Reports & Papers
Sound Outcomes
Sounds Outcomes is an annual review of speech and language outcomes of children enrolled in early intervention programs across First Voice member and affiliated centers.
Reports & Papers
Government & Parliamentary Submissions
Sound Connections
Sound Connections was a three-year research project conducted by First Voice from 2011 to 2014 across its six member and affiliated centers to investigate the listening, spoken language and social inclusion outcomes of children with hearing loss who received listening and spoken language early intervention. The project was funded by a Telstra Foundation Social Innovation Grant.
Findings and launch materials
Peer reviewed publications arising from Sound Connections
Constantinescu-Sharpe, G., Phillips, R., Davis, A., & Dornan, D. (2017). Social inclusion for children with hearing loss in listening and spoken language early intervention. BMC Pediatrics, 17(74). DOI: 10.1186/s12887-017-0823-y
http://researchbank.acu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7608&context=fhs_pub
Constantinescu-Sharpe, G., Phillips, R., Davis, A., & Dornan, D. (2017). Social inclusion for children with hearing loss in listening and spoken language early intervention. BMC Pediatrics, 17(74).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351175/
Conference presentations
Research Presentations
Constantinescu, G., Davis, A., Dornan, D., Taylor R., & Hogan, A. (2013, April) The Impact of Speech and Language on Social inclusion for Children with Hearing Loss: A Model for Evaluation Australian Hearing Hub Inaugural Conference, Sydney, Australia
Dornan, D., Constantinescu, G., Davis, A., Phillips, R. (2013, November) A model for Evaluating the Impact of Speech and Language on Social Inclusion for Young Children with Hearing Loss. Presented at the 9th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences, Hyderabad, India
Constantinescu, G., Phillips, R., Davis, A., & Dornan, D. (2014, May) Social Inclusion in Children with Hearing Loss Educated Using a Listening and Spoken Language Approach. Presentation at the XXXII World Congress of Audiology, Brisbane, Australia
Constantinescu, G., Dornan, D., Phillips, R., Davis, A. (2014, June) Benchmarking the Social Inclusion of Children with Hearing Loss Educated using a Listening and Spoken Language Approach. Presentation at HEAL 2014: Hearing Across the Lifespan, Lake Como, Italy
Constantinescu, G., Dornan, D., Phillips, R. & Davis, A. (August 2014). The social inclusion of children in everyday activities: A novel approach to measurement and its application for children with hearing loss. Paper presented at the Early Childhood Intervention Australian Conference, Brisbane, Australia
Davis, A. Constantinescu, G., Phillips, A. & Dornan, D. (May 2015). The social inclusion of children with hearing loss educated using listening and spoken language: A novel approach to measurement and application. Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Canberra
Rushbrooke, E., Arnott, W., Constantinescu, G., Davis, A., Dornan, D., & Phillips, R. (September, 2015). Sound Outcomes: A “First Voice” investigation of speech and language outcomes for Australian children. Paper presented at the MED-EL Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Arnott, W., Rushbrooke, E., & Davis, A. (May, 2016). Children with hearing loss, early auditory-verbal intervention, and speech and language outcomes. Paper presented at the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Perth, Australia.