Vic CHILD Hearing Research in Parkville, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Vic CHILD Hearing Research

Locality: Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Address: 50 Flemington Rd 3052 Parkville, VIC, Australia

Website: www.mcri.edu.au/vicchild

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23.01.2022 StepUp2HighSchool Deaf Children Australia is holding an online session to prepare deaf and hard of hearing youth with the skills, tools and confidence to navigate their way successfully through high school. This seminar is for children in the last few years of primary school and entering high school, or deaf or hard of hearing youth who are already in high school wanting to understand and improve their high school experience, and for their families. Thursday 21st January 2021, 5.00-6.00pm, by Zoom. Further details, including presenters and cost can be found on their website. https://www.deafchildrenaustralia.org.au/event

22.01.2022 We met with 25 children for online assessments in the September holidays. Thanks to everyone who participated - it was great to meet you and your child. Good luck for Term 4!

18.01.2022 Nursery rhymes, lullabies, and singing games are all part of childhood. This is no different for children with hearing loss! We don't all have to hear music in the same way to see the benefits of enjoying, dancing or relaxing to our favourite tune. So let’s get out the pots, pans and wooden spoons, turn up the radio, dance and have fun with early listening!

18.01.2022 We have recently published a paper in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. This study found that the most common speech-sound disorder related to hearing loss is phonological delay. You can read the abstract here or contact us for the full article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1460-6984.12536

15.01.2022 Professor George Patton from Murdoch Children's Research Institute speaks to Radio National Breakfast presenter Fran Kelly about new research that has found men... with poor mental health in adolescence and young adulthood are more likely to father premature babies. The study, conducted over 15 years, also found women with anxiety and depression during pregnancy were also more likely to have a preterm birth. It's prompted concerns that mental health problems induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, could result in more premature births in the future. #COVID #mentalhealth #prematurebirth

15.01.2022 Here's a piece of interesting information brought to us by Deaf Children Australia! #hearingloss #cochlearimplant #deafchildrenaustralia

14.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Lil Downie! Dr Lil Downie recently won first prize at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Victorian Trainee Research Awards. She is completing her PhD in genetic testing for childhood hearing loss. Her project offered a new kind of genetic testing (exome sequencing) to some VicCHILD families in 2016-18. Thanks to these families, she found that the exome sequence test was much better than current available tests in finding the cause of a child’s h...earing loss. Finding the cause early means less uncertainty and better care for these families. Because exome sequencing is currently very expensive and not accessible to many families, the team is now working on making exome sequencing a government-funded test so that more parents can access genetic testing after their child’s hearing diagnosis. #vicchild #congenitalhearingloss #exome #sequencing

13.01.2022 Libby Smith is next up in our ‘Meet the VicCHILD Team’ series. Libby has a long history with the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, and joined the VicCHILD team as project manager in 2016.

13.01.2022 In October, we welcomed the 100th new VicCHILD participant for the year! We are very grateful to each and every family that has supported us.

08.01.2022 Over the last school holidays we conducted 25 assessments with our lovely participants! Today Dr Nicole Stefanac gives us a run down on how Online Learning and Language Assessments happened during lockdown.

07.01.2022 Welcome to our series of ‘Meet the team’ interviews! Today we sit down for a Q&A with our amazing principal investigator - Dr Valerie Sung. A consultant paediatrician and senior research fellow, Valerie is also the director of the Caring for Hearing Impaired Children Clinic and co-director of the Unsettled Babies Clinic at The Royal Children's Hospital.

04.01.2022 Deaf Children Australia is developing a new website called Flying Colours. It will be an easy to use website for families with deaf or hard of hearing children. Features will include key information, specially designed resources, an interactive map of key support services, activities for children, list of parent mentors, and more. Take part in the survey at flyingcolours.org.au to tell Deaf Children Australia what you want so they can deliver what you need!

02.01.2022 Victorian Loud Shirt Day is on Friday 30th October! LOUD Shirt Day is all about wearing your wackiest, loudest shirt to help raise much-needed awareness for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. You don’t have to wait for 30th October, you can get LOUD anytime to support Aussie kids born with hearing loss. Get your team (family, work place etc.) involved! Follow the link to find out more: https://support.ridbc.org.au//taralye-loud-shirt-day-/home #taralye #loudshirtday #hearingawareness #hearingloss