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Surfing the Spectrum offers 'life-changing' water therapy for autistic kids

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Surfing the Spectrum offers 'life-changing' water therapy for autistic kids

Seven-year-old Hendrix loves watching the waves break over his head when he dives into the ocean.

Being in the water makes him feel "calm and weightless", according to his dad Daniel White, who takes him to the beach up to three times a day.

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Hannah faced a 'deaf future', until an auditory brain stem implant changed her life

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Hannah faced a 'deaf future', until an auditory brain stem implant changed her life

At the age of 31, Hannah McPierzie faced a decision she never thought she'd ever have to make: leave a tumour in her brain and lose the ability to walk, or remove it and become completely deaf.

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How an early profound hearing loss diagnosis has changed the life of Queensland children like Alice

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How an early profound hearing loss diagnosis has changed the life of Queensland children like Alice

Five-year-old Alice Salisbury loves ballet and singing, but talking is her favourite thing — all only possible through what she describes as her "superpower".

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Blindness no barrier for Wollongong jeweller Keely Payne as she creates by touch

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Blindness no barrier for Wollongong jeweller Keely Payne as she creates by touch

When Wollongong jewellery maker Keely Payne sits down to work, she does everything from choosing colours to threading tiny beads onto wire by touch alone.

Tackle boxes filled with colour-coordinated beads contain braille on the side to tell her what she is holding.

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Sunshine Coast's blind donkey inspires kids' book, raising funds for Happily Heifer After Sanctuary

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Sunshine Coast's blind donkey inspires kids' book, raising funds for Happily Heifer After Sanctuary

As Mavis Armstrong sat on the front steps of her Tin Can Bay home, listening to the natter of the holidaying children, the girls started "chirping" about electric fences.

She was instantly curious.

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