Teresa CHING Australia
Professor Teresa Ching is Professorial Fellow at NextSense Institute and conjointly Professor of Education and Disability Studies at Macquarie University. Teresa’s research is dedicated to improving the lives and outcomes of children with hearing loss. Teresa is particularly interested in seeing the results of research used by policy makers and service providers and manufacturers in hearing rehabilitation to reduce the impact of hearing loss on language, literacy, educational attainment, mental health, and quality of life.
Her research focuses on investigating the effectiveness of early detection and intervention for populations of children with bilateral hearing loss or unilateral hearing loss, identifying factors affecting longitudinal outcomes to target intervention; devising and validating novel objective EEG and subjective behavioural methods for assessing sound discrimination ability in children and adults with hearing loss or auditory neuropathy; developing and evaluating methods for prescribing hearing aids and electric-acoustic stimulation (combining cochlear implants with hearing aids) for children and adults; and exploring perspectives of professionals and families on management of hearing loss in young children to inform family-centred practice in intervention. Most recently, she has developed and validated clinical tools for early detection of hearing and language problems in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia.