Indigenous Children

Research suggests preventing and reducing hearing impairment is likely to benefit the educational outcomes of Indigenous children in a number of ways.

Early childhood is said to be a critical period that can influence a range of health and social outcomes throughout the life course, consequently having such a disability in an area as common as hearing can prove to be a major hindrance on the learning capability of any child.

According to research undertaken by… “up to 27% of indigenous children in western Australia have significant restraints in vision, hearing or speech and are 30% more likely to require assistance with learning or communicating, have a core need for assistance, and a profound or severe disability, than aged matched non-indigenous

Research by… suggests that such disabilities as OM are assumed to have a “significant impact on the developmental outcomes of aboriginal children, with particular effect on the development of language and social skills, and ultimately a broader range of educational outcomes…”

An initiative funded by… and run by…. Studied and developed quality early learning interventions to detect and trigger support for the hearing impaired, in the hope of making a difference to life-long outcomes of indigenous children through education.

From this study it was suggested that developments in the early years of a child’s educational journey would the potential to reduce social, economic and health disparities within a generation (Inserts reference or author)

Such an idea can be perceived through regular hearing screening programs run in primary schools in Western Australia in …

Having the ability to detect and prompt appropriate treatment for children with such forms of hearing loss or damage is seen to be a small but significant step in the understanding of the link between education and hearing