Sound Scouts
Digital hearing-health platform providing validated, game-based hearing screening for children (age 4+) and adults, clinician-grade auditory processing assessment, at-home auditory training, and a cloud management system for large-scale program deployment. Products and tools are clinically validated through multi-year R&D with national hearing research partners and are used for screening, diagnosis, training, and program management.
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Nr. of Employees
small (1-50)
Sound Scouts
Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Wollstonecraft, Greenwich, Crows Nest, Crows Nest Dc, Gore Hill, Naremburn, New South Wales, Australia
Products
Hearing screening mobile application
Interactive game-based hearing screener for ages ~4 to adult, available on iOS, Android and Windows, providing immediate screening results (pass/borderline/refer).
Cloud management and reporting platform
Centralised platform to enrol users, manage player/client records, store test results, and generate organisation-level reports for program coordinators.
Clinician auditory processing diagnostic battery
A clinician-focused battery of APD tests with normative data to assist diagnosis of auditory processing disorders and to differentiate underlying causes of listening difficulties.
At-home auditory training program (beta)
Consumer-facing auditory training designed to improve spatial processing, delivered for at-home use and based on established spatialized listening training methods.
Hearing screening mobile application
Interactive game-based hearing screener for ages ~4 to adult, available on iOS, Android and Windows, providing immediate screening results (pass/borderline/refer).
Cloud management and reporting platform
Centralised platform to enrol users, manage player/client records, store test results, and generate organisation-level reports for program coordinators.
Clinician auditory processing diagnostic battery
A clinician-focused battery of APD tests with normative data to assist diagnosis of auditory processing disorders and to differentiate underlying causes of listening difficulties.
At-home auditory training program (beta)
Consumer-facing auditory training designed to improve spatial processing, delivered for at-home use and based on established spatialized listening training methods.
Services
Coordination and technical support for school- and health service–based screening programs, including enrolment, result distribution, and program reporting.
Coordination and technical support for school- and health service–based screening programs, including enrolment, result distribution, and program reporting.
Expertise Areas
- Hearing screening for children and adults
- Auditory processing assessment (APD)
- Digital health and mobile app screening
- Cloud-based program management and reporting
Key Technologies
- Mobile and tablet-based screening applications
- Cloud-hosted management and analytics platform
- Automated audiometry
- Spatialized noise / speech-in-noise testing
News & Updates
A government grant funded a national rollout of the hearing screening program, enabling free online hearing tests at scale and administration via the cloud management platform.
Awarded a 2017 Data Innovation Award recognising the use of data analytics and technology to deliver screening outcomes and algorithmic interpretation of gameplay data.
Won the Health and Wearable Technology Award at the 2017 SXSW Accelerator competition for its hearing screening technology.
Named a finalist in the Impact Pediatric Health Startup Pitch Competition at SXSW 2019 in the Digital Health category.
A government grant funded a national rollout of the hearing screening program, enabling free online hearing tests at scale and administration via the cloud management platform.
Awarded a 2017 Data Innovation Award recognising the use of data analytics and technology to deliver screening outcomes and algorithmic interpretation of gameplay data.
Won the Health and Wearable Technology Award at the 2017 SXSW Accelerator competition for its hearing screening technology.
Named a finalist in the Impact Pediatric Health Startup Pitch Competition at SXSW 2019 in the Digital Health category.