The Hear and Say Centre today

Currently the Hear and Say Centre provides the following services for over 250 children:

Our services:

Warm, family atmosphere
Fully equipped audiological facilities
Purpose designed building including therapy rooms, indoor and outdoor play areas, training auditorium for parents and professionals and for meetings, offices and waiting area
Auditory-Verbal early intervention program
Full cochlear implant program to 12 years of age
MAPping and assessment to 18 yearsand over
Outreach program for rural and regional areas including videoconferencing and webcam
Additional Centres at the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Darling Downs and North Queensland
Language Enriched Playgroup Program
Transition program to facilitate children's integration into regular school settings
Educational support for professionals pertinent to the child's education
Parent education and support
Research programs as a supporting party of Co-operative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovation
Current staff includes:Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Teachers of the Deaf, Audiologists, Early Childhood Teachers and Development/Fundraising staff
Volunteers
Social Worker

Funding base:

20% Education Queensland Grant; Commonwealth Special Education Non-Schools Organisations Grant and Disability Services Queensland Grant.
80% Donations, fundraising, grants, trust funds, community service groups, corporate support.

Future plans

To better cover the wide geographical area serviced by the Hear and Say Centre (close to two thousand square miles)
Stabilisation of ongoing funding
Expansion to areas of rural and regional cluster groups and families
Development of expanded Parent/Infant programs to accommodate new referrals from universal neonatal hearing screening
Extend overseas program
Extend our Professional Auditory-Verbal Therapy education program
Cochlear implant education program for professionals
To advocate for Australia-wide universal infant hearing screening