Staff Member

Megan Gilliver

PhD; BSc(Psych); GradDipling
Megan Gilliver

 

Biographic Notes

With a background in Psychology and Linguistics, Megan divides her time between projects focusing on:

  • The language and literacy development of children with hearing loss. Megan leads The Hearing CRC’s Literacy Intervention study, developing and evaluating interventions to promote reading development for children with hearing loss.
  • Hearing health promotion (as part of the hearsmart org.au team). Since joining NAL in 2007, Megan has been involved in a range of large-scale projects including Soundcheck Australia (a nation-wide citizen science study conducted in collaboration with the ABC), and the development of Hear4tomorrow (a primary school curriculum-based hearing health promotion program).
Selected Publications

Gilliver, M., Cupples, L., Ching, T. Y. C., Leigh, G., & Gunnourie, M. (2016). Developing Sound Skills for Reading: Teaching Phonological Awareness to Preschoolers With Hearing Loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.

Gilliver, M., Beach, E. F., & Williams, W. (2015). Changing beliefs about leisure noise: Using health promotion models to investigate young people’s engagement with, and attitudes towards, hearing health. International Journal of Audiology, 54(4), 211–219.

Beach, E. F., Gilliver, M., & Williams, W. (2014). A snapshot of young adults’ noise exposure reveals evidence of “Binge Listening.” Applied Acoustics, 77, 71–75.

Gilliver, M., Williams, W., & Beach, E. F. (2014). Noise exposure in the balance: Managing occupational and leisure risks to hearing health. Journal of Health, Safety and Environment, 30(1).

Beach, E. F., Gilliver, M., & Williams, W. (2013). The NOISE (Non-Occupational Incidents, Situations and Events) Database: A new research tool. Annals of Leisure Research, 16(2), 149–159.

Gilliver, M., Ching, T. Y. C., & Sjahalam-King, J. (2013). When expectation meets experience: parents’ recollections of and experiences with a child diagnosed with hearing loss soon after birth. International Journal of Audiology, 52 Suppl 2(July), S10–16.

Gilliver, M., Carter, L., Macoun, D., Rosen, J., & Williams, W. (2012). Music to whose ears? The effect of social norms on young people’s risk perceptions of hearing damage resulting from their music listening behavior. Noise & Health, 14(57), 47–51.

Selected Presentations

Gilliver M, Cupples L, Ching T and Leigh G. PA proficiency in preschoolers with hearing loss: PA program

proves productive in promoting performance. Oral presentation, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, twenty-second annual meeting. Hawaii, 15-18 July, 2015

Gilliver M, Cupples L, Ching T, Leigh G and Day J. A tablet for play can improve PA … and Vocab: Training

pre-literacy skills in pre-school children with hearing impairment. 21st Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference, Santa Fe, USA, 16-19 July, 2014.

Dillon H, Williams W, Gilliver M, Beach E. Binge Listening: Is exposure to leisure noise causing hearing loss

in young Australians? Audiology Australia XIX National Conference, Sydney, 16-19 May 2010.

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