Sam Harkus
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Audiologist @Hearing_Australia | Check ears & hearing six-monthly in young Aboriginal children/respond fast & well to long term probs.
Gadigal Land
Joined May 2013
Currently the best available guidance on when & how to check ear health in 0-5 year old Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children in primary health. Can’t stop here: new evidence can take 10-20 years to become routine practice. #earhealthforlife
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Prof @KelvinKongENT welcoming @ShellyChadha1 and all delegates and presenters to the #OMOZ2024 conference family. Love this conference ❤️ love this community ❤️❤️.
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#OMOZ2024 is go. Place to be if you work in #otitismedia & its impacts for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities. Uncle Perry Fuller welcoming us to Awabakal. Biggest ever turnout, huge # of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander delegates, & audiologists representing too.
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Great! Would ❤️ to see classroom amplification fully funded/maintained for younger classes. These systems boost the teacher’s voice, enough for kids to hear easily. 90% of young remote Aboriginal kids don’t hear well @AlboMP @JasonClareMP
theguardian.com
Commonwealth moves closer to fully funding all public schools in deal that will make ‘immediate difference’ in Northern Territory
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We (our team @NALresearch) are doing a project right now called 5000 PLUMs. '5000' because over 5000 sets of PLUM, ear health & hearing results are being studied. Here’s me talking about the project Happy to chat if you’d like to find out more.
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RT @_ALRAR_: A big result for tenants rights! We’re proud to have represented the people of Ltyentye Apurte in their fight for decent housi….
gratafund.org.au
The High Court has unanimously recognised the right of tenants to compensation for disappointment and distress when a rented house does not meet legal standards.
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Routine ear health & hearing checks for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children aged <6 yrs attending primary care: a national consensus statement. Now in @theMJA free Process had strong national Aboriginal & primary health input, led by @NALresearch
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RT @LowitjaInstitut: Aunty Pat Anderson AO & Professor Megan Davis @mdavisqlder thank you, thank you, thank you 🖤💛❤️.
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RT @troycassardaley: A “Yes” to acknowledge my Grand parents Irene and Harry Daley and all they gave us, respect and love to all x https://….
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*New* recommendations for primary health Ear Health & Hearing Checks for young Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children. Paper here ➡️ Main recommendations ⬇️. #earhealthforlife
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With what I know about public Ear Nose & Throat surgical waits for Aboriginal children, I applaud this: equity in action. Currently many spend YEARS waiting - with muted hearing during the most crucial communication skills-learning period of their lives
abc.net.au
The controversial tool has been implemented in Auckland, taking a person's ethnicity into account when placing them on non-urgent surgery waitlists.
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TERRIFIC talk from Rahaney Poelina, Nirrumbuk Environmental Health (EH) Services, Broome. When a family attends clinic with a problem linked to EH, & consent to EH referral, Nirrumbuk works with them on home hygiene, health hardware, managing crowding. Practical & confidential.
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…including through local family stories of ear health journeys. Bright, clear, useful, locally relevant materials, developed with input from community stakeholders.
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Wonderful ‘Your journey in ear health’ resources developed by the ear health team at @TheAHCWA in WA, localised for individual health services…
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