Professor Leigh is Director of the NextSense Institute, and Chair, Australasian Newborn Hearing Screening Committee. The committee is working towards a consensus position on hearing screening in children beyond the newborn period. NextSense – formerly the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children – is a 161-year-old not-for-profit organisation providing services to people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision across Australia. It is a leader in research and professional education in sensory disability.
Australia has an internationally regarded, gold-standard network of universal newborn hearing screening programs. Those programs, operating in every state and territory, serve to identify most
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