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     Better Hearing Australia is a non-profit, self-help organisation controlled by its members and provides an Australia-wide community support service of rehabilitation and help for anyone with hearing loss.

 The organisation traces its beginnings to 1932, in Victoria, and now Better Hearing Australia has 18 Branches (located in the principal cities, with over 100 venues in city, suburban and country areas). Each Branch is incorporated, and controlled by an elected Committee of Management. Better Hearing Australia has a National Council as its controlling body, comprising a Board of Directors of National Council, and accredited national councillors appointed by each Branch.

The objectives of Better Hearing Australia are - 

·  To encourage the preservation of hearing of all people.

·  To encourage the use of preventative measures to lower the increasing incidence of deafness and hearing impairment in the Australian community.

·  To improve the communication of hearing impaired people, their families and friends.  

· co-operates with relevant authorities in research and action directed towards the preservation of  hearing and the prevention and alleviation of deafness;

·  encourages all people to have regular hearing tests;

·  serves as an Information Centre on all problems of hearing loss;

·  establishes programs for the rehabilitation of hearing impaired people;

·  obtains and disseminates information and advice on hearing loss, hearing aids and assistive listening, and other, devices and systems.

·  encourages improved access to educational opportunities for hearing impaired people;

·  encourages hearing impaired people to participate in social interaction;

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