Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Oticon Foundation for InfoPages here.
Oticon Foundation - Latest News [Page 1]
Hearing loss impacts healthy aging
Friday, 3 July 2015, 11:46 am | Oticon Foundation
Leading research points to hearing loss as a major factor in elderly people’s declining physical and intellectual capabilities, says Karen Pullar, Secretary of the Oticon Foundation. More >>
Oticon Foundation grants to assist hearing impaired
Wednesday, 4 March 2015, 5:01 pm | Oticon Foundation
Grant applications are now being sought for projects and activities to improve the lives of hearing impaired New Zealanders. In 2014, the Oticon Foundation donated close to $260,000 to support human rights advocacy, research, hearing care professional ... More >>
Oticon Foundation in New Zealand
Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 4:22 pm | Oticon Foundation
Oticon Foundation in New Zealand, Wednesday 26 November 2014 Early detection and intervention of hearing impairment is key to a baby’s language and social development More >>
Audiology and jazz: Educating and entertaining audiologists
Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 10:45 am | Oticon Foundation
Internationally acclaimed audiologist Chuck Berlin is in Wellington this week as keynote speaker at the NZ Audiological Society conference being held at Te Papa from 2–5 July. Sponsored by the Oticon Foundation in New Zealand, Professor Berlin will ... More >>
Funding available to improve the lives of hearing impaired
Monday, 24 March 2014, 4:42 pm | Oticon Foundation
Time is fast running out to apply for funding from the Oticon Foundation in New Zealand. Anyone with an interest or project to further the understanding of hearing and hearing loss, or improve the lives of hearing impaired people, is eligible to apply. In 2013 ... More >>
Immediate Benefit for Thousands of NZers with MFi App
Friday, 14 March 2014, 1:30 pm | Oticon Foundation
Oticon New Zealand today announced that the company has joined Apple’s Made for iPhone (MFi) programme and will introduce its first MFi connectivity solution for hearing instruments in Queenstown in April. More >>
Grants Support Human Rights And Hearing Impaired
Thursday, 26 September 2013, 4:36 pm | Oticon Foundation
Sign Language teachers and interpreters, hearing-impaired children, cognitively impaired athletes and people dealing with hearing impaired customers will all benefit from financial help for projects to improve the lives of the hearing impaired. More >>
Research on Secondary School Teachers’ Sensitivity to Noise
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 3:07 pm | Oticon Foundation
A University of Auckland Audiology Masters student has been recognised for new research into secondary school teachers’ sensitivity to noise. The research reveals secondary school teachers experience stress, anxiety and fatigue when working in noise and ... More >>
Grants to Help Improve Lives of Hearing Impaired
Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 11:41 am | Oticon Foundation
Children with speech problems, students and teachers in intermediate schools and people dealing with customers are the latest to get benefit from financial help for projects to improve the lives of the hearing impaired. More >>
New Technology Delivers For Those With Hearing Loss
Friday, 1 February 2013, 11:16 am | Oticon Foundation
Friday 1st February 2013 New Technology Delivers For The Unique Needs Of Those With Hearing Loss The thousands of New Zealanders with hearing loss and their hearing care professionals have the chance to experience something completely different this ... More >>
Funding awarded for hearing related projects
Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 2:32 pm | Oticon Foundation
Tens of thousands of dollars have been awarded to projects as diverse as research at the University of Auckland to an education programme for young people in the Wairarapa, as part of the Oticon Foundation’s grants in the past year for projects to help ... More >>
Low Numbers Seeking Help for Hearing Loss Prompt Action
Monday, 29 August 2011, 2:35 pm | Oticon Foundation
New research revealing just two out of ten people with hearing loss get help from a hearing care professional is being presented to Wellington and Manawatu audiologists as one of three new steps being taken to improve the figures. More >>
Hearing Association a Winner From 2011 Grants
Monday, 23 May 2011, 12:51 pm | Oticon Foundation
The Oticon Foundation in New Zealand has awarded funding to the Hearing Association for three different projects – including support for the Association’s National Conference in Wanganui over the weekend. More >>
New Research Backs Classroom Technology
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 11:05 am | Oticon Foundation
New research confirms that the country’s primary school principals have the opportunity to remove barriers to learning by adopting technology designed specifically for the classroom that makes it easier to hear and teach. More >>
31 March deadline for projects to help the hearing impaired
Monday, 28 March 2011, 1:23 pm | Oticon Foundation
Funding is now available for people or organisations with research, educational or other projects that help the lives of the hearing impaired. More >>
Leading Technology Deals Blow To Hearing Loss
Monday, 10 May 2010, 9:00 am | Oticon Foundation
Hearing loss as a disability has been dealt a major blow with the introduction of world leading technology in New Zealand that lets people with hearing impairment process sound the way the human auditory system naturally does. More >>
New Zealand’s Biggest Disability
Thursday, 4 March 2010, 11:00 am | Oticon Foundation
A call is going out for people needing funding for research and other projects to help with New Zealand’s number one disability – hearing impairment - to apply to the Oticon Foundation now. More >>
Grant for University to Investigate Hearing Loss
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 2:47 pm | Oticon Foundation
The Oticon Foundation in New Zealand has today awarded a research grant of almost $350,000 to the University of Canterbury to investigate the prevention of hearing loss during ear surgery. More >>
Hearing Association Gets Funding
Monday, 21 September 2009, 10:55 am | Oticon Foundation
Making it easier to find out about hearing loss and what can be done about it is the rationale behind a new resource developed by the Hearing Association and funded by the Oticon Foundation in New Zealand. The wraps have been taken off the “Hear ... More >>
Funding Flows To Projects Focussed On Hearing Loss
Monday, 21 September 2009, 10:52 am | Oticon Foundation
Projects to improve the lives of the hearing impaired have received a financial injection, thanks to funding from the Oticon Foundation in New Zealand. “This week is Deaf Awareness Week and the Oticon Foundation is putting the spotlight on hearing loss ... More >>
