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Quarter of nation’s audiologists make Audiology Australia 2025 Conference a huge success

by Helen Carter

Delegates in the Adelaide Convention Centre's main plenary hall enjoying the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference presentations. Image: Audiology Australia.

National

A quarter of Australia's audiologists were treated to exceptional presentations that educated, upskilled, reskilled and enlightened them at the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference in Adelaide. More than 1,000 delegates attended the nation's premier hearing health event of the year at...

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From left, audiologists Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro will present on cochlear implant mapping at the webinar. Images: Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro.

Cochlear implants

IAA webinar on unlocking the power of ESRT and enhancing cochlear implant mapping

The man, who had not played with Lego since he was a child, said he woke with his left ear in agony and felt something dislodge and move. Image: wckiw/stock.adobe.com.

Cerumen removal

Lego of my ear! Lego stuck in man’s ear for 20 years caused hearing problems

Some genes were located in regions of deafness loci, making them priority candidates for being causative genes of congenital hearing loss. Image: CrazyJuke/stock.adobe.com.

Gene therapy

Researchers identify new candidate genes which could be responsible for deafness

Adelaide audiologist James Darwin from Specsavers Audiology, Thebarton with Ella the pup who is training to be a Lions Hearing Assistance Dog. Image: Specsavers.

Audiology networks

Specsavers Audiology sponsors Australian Lions Hearing Dogs’ training centre expansion

Policy & Regulation

Quarter of nation’s audiologists make Audiology Australia 2025 Conference a huge success

by Helen Carter

Delegates in the Adelaide Convention Centre's main plenary hall enjoying the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference presentations. Image: Audiology Australia.

National

A quarter of Australia's audiologists were treated to exceptional presentations that educated, upskilled, reskilled and enlightened them at the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference in Adelaide. More than 1,000 delegates attended the nation's premier hearing health event of the year at...

Read more

Some HHSA members at its meeting on 12-13 March in Melbourne at Amplifon headquarters where discussion included election priorities. HHSA chair Jane MacDonald is sixth from left and deputy chair Leanne Emerson third from right. Image: Prime Creative Media.

Hearing Health Sector Alliance

HHSA urges government to extend HSP to low-income people and create new item for aged care screening

AudA says barriers such as limited Medicare funding and inadequate recognition of audiologists’ scope of practice continue to limit access to hearing services. Image: MotionSenor/stock.adobe.com.

Federal Government

Audiology Australia disappointed hearing health and audiology overlooked in 2025 Federal Budget

The HSP expansion will be funded by Hearing Australia’s commercial operations and will provide free hearing assessments, hearing aids and support to at risk individuals ineligible for Australian Government-funded hearing services through the HSP. Image: Engima/stock.adobe.com.

Hearing Services Program

New Hearing Australia program offers free hearing aids to First Nations people, the unemployed and homeless

Audiology Australia is also supporting a recommendation from the Hearing Health Sector Alliance to expand the Hearing Services Program to low-income and unemployed Australians. Image: TEERAPONG/stock.adobe.com.

Federal Government

Audiology Australia calls for policy changes to improve access to hearing care services

Company updates and acquisitions

Adelaide audiologist James Darwin from Specsavers Audiology, Thebarton with Ella the pup who is training to be a Lions Hearing Assistance Dog. Image: Specsavers.

Specsavers Audiology sponsors Australian Lions Hearing Dogs’ training centre expansion

GN and Cochlear expand R & D partnership to enhance bimodal offerings

Audeara signs reseller agreement with George & Matilda Eyecare starting with Audeara Buds

GN’s new Australian facility: an industry-leading move reinforcing the ‘One GN’ philosophy

Careers

Delegates in the Adelaide Convention Centre's main plenary hall enjoying the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference presentations. Image: Audiology Australia.

Quarter of nation’s audiologists make Audiology Australia 2025 Conference a huge success

IAA webinar on unlocking the power of ESRT and enhancing cochlear implant mapping

The Fred Hollows Foundations seeks nominations for unsung heroes

Big boost for audiology in La Trobe Uni’s new $82 million clinical teaching building

Products

Mr Peter Karlstromer, CEO of GN Group, left, and Mr Dig Howitt, CEO and president of Cochlear, at Sydney Harbour in March 2025 after signing the contract to expand the Smart Hearing Alliance and the R&D partnership between the two companies. Image: GN.

GN and Cochlear expand R & D partnership to enhance bimodal offerings

AirPods Pro 2 can now be used as hearing aids in Australia after Apple updates software

Google announces Android users to stream Auracast broadcasts directly to hearing aids

Audeara signs reseller agreement with George & Matilda Eyecare starting with Audeara Buds

Features

Kick starting your hearing care career

by Staff Writer

Australasian College of Audiometry students at a 2024 workshop in Melbourne with educator Katie Lian, front at right. Image: AuCA.

Audiometry

Melbourne audiologist and Australasian College of Audiometry educator, Ms KATIE LIAN provides advice to kick start your career as a hearing care professional. So you’re about to finish or have recently finished your qualification as a hearing care practitioner; what...

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Students at an Auslan beginners class run by Deaf Connect which says there are only 700 accredited Auslan interpreters in Australia. Image: Deaf Connect.

Auslan

Deaf Connect says Australia has a shortage of Auslan interpreters

Top, from left, Dr Emma Laird, Ms Sophie Carson and Mr Shilp Patel. Bottom, from left, Ms Hannah McPierzie, Ms Jaselle Muscat and Ms Rheannon Santamaria.

Latest News

People on the Move – February/March 2025 edition

Dr Al-Rahim Habib says the goal of the project is to use AI to enhance ear health care in underserved regions. Image: Al-Rahim Habib.

Features

Artificial intelligence to detect ear disease in Indigenous children – Dr Al-Rahim Habib

Several factors that can facilitate successful mental health referrals in audiology settings. Image: N Lawrenson/peopleimages.com/stock.adobe.com.

Features

Improving mental health and wellbeing in patients with hearing loss

Events

Delegates in the Adelaide Convention Centre's main plenary hall enjoying the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference presentations. Image: Audiology Australia.

Quarter of nation’s audiologists make Audiology Australia 2025 Conference a huge success

Menière’s disease patient Stephen Spring and surgeon Bill Gibson develop animation

Call for abstracts for free 2025 Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology

Groundbreaking NAL-NL3 fitting formula reveals new ways of fitting hearing aids

Treatments

From left, audiologists Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro will present on cochlear implant mapping at the webinar. Images: Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro.

IAA webinar on unlocking the power of ESRT and enhancing cochlear implant mapping

Lego of my ear! Lego stuck in man’s ear for 20 years caused hearing problems

Auracast must overcome adoption barriers, Juliette Sterkens tells Australian Hearing Hub presentation

GN and Cochlear expand R & D partnership to enhance bimodal offerings

Diagnostics & Equipment

From left, audiologists Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro will present on cochlear implant mapping at the webinar. Images: Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro.

IAA webinar on unlocking the power of ESRT and enhancing cochlear implant mapping

Groundbreaking NAL-NL3 fitting formula reveals new ways of fitting hearing aids

AirPods Pro 2 can now be used as hearing aids in Australia after Apple updates software

New tool from the Eye and Ear and Bionics Institute for people with balance disorders

January 26, 2025

Research

Some genes were located in regions of deafness loci, making them priority candidates for being causative genes of congenital hearing loss. Image: CrazyJuke/stock.adobe.com.

Researchers identify new candidate genes which could be responsible for deafness

UK Biobank study links hearing loss to increased risk of heart failure

Menière’s disease patient Stephen Spring and surgeon Bill Gibson develop animation

Hearing difficulties linked to reading-related mental health issues: World first ACU research

Australia

Audiology Australia disappointed hearing health and audiology overlooked in 2025 Federal Budget

by Helen Carter

AudA says barriers such as limited Medicare funding and inadequate recognition of audiologists’ scope of practice continue to limit access to hearing services. Image: MotionSenor/stock.adobe.com.

Federal Government

Audiology Australia says it is disappointed that audiology and hearing health were overlooked in the 2025 Australian Federal Budget. “We are disappointed that once again, audiology and hearing health have been overlooked in the Government’s Budget priorities,” Ms Leanne Emerson,...

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International

The animation of the vertigo attack mechanism in Menière’s disease shows a proposed mechanism – that the tiny Valve of Bast opens and stimulates the vestibular system. Image: Vimeo.

Meniere's disease

Menière’s disease patient Stephen Spring and surgeon Bill Gibson develop animation

From left, Dr Jan-Willem Wasmann, VCAA2025 conference co-organiser and founder of the Computational Audiology Network, and keynote speakers Professor Dorothea Kolossa, Assistant Professor Giovanni Di Liberto and Dr Brent Edwards. Image: Computational Audiology Network.

International

Call for abstracts for free 2025 Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology

NAL director Dr Brent Edwards releasing details of the NAL-NL3 at the AAA conference in March 2025. Image: NAL.

Hearing aid fitting systems

Groundbreaking NAL-NL3 fitting formula reveals new ways of fitting hearing aids

The conference will be in picturesque Wellington, New Zealand in January 2025. Image: Martin/stock.adobe.com.

Conferences

Coalition for Global Hearing Health Conference in New Zealand in January

December 3, 2024

Classifieds

Image: Specsavers Audiology.

Step in to leadership and build your future with Specsavers Audiology in Goulburn NSW

Join us as an employee in Ballarat/Wendouree, VIC

Join us as a Specsavers employee in Mandurah and Halls Head, WA

Step into leadership as an Acting Partner with Specsavers Audiology Castle Hill, NSW

Education

An artist’s impression of the east facade of the new $82 million La Trobe University Health Clinic which will house a new audiology clinical service. Image: La Trobe University.

Big boost for audiology in La Trobe Uni’s new $82 million clinical teaching building

HHSA urges government to extend HSP to low-income people and create new item for aged care screening

Kick starting your hearing care career

Deaf Connect says Australia has a shortage of Auslan interpreters

Audiology

Delegates in the Adelaide Convention Centre's main plenary hall enjoying the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference presentations. Image: Audiology Australia.

Quarter of nation’s audiologists make Audiology Australia 2025 Conference a huge success

IAA webinar on unlocking the power of ESRT and enhancing cochlear implant mapping

Specsavers Audiology sponsors Australian Lions Hearing Dogs’ training centre expansion

HHSA urges government to extend HSP to low-income people and create new item for aged care screening

Audiometry

Australasian College of Audiometry students at a 2024 workshop in Melbourne with educator Katie Lian, front at right. Image: AuCA.

Kick starting your hearing care career

Deaf Connect says Australia has a shortage of Auslan interpreters

Audible Australia gifts the magic of storytime to children with hearing loss

Earbus co-founder Dr Lara Shur receives Dr Harry Blackmore AM Award

ENT Surgery

From left, audiologists Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro will present on cochlear implant mapping at the webinar. Images: Nicole Eglinton, Erica Caiuby and Lauren Iasenzaniro.

IAA webinar on unlocking the power of ESRT and enhancing cochlear implant mapping

Better Access for Vic Kids grant to cut Eastern Health paediatric ENT wait lists

University of Melbourne study finds cochlear implants may improve cognitive function, slow dementia symptoms

Cochlear implants are life changing. So why aren’t more adults changing their lives?

February 25, 2025

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