Parents fear deaf children could miss out under privatisation of Australian Hearing

By Stephanie Gardiner
Updated August 27 2014 - 6:08pm, first published 1:41am
Lucy Ryan, who had a cochlear implant a year ago, with her sisters, Hannah, 4, and Bella, 11, and mother Natalie. Photo: Janie Barrett
Lucy Ryan, who had a cochlear implant a year ago, with her sisters, Hannah, 4, and Bella, 11, and mother Natalie. Photo: Janie Barrett
Cochlear miracle: Lucy Ryan with her sisters and mother. Photo: Janie Barrett
Cochlear miracle: Lucy Ryan with her sisters and mother. Photo: Janie Barrett

Natalie Ryan remembers the first time her daughter Lucy heard a kookaburra cackling at dusk.

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