Five-year-old Alice was born with profound hearing loss. Now she 'loves anything to do with sound'

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The Brisbane prep student was diagnosed with hearing loss in both ears as a baby and received cochlear implants a month after her first birthday.

Five-year-old Alice Salisbury loves ballet and singing, but talking is her favourite thing — all only possible through what she describes as her "superpower".Children's Health Queensland has been running a newborn hearing screening program for 18 yearsRoughly two in every 1,000 newborns have a hearing impairment

After more than four years of intensive speech therapy and regular audiology appointments, Alice's mum Angelique describes her as a "sassy little thing who loves life and the joy of hearing". Alice has been brought up not to consider her cochlear implants as a sign of disability, but as a superpower. In that time, the Children's Health Queensland program has identified more than 2,600 children as having a hearing loss.Healthy Hearing program director Rachael Beswick said that by diagnosing hearing loss in the first few months of life, it allowed early intervention so that children are able to develop speech and language "commensurate with their peers".

 

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