Malaysian Association of Speech-language and Hearing

Title: World Hearing Day Public Webinars

Primary site: WPR – Malaysia         Additional site(s):

Description:

A series of public webinars is aired every Wednesday at 3.30pm on the MASH Facebook page to educate the public about the importance of hearing care. The topics cover hearing loss and dementia, noise-induced hearing loss, hearing loss in children, and common myths about hearing loss and hearing technologies. These topics are shared by the local audiologists and speech-language therapists, using easy-to-understand language to create public awareness in the local community. The informative videos are made to be short, interesting and more appealing to the public.

 

Live event: No
Screening: No
Traditional media: No
Social media: Yes
Met with individual policymakers: No
Participation of policymakers: No
Participation of influencers: No

WHO educational or publicity material used: Yes


Announcement Poster – posted prior to the first webinar


Joint sharing by audiologist and speech-language therapist


Interview session with a cochlear implant recipient


Interactive presentation on noise-induced hearing loss