Rehabilitation refers to care that can help people recover their health and functioning in daily life. Rehabilitation can be beneficial for most ear and hearing problems that First Nations people experience. Information about rehabilitation services can be used to better target health services in areas of greatest need.
Rehabilitation services for those with ear or hearing problems include:
- fitting of hearing aids and cochlear implants
- providing other listening devices that can help people with hearing problems, such as hearing loops – a special type of sound system for people with hearing aids
- audiology-related counselling, speech and occupational therapy, audiology services and other allied health services.
Rehabilitation can be assisted by a hearing inclusive environment, for example by:
- making hearing loops available in public spaces
- better design of spaces to reduce background noise
- the use of Australian sign language, known as Auslan, and other interpreting services
- using text captions on a visual display such as a television to capture the sound component of a program
- efforts to reduce hearing loss stigma and discrimination.
This chapter covers the following information:
Data tables in Excel spreadsheet format can be accessed at the Data tab.
About the data
Information in this section comes from Hearing Australia.
More information about this data source is provided in the following subsections.
