thank you I to owners of this land who
educated their children here I’d like to
start by introducing you to Sara this is
a video of Sara when she was just five
years old and she’s about to start
school what else is on your uniform and
what color would your dress be now I’m
sure you’ll all agree that sara is super
cute and very chatty but what is
remarkable about that video is that Sara
was born profoundly deaf
she had no hearing whatsoever hearing
aids could not help her to hear
so I perform cochlear implant surgery
for her when she was less than one year
old and through the cochlear implant she
has learned to listen to hear and to
speak normally does the modern-day
miracle a cochlear implant where
otherwise she would have lived in a
world of silence a daring decision for
her parents to make to decide when she
was just a baby to have surgery but what
a fantastic decision because it’s meant
that she could learn to hear and speak
normally let me tell you a bit about
hearing and the cochlear implant sound
waves travel through your ear canal and
are picked up by your eardrum the middle
ear magnifies that mechanical movement
of the sound waves and it’s sent into
the inner ear the inner ear takes out
mechanical energy and changes the
changes it to electrical energy and we
then have a signal going up the hearing
nerve through to the brain and we hear
that as conscious sound as spoken
language or music or various sounds now
the cochlear implant is able to mimic a
natural hearing if something doesn’t
work if our inner hair cells don’t work
if the transmission between the inner
hair cells and the nerves don’t work or
if the nerves don’t work well so the
cochlear implant can compensate for that
and can send that signal up through to
the brain the cochlear implant is made
up of two components there’s an external
component that picks up sound changes it
to a digital code and sends it through
to the internal component the internal
component then sends that digital code
down into that little array inside the
cochlea and sets off a signal on our
hearing nerve and we can hear now
hearing loss is a major problem in
Australia one in six people have hearing
loss that’s 3.4 3.6 a million people in
Australia and 150,000 people have severe
or profound hearing loss that’s where
they would do better with the implant
than they do with the hearing aids they
would hear more through the cochlear
implant the World Health Organization
suggests that about 5% of the world are
here a living with disabling hearing
loss that’s 466 million people and of
which 34 million are children now the
impacts of hearing loss are far-reaching
for children it means that they often
can’t learn to speak and have difficulty
communicating with friends and family if
you’re a child and you can’t learn to
speak then you might not actually get an
education because for many places in the
world they only have
and language schools so if you can’t
hear you can’t learn to speak you
actually don’t go to school and that’s a
terrible thing for adults they might
find it harder to use the phone to hear
people in meetings they’re having to lip
read and guess what people are saying
and so they feel exhausted at the end of
the day and for the oddly hearing loss
leads to social isolation depression and
is an independent risk factor for
dementia so we really need to raise
awareness that people don’t have to
suffer in silence that we can offer them
more get them hearing better with a
cochlear implant now we have this
wonderful technology the cochlear
implant
professor Graham Clark invented the
Australian device which is used
worldwide we have Australian hearing a
government-funded body that provides
free hearing aids to children and to
pensioners but even in Australia with
arguably the best hearing care in the
world only one in ten people who would
benefit from a cochlear implant have
received one it’s just a drop in the
ocean why is this so why have not more
people been able to be benefited by
having a cochlear implant now these
reasons are probably very multifactorial
but one of the main reasons is that
people just don’t realize they don’t
realize that they could hear more with a
cochlear implant that there is some
solution to their hearing problem so we
really need to raise awareness for
people to understand that they could
benefit from a cochlear implant now my
patients all follow their own unique
individual paths they have their own
hearing journey and the cochlear implant
is only a moment in time and for them
their journey with hearing doesn’t stop
there they have to learn to listen
through the cochlear implant to retrain
their brain to pay attention to sound
but for you all you all have your own
journey your own unique path that you
will follow and that you will make and
that it will make you the person that
you are everyone takes a daring leap
into the unknown daring to grow as
people be a positive influence so
whether you’re going to be a positive
influence as an individual like me
helping one patient at a time
or maybe you being kind to a friend or
dare I say being kind to somebody who’s
not your friend or you can be a positive
influence at a community level the
country level or at a worldwide level
when I was at school I loved doing
crafts I was one of four girls doing
Industrial Arts at a co-ed high school
and then I changed to girls school in
year nine and had to do sewing now was
that all a waste of time no way for a
surgeon I could use a drill I could use
a hammer I was good at putting things
together and could see things in 3d and
on top of that I could sew neatly so I
think is a waste of time our paths are
often binding with unplanned detour I
knew I wanted to be a MIDI nose and
throat surgeon and ent I changed
hospitals so that I could do a junior
ayant position called a resident the
next year I got on to the training
scheme to become an ENT registrar and I
was able to take full opportunity
position right from the front so from
the beginning because I’d already done
the neurosurgical registrar job and the
ante registrar
thanks and so I was able to take the
opportunities right from the beginning
and really enjoy and participate in the
operations so all experiences health
I really encourage you to take these
opportunities because it will build with
the person that you’re going to be and
so finally look after your hearing noise
exposure is the most common cause of
hearing loss and these days it’s
commonly due to kids having their music
are way too loud then blasted by your
earphones or earbuds into your ears so
look after hearing don’t have your music
up too loudly and then hopefully in the
future you won’t have to see an ENT surgeon like me
educated their children here I’d like to
start by introducing you to Sara this is
a video of Sara when she was just five
years old and she’s about to start
school what else is on your uniform and
what color would your dress be now I’m
sure you’ll all agree that sara is super
cute and very chatty but what is
remarkable about that video is that Sara
was born profoundly deaf
she had no hearing whatsoever hearing
aids could not help her to hear
so I perform cochlear implant surgery
for her when she was less than one year
old and through the cochlear implant she
has learned to listen to hear and to
speak normally does the modern-day
miracle a cochlear implant where
otherwise she would have lived in a
world of silence a daring decision for
her parents to make to decide when she
was just a baby to have surgery but what
a fantastic decision because it’s meant
that she could learn to hear and speak
normally let me tell you a bit about
hearing and the cochlear implant sound
waves travel through your ear canal and
are picked up by your eardrum the middle
ear magnifies that mechanical movement
of the sound waves and it’s sent into
the inner ear the inner ear takes out
mechanical energy and changes the
changes it to electrical energy and we
then have a signal going up the hearing
nerve through to the brain and we hear
that as conscious sound as spoken
language or music or various sounds now
the cochlear implant is able to mimic a
natural hearing if something doesn’t
work if our inner hair cells don’t work
if the transmission between the inner
hair cells and the nerves don’t work or
if the nerves don’t work well so the
cochlear implant can compensate for that
and can send that signal up through to
the brain the cochlear implant is made
up of two components there’s an external
component that picks up sound changes it
to a digital code and sends it through
to the internal component the internal
component then sends that digital code
down into that little array inside the
cochlea and sets off a signal on our
hearing nerve and we can hear now
hearing loss is a major problem in
Australia one in six people have hearing
loss that’s 3.4 3.6 a million people in
Australia and 150,000 people have severe
or profound hearing loss that’s where
they would do better with the implant
than they do with the hearing aids they
would hear more through the cochlear
implant the World Health Organization
suggests that about 5% of the world are
here a living with disabling hearing
loss that’s 466 million people and of
which 34 million are children now the
impacts of hearing loss are far-reaching
for children it means that they often
can’t learn to speak and have difficulty
communicating with friends and family if
you’re a child and you can’t learn to
speak then you might not actually get an
education because for many places in the
world they only have
and language schools so if you can’t
hear you can’t learn to speak you
actually don’t go to school and that’s a
terrible thing for adults they might
find it harder to use the phone to hear
people in meetings they’re having to lip
read and guess what people are saying
and so they feel exhausted at the end of
the day and for the oddly hearing loss
leads to social isolation depression and
is an independent risk factor for
dementia so we really need to raise
awareness that people don’t have to
suffer in silence that we can offer them
more get them hearing better with a
cochlear implant now we have this
wonderful technology the cochlear
implant
professor Graham Clark invented the
Australian device which is used
worldwide we have Australian hearing a
government-funded body that provides
free hearing aids to children and to
pensioners but even in Australia with
arguably the best hearing care in the
world only one in ten people who would
benefit from a cochlear implant have
received one it’s just a drop in the
ocean why is this so why have not more
people been able to be benefited by
having a cochlear implant now these
reasons are probably very multifactorial
but one of the main reasons is that
people just don’t realize they don’t
realize that they could hear more with a
cochlear implant that there is some
solution to their hearing problem so we
really need to raise awareness for
people to understand that they could
benefit from a cochlear implant now my
patients all follow their own unique
individual paths they have their own
hearing journey and the cochlear implant
is only a moment in time and for them
their journey with hearing doesn’t stop
there they have to learn to listen
through the cochlear implant to retrain
their brain to pay attention to sound
but for you all you all have your own
journey your own unique path that you
will follow and that you will make and
that it will make you the person that
you are everyone takes a daring leap
into the unknown daring to grow as
people be a positive influence so
whether you’re going to be a positive
influence as an individual like me
helping one patient at a time
or maybe you being kind to a friend or
dare I say being kind to somebody who’s
not your friend or you can be a positive
influence at a community level the
country level or at a worldwide level
when I was at school I loved doing
crafts I was one of four girls doing
Industrial Arts at a co-ed high school
and then I changed to girls school in
year nine and had to do sewing now was
that all a waste of time no way for a
surgeon I could use a drill I could use
a hammer I was good at putting things
together and could see things in 3d and
on top of that I could sew neatly so I
think is a waste of time our paths are
often binding with unplanned detour I
knew I wanted to be a MIDI nose and
throat surgeon and ent I changed
hospitals so that I could do a junior
ayant position called a resident the
next year I got on to the training
scheme to become an ENT registrar and I
was able to take full opportunity
position right from the front so from
the beginning because I’d already done
the neurosurgical registrar job and the
ante registrar
thanks and so I was able to take the
opportunities right from the beginning
and really enjoy and participate in the
operations so all experiences health
I really encourage you to take these
opportunities because it will build with
the person that you’re going to be and
so finally look after your hearing noise
exposure is the most common cause of
hearing loss and these days it’s
commonly due to kids having their music
are way too loud then blasted by your
earphones or earbuds into your ears so
look after hearing don’t have your music
up too loudly and then hopefully in the
future you won’t have to see an ENT surgeon like me
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