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The course includes resources to equip teachers and other staff with the confidence and knowledge to support deaf and hard-of-hearing students in mainstream schooling. Image: Deaf Children Australia.

Paediatrics

Deaf Children Australia launches free short course to make classrooms deaf-friendly

July 14, 2025

Deaf Children Australia (DCA) has launched a free two-hour online course designed to help school communities better support their deaf...

Falls of Australians aged over 65 years old cost the health system more than $2.8 billion annually, the new guidelines say. Image: Wesley/peopleimages.com/stock.adobe.com.

Ear conditions

New falls guidelines urge hearing assessment on aged care admission and annually

by Helen Carter

July 14, 2025

New Australian falls guidelines recommend facilitating access to hearing assessment and management for people in residential aged care facilities (RACS)...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's famous Girl with the Pearl Earring painting from 1665 now sports a cochlear implant with Deafmetal’s golden safety chain featuring pearls, and coil hat over the transmitter. The model is Aileen Gansloweit. Photo: Nicole Mantello/Deafmetal.

Products

Deafmetal cochlear implant and hearing aid jewellery recreates famous art

by Helen Carter

July 14, 2025

Deafmetal, which makes jewellery and accessories for cochlear implants and hearing aids, has reinvented famous paintings and sculptures for an...

Hunter in his classroom, wearing his sound generators discreetly placed over his ears which Mini Gupta says help him remain calm, focused, and thriving. Image: Mini Gupta.

Hyperacusis

Beyond the noise: Honouring lives and building hope on World Misophonia Day

by Staff Writer

July 9, 2025

BY MINI GUPTA In honour of the inaugural World Misophonia Day – 9 July 2025. Hunter’s sound sensitivity experience I...

Pharmacists don’t have the training required to properly diagnose medical conditions, the RACGP says. Image: Joke Phatrapong/stock.adobe.com.

Workforce

Doctors claim pharmacist prescribing for ear infections threatens patient safety

by Helen Carter

July 7, 2025

An Australian doctor and university professor, plus the RACGP, believe the increasing expansion of pharmacy prescribing, including for ear infections,...

Keynote speakers, from left, Richard Dougherty, Sonia Pivac and Wayne Betts Jr. Images: Deaf Connect.

Educators and training

Inaugural Deaf Ecosystem Summit to showcase the power of Deaf-led innovation

by Helen Carter

July 5, 2025

Deaf Connect and Convo Australia are co-partnering to organise an event in Sydney in August for Deaf people to celebrate...

Hearing rehabilitation with hearing aids or cochlear implants was generally associated with improved social outcomes, including higher social quality of life. Image: AnnaStills/stock.adobe.com.

Research

Review confirms hearing aids and cochlear implants improve social outcomes for adults with hearing loss

by Helen Carter

July 5, 2025

A review and meta-analysis of studies has “provided comprehensive evidence” that hearing rehabilitative devices are associated with improved social outcomes...

Children responded the best but the treatment was also effective in adults. Image: Katawut/stock.adobe.com.

Gene therapy

One shot gene therapy led to considerable hearing improvement in deaf kids: study

by Helen Carter

July 3, 2025

A new study has documented “considerable improvement” in all 10 patients who received one injection of gene therapy for congenital...

Neural progenitor cells forming synaptic connections. The therapy makes auditory progenitors (the early forms of mature sensory cells in the cochlea) from stem cells. When delivered to the cochlea, they can become functional auditory neurons, re-establishing nerve connections in the cochlea. Image: Arthaphan/stock.adobe.com.

Cell therapy

Rinri Therapeutics to start first stem cell trial in humans aiming to reverse hearing loss

by Helen Carter

July 3, 2025

Rinri Therapeutics has received approval to go ahead with its world first trial in humans of cell therapies that aim...

A child having a hearing test. Image: Hearing Australia.

Otitis media (middle ear infection)

New Hearing Australia data shows 35% of Indigenous kids have fluctuating ear disease

by Helen Carter

July 2, 2025

More than one third – 35% – of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children experience fluctuating ear disease where...

Apple Hearing Study identifies link between tinnitus and heart rate variability

Latest News

Deaf Children Australia launches free short course to make classrooms deaf-friendly

New falls guidelines urge hearing assessment on aged care admission and annually

Deafmetal cochlear implant and hearing aid jewellery recreates famous art

Beyond the noise: Honouring lives and building hope on World Misophonia Day

Doctors claim pharmacist prescribing for ear infections threatens patient safety

Inaugural Deaf Ecosystem Summit to showcase the power of Deaf-led innovation

Review confirms hearing aids and cochlear implants improve social outcomes for adults with hearing loss

One shot gene therapy led to considerable hearing improvement in deaf kids: study

Rinri Therapeutics to start first stem cell trial in humans aiming to reverse hearing loss

New Hearing Australia data shows 35% of Indigenous kids have fluctuating ear disease

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