SPECTRAL TILT: DO INFANTS KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR THEM?

该项目属于国家研究重点，让孩子们有一个健康的生活开始。这项研究具有重要的经济意义，因为它将为基于经验研究的助听器频率响应的知情设计奠定基础，并使婴儿有机会为婴儿配备放大的助听器，而不是像目前不令人满意的做法那样为成年人配备助听器。此外，合作者为这笔赠款带来的方法和知识的交叉融合将有助于保持对澳大利亚作为听力障碍、助听器开发和使用的尖端研究地点的关注。

This project falls within the National Research Priorities, giving children 'a healthy start to life'. The research is important economically because it will lay the groundwork for the informed design of hearing aid frequency responses based on empirical research, and give infants the opportunity to be fitted with hearing aids amplified for infants, not adults as is the current unsatisfactory practice. Moreover, the cross fertilisation of methods and knowledge that the collaborators bring to this grant should provide outcomes that will help maintain attention on Australia as a site of cutting edge research into hearing impairment, hearing aid development and use.