Australian early intervention program for deaf children piloted in Japan

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Renata Reis and sons Gabriel and Luca Source: SBS

An Australian early intervention program for deaf children is, for the first time, being piloted overseas. The therapy is for children whose family have chosen for them to be fitted with a hearing device such as a cochlear implant. The collaboration between not-for-profit The Shepherd Centre and health officials in Japan is a decade in the making.


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