Today, The Hearing House team came together to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – sharing language, waiata, food and time with one another. We began with a karakia before two of our kiritaki/clients, Chevelle Aupouri and Kathy Thomas, led us in waiata, teaching us the words and guiding us through Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi. 🎶 There was plenty of singing, laughter and encouragement as we gave it a go. It was particularly special to have Chevelle and Kathy share their knowledge with u

This Speech Language Therapy Awareness Week (14–20 September), we’re celebrating the Speech Language Therapists (SLTs) at The Hearing House and the important role they play in supporting kiritaki/clients and whānau to communicate, connect and participate with confidence. At The Hearing House, our SLTs have a particular focus on supporting communication for people with cochlear implants. They work alongside kiritaki/clients, whānau and the wider clinical team to understand ind

For Master of Audiology student Ivy Yang, the opportunity to combine science, technology and clinical care has led her to The Hearing House, where she is undertaking research that could help audiologists better understand how children and adults with cochlear implants access speech sounds. Ivy is in the second year of her Master of Audiology programme at the University of Auckland and is working with The Hearing House paediatric team to establish local normative data for the

Less than a year after representing The Hearing House at the Power of Speech event in Canberra, 14-year-old Nate Liefting is proving that confidence, determination and the right support can open doors in every aspect of life. Now in Year 9 at Pukekohe High School, Nate has made a strong start to secondary school life. His transition has been marked not only by academic success, but by growing independence and self-confidence—qualities that have flourished since receiving his

Huge kudos to Hendrix Knox, one of our teenage kiritaki/clients, who is the bass guitarist in Abstract Fish Lungs, a high-energy nu-metalcore band from Raglan. Born profoundly deaf, Hendrix received bilateral cochlear implants at just eight months old, and today Hendrix is tearing it up on stage with his mates.​ Abstract Fish Lungs formed in 2022 and have been crafting their heavy headbanging riffs and must-see high impact live shows ever since.​ The band's website (link belo

Q: Can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you into audiology? Nick: I was born profoundly deaf and received my cochlear implant when I was three and a half, in 1995. I was one of the first children in New Zealand to receive a cochlear implant. I actually started out studying architecture, but after a few years I realised it wasn’t where I wanted my career to go. Having grown up with a cochlear implant and spent so much of my life around audiology and hearing

September is World Alzheimer’s Month, an opportunity to raise awareness, challenge stigma and better understand the experiences of people living with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, as well as the whānau and friends who support them. At The Hearing House, we know how important communication and connection are at every stage of life. For people living with dementia and their loved ones, maintaining those connections can become increasingly important as communication,

We’re excited to announce that nine-year-old Emerson Hand will represent The Hearing House at Power of Speech at the Australian Parliament in Canberra on Tuesday 13 October, before taking on another special role as our Loud Shirt Day Ambassador on Friday 16 October. Link to watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gka9EIWLefk The event runs from 9-11am NZT on Tuesday. Emerson will take the stage at Power of Speech, sharing his story and representing The Hearing House at

This week, we welcomed members of the Simpson Grierson team to The Hearing House for a dedicated privacy training session. As a healthcare provider, The Hearing House is entrusted with sensitive personal and health information every day. Protecting that information is not only an important legal responsibility; it is fundamental to the trust our kiritaki/clients and whānau place in us. We were joined by Priya Prakash, a solicitor in Simpson Grierson’s Privacy, Technology and