Mrs Suzie Costello1, Ms Caris Jalla1, Mrs Lara Shur1 1Earbus Foundation of WA, Wembley, Australia Earbus Foundation of Western Australia’s Newborn Hearing Screening (NBHS) Program forms part of the National Neonatal Hearing Screening Framework. The Program commenced in October 2015 and...
- January 10, 2019
Mr Peter Böttcher1 1Path Medical, Berlin, Germany Universal and quality controlled newborn hearing screening program requires a number of prerequisites for a long term, efficient and reliable outcome. This includes a direct data transfer between instruments and tracking server....
- January 10, 2019
Dr Laurence (larry) Roddick1 1John Hunter Children’s Hospital, The Junction, Australia, 2University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia The presentation will outline the causes of SNHL as seen in an Australian paediatric tertiary referral hospital. A cause was found in over...
- January 10, 2019
Mrs Suzie Costello1 1Earbus Foundation of WA, Wembley, Australia This session introduces Earbus Foundation of Western Australia and how it collaborates with the Western Australian State Government and other providers to deliver the Newborn Hearing Screening Program under a...
- January 10, 2019
Mrs Helen Burton1 1Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program, Parkville, Australia The Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program (VIHSP) delivers state-wide newborn hearing screening to all eligible infants born or residing in Victoria both in public and private sectors. This is...
- January 10, 2019
Ms Victoria Rose1,3, Ms Florencia Montes2,3, Ms Anuja Limaye1,3, Ms Vivian Tran1,3 1Children’s Hospital Westmead, Westmead, Australia, 2Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Australia, 3Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, Westmead and Randwich, Australia Aim: As part of service improvement we have been...
- January 10, 2019
Sandra Hoggarth1, Kyle Bolland1 1UNHSEIP Program, Hutt Valley District Health Board, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Hearing screening programmes typically focus on the big picture, for example in New Zealand our national programme monitoring targets (other than the 100% universal...
- January 10, 2019
Ms Caris Jalla1, Mrs Lara Shur1 1Earbus Foundation of WA, Wembley, Australia In the past UHL was considered to have little consequences because speech and language presumably developed appropriately with one normal-hearing ear. However, research has widely concluded that children with...
- January 10, 2019
Ms Emily Kecman1 1Macquarie University Previous research into information provision in this area also suggests that an “attitude problem” may exist in this area—with information often stemming from attitudes, values or beliefs rather than the evidence-base (Kecman, 2017; Matthijs...
- January 10, 2019
Dr Elizabeth Peadon1, Dr Philip Britton1,2,3, Dr Carolyn Cottier4, Ms Melanie Dowling5, Ms Janet Hodge6, Professor Alison Kesson1,2,3, Ms Judith McCloskey7, Dr Joanne McIntosh5, Professor Pamela Palasanthiran4,8, Ms Deepali Trackroo1, Dr Monica Wilkinson4,8, Professor William Rawlinson9,10 1The Children’s Hospital at...
- January 10, 2019