Latest News 01 May 2013: First Voice releases 2012 annual report It has been a busy and an enormously gratifying year for First Voice and the annual report provides an informative update of our many projects and activities over the past year to improve the lives of young hearing impaired children throughout the region. Read the full announcement. 16 October 2012: New First Voice Chair Appointed First Voice is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Jim Hungerford as its new Board Chair. Mr Hungerford takes over from Associate Professor Dimity Dornan AM, who has held the position for the past 18 months. Mr Hungerford is the Chief Executive Officer of The Shepherd Centre, an early intervention centre based in Sydney which has outreach centres in metropolitan Sydney and Canberra. He brings more than 30 years' experience in health sciences and senior management to the position of First Voice Chair. Read the full announcement.  17 May 2012: First Voice centres selected to deliver national rural and regional hearing program First Voice centres and Vision Australia have been selected by the Australian Government to deliver remote hearing and vision services to children in rural and remote areas under a new $4.1M government telehealth program. Specialist services will be delivered to hearing and/or vision impaired Australians aged 0 to 18 years via video conferencing using laptops and iPads. 31 January 2012: First Voice releases annual report First Voice has released its annual report on its first year as the national voice for listening and spoken language member organisations. First Voice has exerted a high level of influence in its first year of operation, and continues to demonstrate thought, policy, research and clinical leadership on all matters related to early childhood deafness.

 

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Position Papers

First Voice is actively championing the right of all deaf and hearing impaired people to listen and speak. It will be tapping into the considerable clinical, academic and professional resources within its member network to make active contributions to issues of public debate and enquiry.

 

Public documents, papers and submissions are listed below:

 

08 June 2011
Aiming High. First Voice National Best Practice Policy for Children with Hearing Loss Using Listening and Spoken Language

 

13 September 2010

First Voice submission, Review of Funding for Schooling 2010, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations