The Bionics Institute is thrilled to announce that The Cass Foundation has awarded $60,000 in funding to support Dr. Demi Gao’s research into improving cochlear implant programming for infants.
Dr Gao’s research seeks to enhance cochlear implant management for infants to ensure their implants are set up correctly at the earliest stages of life.
Her research uses an innovative hearing test developed by Bionics Institute researchers that uses a non-invasive imaging technology to measure the brain responses to sound while infants are asleep.
Funding from The Cass Foundation will help establish a method to determine hearing thresholds and comfort levels in normal hearing infants to enable development of a technique that predicts the minimum and maximum electric stimulation levels to determine the best settings and establish a new standard for compassionate and precise paediatric care for babies with cochlear implants.
Thank you to The Cass Foundation for their support towards developing a clinically viable tool that aims to improve cochlear implant management, leading to better speech and language outcomes and a significantly improved quality of life for babies with cochlear implants. Dr Demi Gao, project lead
