Captions At National Gallery of Australia

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Available now: Captions at the National Gallery of Australia

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Experience options for Deaf and hearing impaired visitors, with captions at the art exhibition Turner from the Tate: The Making of a Masterat the National Gallery of Australia.

OpenMi Tours is a free smartphone app which provides access options to cultural venues. The free app offers options for this exhibition so you can have an equal opportunity to the rich information of the audio tour.

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CICADA NT Meeting On Mothers Day 2013

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CICADA Meeting May On Mothers Day 2013 (12 May 2013), a small group of Darwin CICADA Support Group met Professor Gibson and Halit Sanli, the biomedical engineer (both from the SCIC) who tests the implants in surgery, at the Darwin Trailer Boat Club for Dinner. It was an enjoyable evening as we learned about how they are going to give 3 people a cochlear implant in Darwin. (One of which is a 6 y.o. child and the other two people are adults).

Events Coming Up May/June

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Here are some of the latest events coming up:

  • Western Sydney CICADA BBQ on Sunday 19th May 2013
  • Cicada WA Group Meeting on 16th May 2013
  • Cicada Morning Tea on 6th June 2013
  • Cicada ACT Morning Tea on 13th June 2013
  • Cicada WA group meeting on 20th June 2013
  • Cicada Illawarra Picnic in the Park on 23rd June 2013 

The Long Winding Road of the Cochlear Implant

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This is a transcript of a talk given by Professor Bill Gibson at the Cicada Australia AGM in 2012

CICADA is doing a fantastic job. The magazines are unbelievably good these days. I congratulate the old and new committees for the work that they're doing. I'm honoured to be asked to give this talk today, and it's just a little bit of history and maybe a peek into the future of the cochlear implant and how I became involved.

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First ever CI surgery in Darwin, NT

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"TUESDAY 14th May 2013 Some exciting and history making news....Prof Bill Gibson from the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre NSW, in conjunction with Darwin local ENT surgeons, Dr Hemi Patel and Dr Graeme Crossland, today performed the Northern Territory's first ever cochlear implant surgeries at the Royal Darwin Hospital. The recipients will have to wait for wounds to heal before they are 'switched on' in 3 week's time. Territorians will no longer have to travel interstate for implant surgery nor stay several weeks for switch-on and rehabilitation"

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