Government & Public Health

A cost-effective, evidence-based hearing screening platform for public health

Sound Scouts has been independently validated in peer-reviewed research, supported by NSW Government Health, the Federal Government, and deployed in school programs across Australia. Its cost-effectiveness has been assessed in a published health economic model.

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The platform

What Sound Scouts delivers

Hearing Screener

Sound Scouts App

A clinically validated hearing screener for children aged 4 and over and adults. Administered on any touch screen device by a responsible adult. Includes both an Automatic Audiometer and the Triple Factor Hearing Screener with speech in noise assessment.

APD Diagnostic Battery

APD Suite

Multiple clinician-administered tests for auditory processing disorder. Developed by Dr Sharon Cameron & Professor Harvey Dillon in association with Macquarie University. Normative data for ages 5+ years.

Auditory Training · Beta

Soundiverse

At home or in-clinic auditory training for spatial processing disorder and for those with a deficit in identifying individual speech sounds in noise.

The evidence base

Independently validated across multiple peer-reviewed publications

Metric	Finding	Source
Speech-in-noise recognition as a predictor of academic achievement	A significant interaction between speech-in-noise ability and reading was seen in the combined cohort	PLOS One, 2025
Children screened in published studies	1,255+ in a single programme evaluation	International Journal of Audiology, 2022
First Nations communities research	Peer-reviewed comparison study. 88% agreement with manual audiometry	International Journal of Audiology, 2020
Cost per QALY	A$4,472 (well within standard acceptability thresholds)	Value in Health, 2018
Probability cost-effective	95% at A$60,000 per QALY threshold	Value in Health, 2018
Sensitivity (children with known hearing loss)	85%	International Journal of Audiology, 2018
Specificity (children with normal hearing)	98%	International Journal of Audiology, 2018

Discuss a public health programme

Contact our team to request an evidence dossier or begin a programme consultation.

How to work with us

Government licensing and programme design

Government licensing, population-scale deployment, and research partnerships are arranged directly with the Sound Scouts team. We can provide a full evidence dossier, programme design consultation, and custom implementation planning.