You can't learn if you can't hear - focus on ear health

Chris McLennan
Updated August 14 2018 - 1:28pm, first published 1:02pm
POOR START: Hearing loss can lead to delayed language development and speech, which can in turn lead to learning difficulties and behavioural problems and eventually to unemployment and poverty.
POOR START: Hearing loss can lead to delayed language development and speech, which can in turn lead to learning difficulties and behavioural problems and eventually to unemployment and poverty.

Nine out of every 10 Aboriginal children under the age of three in the NT suffer from an ear disease.

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Chris McLennan

Chris McLennan

National Rural Property Writer

ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.

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