Resources
Thank you for your interest in the award-winning Deadly Ears Program, which leads Queensland Health’s response to reducing the rates and impact of middle ear disease and conductive hearing loss for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children across Queensland.
Please find below some web links to valuable ear health resources for families and communities, teachers and educators and health professionals. Simply click on each link to expand it for more information.
We hope you find the resources highly useful in the fight against middle ear disease.
Australian Health Promotion Association - website
Australian Hearing - website
Care For Kids Ears - website

‘Children … come and talk’ – A communication assessment for Aboriginal children and students (2000)
Deadly Ears Help Bubba Yarn, Learn and Play - video

Deadly Ears bookmark - PDF
Deadly Ways to Learn (2000) - website

Deadly Kids Can Listen and Learn - website
'Do you hear what I hear' Living and learning with Conductive Hearing Loss - website
Early Years Portal - website
The Department of Education has launched an Early Years Health and Development portal to support the learning and development of staff educating and caring for children aged 0-8. The portal is your one-stop access to information, tools and training on a range of early years health and development topics such as:
- best practice health and hygiene
- fostering social and emotional wellbeing
- immunisation
- ear health
These, and the many more topics available on the portal, help you contribute to a child’s wellbeing, learning and development in the early years and give them a great start in life.
Keep your professional knowledge up-to-date by visiting the portal frequently. The department will regularly update the portal with new content from a broad range of quality health and early childhood sources.
The portal has been developed by the Department of Education in partnership with Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service.
Funding Guidelines for Ear and Hearing Health Screening Programmes - PDF

HealthInfoNet - website

Healthy ears and strong hearing in early childhood - PDF
HEARnet Learning - conductive hearing loss, behaviour and learning course
Effective communications with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - PDF

Families as First Teachers - website

Improving the Classroom Learning Environment - videos
Improving the Classroom Learning Environment - resources
Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) - website
Look after kids ears - website
Middle ear disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children - PDF
Middle Ear Disease fact sheet - PDF
Occupational Therapy for Children - PDF

Playgroup resources
Introduction
This package is a joint collaboration of the Inala ‘Lil Jarjums Playgroup (Inala); Families as First Teachers; Playgroup Queensland www.playgroupqld.com.au and the Deadly Ears Program.
It has been developed through consultation with families, playgroup facilitators and playgroup co-ordinators.
This resource package has been compiled to support playgroup facilitators to build ear and hearing health messages into their routines. Suggestions on how to use this resource package can be found here.
Resource package intro
Training
This resource provides training for playgroup facilitators for ear and hearing health. It can be used as a refresher or as a resource for training others.
Facilitator training
Overview staff introduction
Ears, hearing and development
Middle Ear Disease impacts
Yarning with families
Resources to support playgroup facilitators to have discussions with families and parents regarding ear and hearing health concerns.
Yarning overview
Yarning – Middle Ear Disease
Yarning – Middle Ear Disease symptoms
Yarning – Middle Ear Disease impacts
Yarning – Middle Ear Disease prevention
Yarning – Building talking and listening skills
Activities for families
Activities for young children which support playgroup facilitators to have discussions with families and parents regarding ear and hearing health concerns.
Activities overview
Big ears little ears
Healthy ears and face
Making a phone
Making necklaces
Mix an match sound shakers
Munching monsters
Soap bunnies
Links
This resource is a compilation of suggested resources and websites to support playgroup facilitators links to external service providers.
Building links with health services
Podcasts - website

Primary Health Networks in Queensland - website
Protocol for the Sharing of Population-Level QChild Data on the Ear Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
Screening Guidelines for Principals - document
Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) - website
Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) - website
Speech Pathology for Children - PDF
Support strategies for children with fluctuating conductive hearing loss - PDF
Speech Pathology Paediatric Indigenous Network (SPPIN) - website
The Kawa Model - website

Understanding Deadly Ears audiology results - PDF
Understanding Ear and Hearing Screening - PDF

Understanding the ENT outreach daycare summary sheet - PDF
Who has ear troubles - PDF
You’re in new Country - book

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