pm at historic 364 Albert Street, East Melbourne, by Michelle Gallaher, CEO of the BioMelbourne Network.

The new hearing aid has evolved from sound technologies developed for Graeme Clark’s bionic ear. It empowers users to take control of their own hearing. They can buy online and fine tune the hearing aid themselves or with the help of an audiologist. The choice is theirs and the price—starting at under $1,000—is a fraction of the cost of equivalent hearing aids.