Resources
Families
Healthy Hearing program resources and information for families.
- Check list for your baby’s Hearing and speech
- CMV Parent Information
- Screening locations
- Screening process
- Your baby’s free hearing screen This brochure is given to parents prior to the screen, and used as part of the informed consent process (translations available).
- Your baby’s follow-up hearing test This brochure is issued to parents whose baby’s are born with risk factors of developing a hearing loss as they grow older.
An in-depth consultation with parents was undertaken in 2005/2006, which resulted in the Face to Face report which has been used extensively to inform program development in Queensland and elsewhere.
This report provides a powerful insight into parents’ experiences of children with a permanent hearing loss.
- How you go safe if I listen you?
- A video resource for Thursday Island regarding newborn hearing screening.
- Sound beginnings: understanding your child’s hearing loss.
- Between you and me: communicating with your baby.
For information on ordering resources please contact e: Healthy_Hearing@health.qld.gov.au
Interpreter services
The Interpreter Services Coordinator within our Hospitals and Health Services is to support the delivery of interpreter services to clients who are not fluent in English or are hearing impaired.
Their role is to:
- book, confirm and verify interpreter services
- develop and deliver awareness strategies for interpreter services
- organise staff training
- work with interpreters.
For more information, visit our Interpreter Services page.
Translated resources
The Healthy Hearing brochures ‘Your baby’s free hearing screen’ and the Healthy Hearing consent form is available in other languages.
Health professionals
Data sharing
Early intervention
Guidelines
- Medical guidelines for children born with a permanent hearing loss
- Medical guidelines for the assessment of children with permanent hearing loss poster
Screening guidelines and protocols
To assure newborn hearing screening uniformity across all Queensland birthing facilities both public and private newborn hearing screening sites are encouraged to refer to the Healthy Hearing Guidelines and Protocols.
Healthy Hearing parent and service provider consultation
The Queensland Healthy Hearing program has a Consultative Group that consists of parental, clinical, and academic representatives.
An in-depth consultation with parents was undertaken in 2005/2006, which resulted in the Face to Face report which has been used extensively to inform program development in Queensland and elsewhere. This report provides a powerful insight into parents’ experiences of children with a permanent hearing loss.
For more information about the Consultation Group please contact us e: Healthy_Hearing@health.qld.gov.au.
Education, training and workshops
Welcome to the Queensland Health Healthy Hearing Online Training Portal.
Ordering resources
Please order your new Consent forms through the WINC website and quote code SW011.
