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 
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