A surgical technique used with the Contour Advance™ electrode, is designed to facilitate smooth movement through the cochlea, minimising lateral wall forces, and thereby protecting the delicate cochlear structures.

Annual General Meeting.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Australian Securities Exchange.

Hearing with both ears.

Behind-the-ear speech processor.

Pairs of electrodes that stimulate the cochlea. A multi-channel implant that has multiple pairs of electrodes that give implant recipients more options for choosing the most responsive hearing nerve fibres, providing richer pitch information and improving hearing in noisy environments.

Direct acoustic cochlear stimulator.

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Financial Year 2006: 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006.

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Financial Year 2009: 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.

United States Food and Drug Administration.

International Financial Reporting Standards.

The term used to describe an individual’s “listening program”. It is stored in the memory of the speech processor and tells the implant how to activate electrodes in the array depending on the incoming signal.

Previous Australian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

The externally worn part of the cochlear implant.

Research and development.

Set of sound processing algorithms which enhance hearing performance.

Total shareholder return.