Advisory Council For Children With Impaired Hearing
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Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsLobbyistsHistoryThe Advisory Council was formed in 1967 to advocate a greater understanding and improved education for children with impaired hearing. It was instrumental in the establishment of 'Taralye' Centre and the Reading unit at Yarra Valley Anglican School. The Council's aims include fostering research on children with impaired hearing, providing post graduate scholarships in the field, conducting a library and information service, organising clinical services and suitable playgroup activitites for affected children, publishing information and setting up pilot units in normal schools for the purpose of integrating children with impaired hearing into the mainstream education system. The records reflect, as does their transfer to these Archives, the tireless efforts of Nancy John in the cause of education for deaf children. A teacher in special subjects and herself the mother of a deaf child, she formed a play-group for hearing impaired and normal children in 1944 and was later active in establishing public bodies such as the Victorian Committee for Promotion of Oral Education of the Deaf in 1950 and the Advisory Council for Children with Impaired Hearing.
Advisory Council For Children With Impaired Hearing. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 06/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/57637
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