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Services and organisations - health

Ear health and hearing services and organisations

Australia

Audiology Society of Australia
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Australian Association of the Deaf
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Australian Deaf Sports Federation
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Australian Government Hearing Services
The objective of Hearing Services is to reduce the consequences of hearing loss for eligible clients and reduce the incidence of hearing loss in the broader community.
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Australian Hearing
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A section of the website is devoted to services provided by Australian Hearing to address hearing loss in Indigenous Australians. It includes a description of the Aboriginal Health Worker Training and Equipment Program.
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Australian Hearing also has a customer hotline - 1300 360 355 - for clients to provide suggestions, compliments or complaints directly to senior management.

Australian Tinnitus Association (NSW Ltd)
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Better Hearing Australia Inc
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Centrelink
Centrelink offices and agents in the following locations are able to act as a distribution point for hearing aid repairs, batteries and/or Australian Hearing service information.

The Centrelink site locations are:

  • Customer Service Centres and Remote Area Service Centres in NT: Kununurra, Halls Creek, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy, Maningrida and Tiwi Islands
  • Agents, NT: Wyndham, Angurugu, Umbakumba, Numbulwar, Yirrkala,
  • Ngaanyatjarra Lands - Warburton, Warakurna, Mantanaru (Jamieson), Pupulankutja (Blackstone), Wanarn, Irrunytju, (Wingellina)
    Amata (SA), Mimili (SA), Beswick, Barunga, Bulman
  • Customer Service Centres and Remote Area Service Centres, Q'ld: Palm island, Thursday Island, Normanton, Yarrabah, Northern Peninsula Area (Bamaga), Western Cape (Weipa)
  • Agents, Qld: Mornington Island, Doomadgee, Burketown, Napranum, Blackall, Blackwater, Winton, Injinoo, Umagico, New Mapoon, Seisia
  • Customer Service Centres and Remote Area Service Centres in WA: Carnarvon, Karratha, South Hedland, Northam, Esperance, Laverton, Newman, Meekatharra
  • Agents, WA: Roebourne, Onslow

View website: Centrelink

Deafness Forum of Australia
The Deafness Forum represents interests and viewpoints of the deaf and hearing impaired communities of Australia. There is a section devoted to Indigenous hearing health.
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DeafSa
This site provides information about deafness, hearing loss, deaf culture and the deaf community. It includes details of technical devices and communication modes employed by deaf persons and others with hearing loss.
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Ear Science Institute
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Indigenous community volunteers
Indigenous community volunteers (ICV) has joined with Indigenous people as part of the national focus on reducing the incidence of eye infections and ear infections (such as otitis media), particularly in Indigenous children. Funding from the Myer Foundation will assist ICV in working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders, and community people, on their projects in this area. Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV) has volunteers who want to work alongside members of a community to increase the skills and knowledge about care for ears and eyes of young children. They can work with on projects about:

  • how to care for kids’ ears and teaching kids to care for their own ears and eyes
  • developing training programs to assist in ear and eye health in communities and organisations
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Menzies School of Health Research
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Telethon Speech & Hearing Centre for Children Western Australia
The centre is a non-profit organisation that helps children who are speech delayed and hearing-impaired to learn to listen and speak. They also run an ear clinic for children with hard to treat middle ear infections.
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Contact details: Telethon Speech & Hearing, 36 Dodd Street Wembley WA 6014, PO Box 186, Wembley WA 6913, ph: (08) 9387 9888, fax: (08) 9387 9889, email: speech@tsh.org.au, Ear Clinic ph: (08) 9387 9876, fax: (08) 9387 9889 email: earclinic@tsh.org.au

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International

Audiology Information Network (US)
(featuring 'searchwave' a search engine for audiology, hearing loss, hearing aids, and the ear)
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National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) (US)
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Indigenous controlled health services

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Other organisations

Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health
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Commonwealth Office of Disability
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Services and organisations - communication and learning

Australian Council for Educational Research
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Indigenous section, including Standing Committee
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Australian Department of Education, Science and Training
DEST supports Australian Government’s educational objectives by working in collaboration with the States and Territories, industry, other agencies and the community. Through the development and implementation of policies it aims to ensure the continuing relevance of education, science and training to contemporary needs and the growing requirement for lifelong learning.
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Centrelink
Centrelink offices and agents in the following locations are able to act as a distribution point for hearing aid repairs, batteries and/or Australian Hearing service information.

The Centrelink site locations are:

  • Customer Service Centres and Remote Area Service Centres in NT: Kununurra, Halls Creek, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy, Maningrida and Tiwi Islands
  • Agents, NT: Wyndham, Angurugu, Umbakumba, Numbulwar, Yirrkala,
  • Ngaanyatjarra Lands - Warburton, Warakurna, Mantanaru (Jamieson), Pupulankutja (Blackstone), Wanarn, Irrunytju, (Wingellina)
    Amata (SA), Mimili (SA), Beswick, Barunga, Bulman
  • Customer Service Centres and Remote Area Service Centres, Q'ld: Palm island, Thursday Island, Normanton, Yarrabah, Northern Peninsula Area (Bamaga), Western Cape (Weipa)
  • Agents, Qld: Mornington Island, Doomadgee, Burketown, Napranum, Blackall, Blackwater, Winton, Injinoo, Umagico, New Mapoon, Seisia
  • Customer Service Centres and Remote Area Service Centres in WA: Carnarvon, Karratha, South Hedland, Northam, Esperance, Laverton, Newman, Meekatharra
  • Agents, WA: Roebourne, Onslow

View website: Centrelink

Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead's main purpose is to encourage working together to lift the English literacy and numeracy levels of Indigenous students to that of national standards.
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Indigenous education information for States and Territories

Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training any Youth Affairs
The Council membership comprises State, Territory, Australian Government and New Zealand Ministers with responsibility for the portfolios of education, employment, training and youth affairs.

Functions of the Council include:

  • coordination of strategic policy at the national level,
  • negotiation and development of national agreements on shared objectives and interests (including principles for Australian Government/State relations) in the Council's areas of responsibility,
  • negotiations on scope and format of national reporting on areas of responsibility,
  • sharing of information and collaborative use of resources towards agreed objectives and priorities, and
  • coordination of communication with, and collaboration between, related national structures.

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National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Website
NATSIEW provides information about education resources.
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Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) website
The national non government peak body in Australia representing the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families.
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What works
This website provides information about a national effort to improve outcomes for Indigenous students and is designed to help teachers and administrators working in education and training take action. It includes advice and information about how improvement can be achieved and examples of contemporary cases where this has occurred.
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Last updated: 10 June 2008