The Shepherd Centre teaches deaf and hearing impaired children how to listen and speak so that they can reach their full potential in the hearing world. The Shepherd Centre is a not-for-profit providing specialised programs for children with hearing loss The Shepherd Centre is a worldleading charity helping children and young adults with hearing loss learn to listen and speak. We work closely with families to give them the knowledge, encouragement and support they need to ensure their child can achieve their full potential in the world through their listening, spoken language, literacy and social skills. A cost benefit analysis by the international consulting firm Deloitte calculated that we provide a benefit of over $500,000 for every deaf child we help. In 2022, The Shepherd Centre provided lifechanging service to over 800 children and young adults with hearing loss. The vast majority of our students develop the same speech, language, literacy and social skills as any other child; helping them to continue their journey within the mainstream school system regardless of the level of their hearing loss. Our services are available across Australia with 11 locations plus our online telehealth program, which enables children from remote and rural locations to achieve the same speech as their city counterparts. Online telehealth is also popular with families from all locations when attending a centre is inconvenient. To read the results we achieve and see stories of some of the children and young people who benefitted from our service, please visit: https://shepherdcentre.org.au/hearinglossourresults/ During the year, the charity Hear For You joined into The Shepherd Centre, bringing its wonderful life skills and mentoring programs supporting teenagers with hearing loss. To achieve these incredible results, we work with the whole family providing integrated services including specialised speech pathology for deaf children, audiology services (including an integrated cochlear implant bionic ear program), family counselling services and many group programs to prepare children and teenagers for the challenges of the mainstream world. The Shepherd Centre relies heavily on the continued support of generous donors to make our lifechanging work for children possible. We receive limited government funding, including from the National Disability Insurance Scheme, which sadly does not cover the full cost of delivering our fantastic outcomes for deaf children and their families. Our top priority is to ensure our worldclass early intervention services are accessible to all families and children who need it. We can only continue to achieve this through the generous support of our donors. If you would like to find out more about how you can make a lifechanging difference to a deaf child at The Shepherd Centre, please visit: https://shepherdcentre.org.au/supportus/.