Speech Pathology Week/Hearing Awareness Week

This week across Australia two awareness campaigns focus on closely related matters of importance to people with Down syndrome:

Hearing Awareness Week

The interactive 'How loud is it?' gauge on the home page shows you how loud everyday sounds are, and allows you to compare them - you might be surprised. Lots of other useful resources are linked from the website.

Has the person in your life who has Down syndrome had a hearing assessment in the last two years?

Hearing is one of the major determinants of speech development in people with Down syndrome.



Speech Pathology Week

... Speech Pathology Week this year is part of a larger international communication - along with some of our sister organisations around the world, SPA is working to create a year dedicated to raising awareness of communication disability – and its next year! 2014 is The International Communication Project and as a global profession, we will firmly put communication disability front and centre on the world health stage.