The Now Hear Continuum

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1 The Now Hear Continuum 2016 Australian and New Zealand Conference for Educators of the Deaf Denyse Bainbridge 9 th July 2016

2 School Support Services Student Support Hearing Team» Denyse Bainbridge Senior Advisor» Marie Hayek Darwin/Palmerston» Lynnette Rosenberg Darwin/Palmerston/Arnhem/Katherine» Christine Brickhill Alice Springs/Barkly

3 Northern Territory Context NSW 7,644,200 Vic. 5,966,700 NT 244,500

4 Distribution of Population

5 Regional, Rural and Remote Communities

6 Cities and Towns

7 Indigenous Population»About 30% of the NT population, or 72,250 at June 2014 were Indigenous (10% of Australia s Indigenous population).»the majority of the NT Indigenous population reside in very remote locations.

8 Young Growing Population Three-quarters (75%) of the NT s very remote population are Indigenous and for the school-age population the Indigenous proportion is higher at almost nine out of ten people.

9 Young Growing Population

10 Northern Territory Communities Aputula (Finke) Community Wadeye Community

11 Northern Territory Islands Bathurst Island

12 Travel to Rural and Remote Schools

13 Travel to Remote Schools

14 Client Group Permanent/Long Term SNHL & CHL High Needs - Direct support to clients, schools and families Moderate to Low Needs Monitored: support through school

15 Client Group Fluctuating/Temporary Conductive HL 2013/2014 Number of Indigenous NT Children from Remote Communities seen with - Hearing Loss 61% (963) - Chronic (long term) Ear Disease 41% (887) - Transient Ear Disease 30% (624) - No Ear Disease 29% (586) Population Based Strategies

16 Indigenous Education Review Commissioned in 2013 To get an informed understanding of the impact of programs and initiatives To make recommendations to optimise education and training outcomes for Indigenous students Published in 2014

17 Indigenous Education Review The review report made a number of recommendations which were endorsed by government. A 10-year Indigenous Education Strategy was developed to implement the recommendations of the review.

18 Indigenous Education Review Chapter 11: Wellbeing and Behaviour Respondents to the review drew attention to a range of specific and general health issues that impact on learning. Most prominent among these was otitis media and the consequent conductive hearing loss. (p 184) With the possible exception of social and emotional issues, the hearing issue is the most prevalent barrier faced by Indigenous children in the NT. (p 184) The Now Hear program was designed specifically for the NT to support children with hearing loss. (p 185) - The Now Hear continuum is a tool that provides schools with a guide to maximise the learning environment for students with conductive hearing loss. (p 185) - These matters cannot be addressed within education alone. As noted here and elsewhere, there is a critical need for an integrated approach across health and education, and in some cases more broadly. (p 186)

19 Indigenous Education Review Chapter 11: Wellbeing and Behaviour Recommendations 38. Work with the Behaviour Management Taskforce to develop and resource a whole-system approach to behaviour management and wellbeing, including: c. mandating the use of Now Hear in all Priority 1 schools and other schools with students experiencing the effects of conductive hearing loss, along with provision of specialist hearing support and the investigation of amplification and acoustic treatment of classrooms;

20 Now Hear Continuum Beginning with 19 schools o These schools will have had 32 principals since the end of 2015 (6 months) Hearing Team o 4 Positions 6 different advisors in the past 12 months

21 Now Hear Continuum Overview Acoustics and Amplification Classroom/Teaching Strategies Ear Health Identification and Management of Hearing Loss Program Sustainability Whole school approach

22 Now Hear Continuum Audit Action Plan Evaluation Professional Development

23 ihearing Project Department of Health - developing software and a database to provide up to date electronic information about children's ear health and hearing status. Working with the Hearing Team to provide educational recommendations that are automatically triggered based on both the latest information and ear and hearing history.

24 ihearing Project This information: will be able to be accessed on individual children, by class, school and region will be able to be accessed by teachers, Special Education Teachers, Principals etc. for their own schools will be able to provide teachers with the most effective teaching and learning strategies for their class cohort, based on the most recent ear health and hearing information can provide cost effective recommendations about individual and class amplification and adjustments can be a centralised place to register the use of sound field systems in schools can be a centralised place to show where each school is up to with the Now Hear Continuum

25 ihearing Project

26 ihearing Project

27 NCCD Nationally consistent data collection Currently, each state and territory counts its students with disability on a different basis. The model is intended to count the number of students with disability in a consistent manner across Australia.

28 Hearing Health Care Plans

29 Hearing Awareness Program BBC Program/How the ear works Transition How the ear works/ear and nose hygiene/ear infections Year 1 Learning is hard if we can t hear/noises can hurt our ears Year 2 Noise pollution/developing strategies when we can t hear well Year 3 Hearing is one of the 5 senses/making healthy choices

30 Hearing Awareness Program BBC Program/How the ear works Year 4 People who help us with our ears and hearing Year 5 Cultural Hearing Year 6 Sound and Music

31 Classroom Acoustic Kits South Australia Northern Territory 2015

32 Arnhem Land Galuwin ku DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION