International Conference Life-Long Learning

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia14-15 Nov 2011

An Australasian e-Learning Solution to Overcome the Global Pandemic that is

Paediatric Hearing Loss

Megan HastieHear and Say WorldWide e-Learning Manager

Brisbane Australia

A global pandemic

Hearing loss affects approximately 278 million people who have moderate to profound hearing impairment

80% of these living in low-and middle-income countries

1 to 3 children in every 1000 world-wide

Urgent solutions needed

We have a brilliant solution

The Hear and Say way

Auditory-Verbal Therapy A-VT

The Auditory brain

From 20 weeks

Neuroscience

Centre for Neuroscience Research

Dr Guy Elston and Japanese colleagues

Auditory neural pathways

The brain is the organ of hearing!

e-Learning is the solution

training more Auditory-Verbal Therapists

Blended cyber mode

Using a combination of different instructional methods,

different modalities and delivery media, Online and Face-to-Face Instruction.

Participants may be physically present and/or ‘cyber’.

Asynchronous

Synchronous

Hear and Say WorldWide

The bigger story

Intensive auditory stimulation is vital for brain development for listening and speaking

for ALL children

A-VT + e-learning

the great enabler, the great equaliser

Our great hope!

Hearing is believing

Thank you for listening!

http://www.hearandsaycentre.com.au/seeourchoirsing.html