Hearing Awareness Week Open Day 2012
Hearing & Balance Centre will be holding it's 10th Hearing Awareness Week open day on Saturday 18th August from 10am to 2pm.
Please join us in the foyer on level 4 at St Vincent's Hospital Darlinghurst. Learn about the latest new hearing aid technology. Attend presentations on hearing and the brain, tinnitus, listening tactics for hearing impaired people and more.
This event is free and open to the general public, family and friends.
Click here for the full program.
About the Hearing & Balance Centre Open Day
In September 2003 the Hearing & Balance Centre held its inaugural open day. Planned to co-inside with Hearing Awareness Week (HAW), patients, family, friends and the general public were all invited to visit the centre.
The day proved to be so popular we have continued each year during HAW to provide people with the opportunity to:
- Attend an informative talk on topics such as:
- Surgical solutions to hearing loss
- Stem cell research and hearing loss
- Hearing Aid Technology updates
- Maintaining your Hearing Aid
- Protecting your hearing
- Implantable hearing devices
- Have their hearing and balance questions answered by our team
- Experience the latest in hearing aid technology. Each year several hearing aid manufacturers are invited to join us and demonstrate new developments in hearing aids. Many people get the opportunity to try new technology on the spot.
- Learn about our tinnitus management program
- Have a hearing screening test