Queensland CI Recipient Wins Graeme Clark Scholarship
Queensland CI Recipient Wins Graeme Clark Scholarship
For Release: August 24, 2003
August 24 2003
Media Release
Queensland Cochlear Implant Recipient Wins Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship
A 19-year-old aspiring audiologist who was born with a significant hearing loss has been awarded a scholarship honouring the inventor of the multi-channel cochlear implant.
Bill Raymond, who is studying for a Bachelor of Psychological Science at the University of Queensland, is one of 50,000 people worldwide who have a Nucleus cochlear implant system.
The Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship, named in honour of the Australian inventor of the multi-channel cochlear implant, will assist Bill towards achieving his dream of undertaking post-graduate studies in audiology.
Cochlear, the international market leader in cochlear implant technology, made the announcement as part of Hearing Awareness Week 2003 (August 24 to 30).
Born with a significant hearing loss that deteriorated as he got older, Bill received a cochlear implant in 1997 when he was 13.
In 2001, he was captain of Pittsworth State High School and he graduated in the top 17% of the State in his final year high school studies.
He now spends time as a volunteer at Brisbane’s Hear and Say Centre, where he helps other children with hearing impairments to listen, learn and talk.
“I am absolutely thrilled and honoured to receive the scholarship, as it will help enable me to further my dream of becoming an audiologist and using my life experiences to benefit other hearing impaired people,” Bill said.
The Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship was established last year to assist people with cochlear implants to undertake tertiary studies.
Cochlear implants are designed to help people who have severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss, or nerve deafness.
A cochlear implant is a technical medical device that electronically stimulates the hearing nerve of the cochlea (inner ear).
It is designed to allow people with severe to profound hearing loss to perceive sound.
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