A national hearing assessment program has identified almost 500 Indigenous children with undiagnosed hearing loss in its first year of operation | EllaMareeAB
A national hearing assessment program has identified almost 500 Indigenous children with undiagnosed hearing loss in its first year of operation.
Ms Longbottom, an Aboriginal health practitioner at the Waminda Women’s Health Centre in Nowra, directs local families to the screening program to help their children avoid the same fate. An Indigenous child will typically endure middle ear infections for at least 32 months, compared with three months for a non-Indigenous child, from age two to 20 years, according to the Australian Medical Association.
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