The Shepherd Centre works with a number of leading organisations in the hearing loss sector.
We are part of the highly regarded First Voice alliance, and work with other clinical and health related partners to bring some of the best early intervention services in the world.
Click on the partners listed below to find out more about who we work with.
The Shepherd Centre is a proud member of First Voice, a national alliance of member organisations whose primary focus is the provision of listening and spoken language for children who are deaf or hearing impaired.
First Voice is a strong, active and influential voice within the early intervention sector. Its lobbying efforts were instrumental in securing recurrent federal government funding for early intervention services for not only hearing impaired children, but across a range of other disability areas.
Many of the children that come to us benefit from implantable devices such as cochlear implants.
We work closely with pioneer and world industry leader, Cochlear Limited to provide the best possible solutions when it comes to implantable devices for your child. A cochlear implant is an established, effective and long-term solution for people with moderate to profound hearing loss.
Cochlear’s global headquarters is located directly across the road from our Macquarie centre at the Australian Hearing Hub offering us the opportunity for a close working relationship to provide the best technology for your child.
Our Macquarie centre is based in the Australian Hearing Hub in the heart of innovative Macquarie University.
Founded by the university the Australian Hearing Hub brings together some of the country’s best researchers, educators and service providers to improve the lives of people who experience hearing and language disorders. Together, academics at Macquarie University and staff at the Australian Hearing Hub are pioneering a new approach to collaboration, which fosters opportunities for innovation across a wide range of fields.
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick is one of Australia’s leading specialist medical centres for children, caring for seriously ill and injured children from across NSW and beyond. It forms part of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network.
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick provides a complex and comprehensive range of services in paediatric and adolescent medicine and surgery, treating children with conditions including cancer, trauma, HIV/AIDS, congenital abnormalities, disabilities, heart disease and respiratory disorder.
The HEARing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is a collaboration of 21 internationally-recognised organisations. Together, through research efforts, The HEARing CRC will lay the foundation for a new era of hearing healthcare for Australia.
Usher syndrome is a rare genetic condition characterised by hearing loss or deafness, the progressive loss of vision and in some cases, vestibular dysfunction and up until now, there has been no support network in Australia dedicated to children.
UsherKids Australia is a resource and contact point for all families of children with Usher syndrome in Australia.
We also hope it will be a valuable tool for clinicians and support services in contact with children with Usher syndrome nationally.
Find out more here.
The Shepherd Centre is a world-leading, child-safe NDIS service provider and specialist in helping children with hearing loss learn to listen and speak. We have helped thousands of children reach their full potential for over 50 years.
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