Hearing Awareness WeekSouth Australian Hearing Awareness Week will be launched at 10am on Monday 23 August at Arndale Shopping CentreCora Barclay celebrates Hearing Awareness Week with a range of activities available free to all the community.

Music for under Fours - Bookings Essential: Call 8267 9200 Come and try a free session: Mon 10 - 10.45am Tues 10 – 11.15am or Wed 10 - 11.15am.

Parent Infant Playgroup - Friday 9.30 - 11.30am A chance to meet other families and children with hearing loss.

Free Hearing Tests - Wednesday 10 - 3pm With Audiologist Adrian Galindo: Bookings Essential call: 8267 9200

Further On Wednesday 25 August - 7 - 9.30pm To be held at St Andrew’s Church Parish Centre 43 Church Terrace Walkerville – all welcome – don’t miss this great night! Cora Barclay Centre new Patron His Excellency, The Governor, will speak at the event and Mrs Scarce will also be in attendance.

Moment in Time Fundraising Dinner Wednesday 1 SeptemberFollowing a very successful and enjoyable evening last year, the Cora Barclay Centre are again holding their annual ‘Moment in Time’ Ladies dinner on Wednesday 1st September at the Adelaide Pavilion Restaurant, Veale Gardens, South Terrace Adelaide.

The Guest speaker will be the very entertaining Sophie Thompson, ABC gardening presenter and author. Tickets are $50 and include a delicious 2 course dinner and champagne on arrival. For bookings please phone the Cora Barclay Centre on 8267 9200.

Funds raised will support purchases for the new playground at the Centre.

Brilliant Broadway Charity Concert Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 November - Elder Hall For bookings please phone the Cora Barclay Centre on 8267 9200.

Mark your diary! Dates & Events to Remember

THANK YOUWe would like to thank the

talented Adlab team for kindly donating the Winter issue newsletter.

Luke, Peter, kids and the balloon

Winter 2010

Another SuccessThank you to everyone who participated in Loud Shirt Day 2010 was another successful fundraising event for the Centre. Special thanks go to ambassadors Peter Walsh from ABC 891, Cosi from SAFM, from Channel 7’s Home and Away Axle Whitehead and especially to Luke Jacobz who flew into Adelaide on Sunday May 8th for the launch day. Goldrush Balloons from Strathalbyn made it a memorable

day for the many children lucky enough to have

their first exciting experience of a hot

air balloon ride.

BRILLIANT BROADWAYElder Hall Sat 20 & Sun 21 November 2010

3 fabulous charity performances featuring hits from: Oklahoma!

West Side Story ~ South Pacific Rent ~ Jeckyl & Hyde

Les Miserable ~ and More November: Saturday 20th ~ 2pm & 8pm; Sunday 21st ~ 2pm

Proudly presented by: Rotary Club of Adelaide West & Grote Business Precinct

Advance bookings now open Phone: Cora Barclay Centre

Tickets: Adults $45 Concessions $35 ~ Students $25

Groups of 10+ $40pp

From the CEOBuilding Extension set to proceed

2011 Cora Barclay Centre’s 65th Anniversary: We Need Your Help!

On Monday 21 July as the Board deliberated on the challenges presented by our growing caseload of deaf and hearing impaired babies, the Adelaide City Council was thankfully approving our Planning Application for a 3 story building at the back of our Melbourne Street property.

The extension will retain car parking at ground level and have two floors for additional therapy rooms, a large room for music and parent/infant groups (now held nearly every day), a library/ resource centre for families and staff, and hopefully (subject to funding) a second audiology sound booth.

Building is scheduled to start in September and to be finished by early in the New Year, with everything in absolute readiness for first term, 2011. To date we have received several grants towards the cost of the building and have money from a bequest to put towards the project as well. Approaches are being made to various philanthropic bodies and to the State Government for the balance of the funding. Obviously, contributions from any quarter would be gratefully received!

Those of you who have been following our fortunes will know that since moving to the Melbourne Street Centre in February 2007 our Early intervention (0-5 years) caseload has trebled from 21 in 2006 (when the Government’s newborn hearing screening program commenced) to over 60 in June this year. Staff numbers have gone from 13 to 20 plus a big increase in volunteers. So we’re bursting at the seams to the point where 7 staff share the main administration office

and our principal audiologist has had to sacrifice his office to our newest Auditory Verbal Therapist Intern and de-camp into my office. It’s definitely time to expand.Michael Forwood

The Cora Barclay Centre is the oldest organization in the Southern Hemisphere established for the purpose of teaching deaf children to listen and speak– and next year we celebrate our 65th Anniversary.

Part of our plan is to track down former students, families and staff and to have a Monster BBQ or Picnic that is fun and affordable for everyone who has been associated with the Centre or its predecessor (the SA Oral School and Kindergarten 1946- 1989). A Family Day on, say, the Walkerville Oval near the old school site seems a great idea.

We are looking for volunteer coordinators (perhaps past students, families or staff) to help track down their fellow students.

If you’re interested in helping please contact Pam or Margie at the Centre (08 8267 9200) or email us at a d m i n i s t r a t i o n @corabarclay.com.au. Admin support will be provided and I promise it will be fun! We would like to start collecting oral histories of former students and staff which would be a fascinating project so we look forward to hearing from you.

Program Manager’s Report

The class of 1947

The first mothers’ meeting, 1945

I have just returned to Australia after attending the Alexander Graham Bell Association Symposium in Orlando, Florida. It was a surreal experience to drive to Orlando Airport, at the end of the conference, in 35 degree heat and to eventually walk from Adelaide Airport into a very cold 15 degrees. The midnight swims in the hotel swimming pool were the icing on the cake for another brilliant AG Bell conference, which attracted professionals and families of deaf and hearing impaired from

across the US and further afield. As the peak oral deafness conference in the world, the symposium attracted many notable presenters and provided an expose of the most current thinking in the field. I attended a number of excellent presentations; popular topics included bilateral cochlear implantation, social skills development, best practice in early intervention and School Support as well as a fascinating research symposium titled, ‘Re-modelling the deafened cochlea for auditory sensation: Advances and obstacles.’ I have returned with much exciting information to share with my clinical colleagues.

A personal highlight of the symposium was to catch up with our wonderful AV mentors, Lea and Jim Watson, who travelled from their beautiful home in Massachusettes, to spend eight valuable months at Cora Barclay Centre in 2006/07. Lea and Jim are both Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapists,

who have personally contributed a great deal to the progress of AVT. Jim is also the great, great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. They both send their love to the many families who are still on service, as well as staff, from when they were visiting and assisting the Centre.

On another note, a new professional text, titled, ‘Auditory-Verbal Practice: Toward a Family-centred Approach’ has recently been released. The exciting news is that not only is the book edited by Dr Jill Duncan, previous Director of the Cora Barclay Centre, but also that three staff have contributed to the book. I have a copy for those who may wish to peruse the contents.

Robyn Phillips

Stop PressNews, gossip & snippets

2011 Cora Barclay Centre’s 65th Anniversary: We Need Your Help!

Welcome to Joy Althrop – our new family counsellor

A warm welcome to Joy Althorpe, Clinical Psychologist to our team. Joy is a highly qualified, very experienced clinical psychologist and mother of 6. Joy will be available for appointments every Monday morning and all day Friday. This is a vital part of our service. Disability has an impact on the whole family and effects the dynamics and relationships between all members. Having a child with a disability can be confusing and stressful and there are times when professional help can be very supportive.

Fire safety DVD now has captions THE State Government’s Prepare Act Survive DVD to prepare people for the bushfire season is now accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired. Parents of Hearing Impaired SA’s President Naomi Higgs and her profoundly deaf son Adam were recently interviewed in the Hills and Valley Messenger Press.

“People have died in bushfires and this information needs to be accessible to everybody,” she said. Free copies of the captioned DVD are available from the CFS community education department. Details: 1300 362 361 (via TTY 133677), PO Box 2468 GPO Adelaide 5001 or community.ed@cfs.sa.gov.au.

Parent Profile:Henner Casteneda

I came to Australia from Venezuela in Feb 2006 with my pregnant wife Rommy. Cynthia was born in June that year at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital were she was diagnosed with profound hearing lost. This were very difficult times as we had recently arrived to a new country, we were also new in the parenting world and Cynthia was born deaf and we did not know much about this impairment. We heard of the different options for Cynthia and we decided that if she could have the opportunity to talk, then we should give her the opportunity to hear and talk. We went to the Cora Barclay Centre when Cynthia was about 6 months old. There we received information about the AV Therapy and we thought this would be the best option for her after seeing and listening to other parents in the centre who had been attending the CBC. Since those early days I have been actively involved in my daughter’s therapy and often go with Rommy to attend weekly sessions with Chris. Cynthia is now aged 4 and is doing really well and learning to talk in Spanish and English which is also a new experience for CBC having a deaf child learning two languages at the same time.

Henner has been a great supporter of the Centre through his fundraising efforts with the City to Bay campaign and as an employee of BHP Billiton he secured dollar for dollar matched fundraising, with a fantastic outcome for the Centre. We are very grateful for his on going support.

New from Cochlear Limited is the Nucleus 5 or CP810. Any individual receiving an implant for the first time will receive this new implant and processor ensemble. Cochlear have a history of continuous improvement of their products based on sound research and listening to their customers needs and the Nucleus 5 is intended to improve the hearing capability of implantees as well as being easier to operate and maintain. There are two main groups of people who receive implants; prelingual severe to profound deaf children and postlingual severe to profound hearing impaired adults and their needs are very different. The Nucleus 5 represents Cochlear Ltd’s recognition of the different requirements of these two groups.

Most obviously the processor comes with a remote control. Unlike most remote controls, the new Nucleus 5 ‘remote assistant’ as it is called has both a transmit and receive ability. The processor talks back to the remote and can be used to diagnose faults with the processor. The status of a processor or pair of processors can be assessed without taking the processor off the head. Battery locks and connectors for the new processor have been greatly improved for increased durability and the new processor has the batteries mounted sideways so that the unit is smaller than before. The processor also has a lock so that buttons cannot change settings

The new implant that accompanies the new processor is markedly smaller (thinner) which will mean less bone removal during surgery and should increase reliability. The new processor is giving improved benefit to hearing in noisy situations (12% improvement on mean results from the freedom processor when beam program is used).

Existing users of the Freedom processor may be eligible for an upgrade to a Nucleus 5. At the moment the upgraded processor will only work with the specific CI24 implants. The list of implants which can be upgraded will probably grow in due course. There are two options for upgrading: private health funds or through Australian Hearing. Both have specific requirements before an upgrade is made available with Medibank Private placing the least onerous conditions on upgrading. Any questions on new devices and/or upgrading can be addressed to Adrian Galindo Cora Barclay Centre audiologist.

Audiology NewsWilliam Woytowych, Cora Barclay’s consultant

cochlear implant audiologist and classroom acoustics expert, has embarked on more academic training.

He has started a doctorate at A.T. Still University in Arizona in the USA. There is a common core of study

that all Doctor of Audiology students must take and the university offers a broader exposure than a

typical PHD program. He plans on graduating in 2013.

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Fundraising News A Carols by Candlelight cheque of $25,000, from the 2009 event, was presented to John Wicks, Michael Forwood and Claire Harris at The Advertiser building on Friday 11th June. We are very grateful for this assistance which goes directly to the Centre’s early intervention program.

Appreciation to the Crows Foundation for funds to purchase a new Sonic Ultraclean for the Centre’s Audiology Department. Jill Moss, Crows Marketing Manager visited the Centre recently to find out more about services for children who are deaf.

Raine & Horne and all the other sponsors who assisted with the inaugural Loud Lycra Bike Ride

City to Bay Parent Committee is already underway with plans to grow the Cora Barclay Walking for Talking team to 500 in 2010.

AMP Foundation is onboard again and will match City to Bay funds raised up to $10,000.

Welcome to New Families who have joined the Centre since the Autumn Joining the early intervention service are:• Jasmine and her mum and dad Angela and Andrew• Phoebe and parents Adrian and Raffella• Gethin and mum and dad Emma and Chris• Jazmine and parents Laura and Jarrett• Lachlan and mum and dad Kelly and Adam• Lance and parents Jessica and Wayne• Lauren and parents Louise and William• Bella and Michelle and David

In school support welcome• Caden and parents Wesley and Deborah• Samuel and Angel and Adam• Geofrey and his mum Denise• Thomas and parents Paula and Richard • Danile and his mum and dad Paul and Helen.• Jeremiah and parents Ries and Ben

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WHISPA news:Whispa is currently looking for a new coordinator so stay tuned for more news!

Beautiful Jaiden with his new sister Sophie