Systemic advocacy

Aussie Deaf Kids collaborates with other parent groups to advocate for the rights of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families to receive the services and support they need.

• COVID-19 and the transition of Paediatric Hearing Services to the NDIS (March 2020)
  Joint letter to the Minister for Families and Social Services and the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme
   
• Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme on the Provision of Hearing Services under the NDIS ( January 2017)
  Joint submission - Aussie Deaf Kids and Parents of Deaf Children
   
• Submission to the Inquiry into Hearing Health and Wellbeing (2016)
  Joint submission - Aussie Deaf Kids and Parents of Deaf Children
   
• Request for an Independent Study of Risks and Safeguards for the Future Delivery of Hearing Services through the NDIS
  Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (March 2016)
  Joint submission - Aussie Deaf Kids and Parents of Deaf Children
   
• Transition of the Hearing Services Program to the National Disability Insurance Scheme: A report on the perspectives of parents of children with hearing loss (October 2015)
   
• Submission regarding the Service Delivery Framework for the Hearing Services Program - Voucher Scheme for the Office of Hearing Services undertaken by Australian Healthcare Associates (2015)
   
• Transition of Australian Government Hearing Services Community Services Obligation Program to the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Issues Paper (2015)
  Deafness Forum of Australia
   
• Questions on the future of hearing services for deaf and hard of hearing children (2015)
  Joint submission from Parents of Deaf Children and Aussie Deaf Kids
   
• Parent perspectives on the potential sale of Australian Hearing (2014)
  Joint submission from Aussie Deaf Kids, Parents of Deaf Children and Canberra Deaf Children's Association
   
• Children with Hearing Loss, Their Families and the National Disability Insurance Scheme - 
  A Discussion Paper. Parents of Deaf Children, Parents of Hearing Impaired of South Australia and Aussie Deaf Kids (September 2012)
   
• Review of Disability Standards for Education 2005
  Parent Council for Deaf Education and Aussie Deaf Kids (2011)
   
• Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Hearing Health in Australia
  ANZPOD (October 2009)

• Submission to the Australian Senate Inquiry into Hearing Health in Australia
  Aussie Deaf Kids (October 2009)
   
• Quality Standards for Newborn Hearing Screening Services - Supporting Families
  ANZPOD (July 2009)
   
• Parent Perspectives and Newborn Hearing Screening
  ANZPOD (2009)