30 Oct 2024

Skye McKennay

A recipe for success

Like most 20-year-olds, Skye McKennay is unsure about what she wants to do with her life. A qualified chef working at Urban Forrager, she can feel her feet beginning to itch and the call of the great wide world growing louder in her ears.

30 Oct 2024

Nena Mardania

Navigating the hearing loss journey

When local doctors in Kenya informed Neetal Mardania that her 18-month-old daughter’s hearing was “perfectly fine”, she simply couldn’t accept the diagnosis. Call it gut feel or mother’s intuition, but Neetal was convinced that Nena’s hearing was compromised.

30 Oct 2024

Max and Vicki Briffa

Paying it forward

Upon meeting Max Briffa for the first time, it is difficult to imagine that this confident, talkative young man started life with a serious speech and language delay. He’s friendly, engaging’s engaging,  and has that twinkle in his eyes that any ordinary 19-year-old just setting out on his summer holidays should have.

30 Oct 2024

James Martin

Honk! Here comes James Martin

When James Martin walks out onto the stage next month as the lead role in his high school musical Honk!, few audience members will even be aware of the parallels between the character he plays and the actor himself.

30 Oct 2024

Bridget Gilmour

A model student

Twenty-six-year-old Bridget Gilmour is another wonderful success story to emerge from Telethon Speech & Hearing’s (TSH) Outpost program, which supports children with hearing loss to attend mainstream schools