Loud Shirt Day is a community event that raises vital funds to support children with hearing loss.
1. Register to get LOUD
Register to take part in Loud Shirt Day this October and we'll help you with everything you need to make things easy!
2. Choose a date to get LOUD
The official date is Friday 18 October 2024, but you can register to get LOUD any time that suits you throughout October.
Once you have selected a date to get LOUD, start planning your event and send out invites. To help you make your event a huge success you will find heaps of LOUD resources here.
3. Make it personal
1 in 1,000 babies in Australia are born with significant hearing loss and this doubles by the time children reach school age, and this could be what has sparked you to take part in Loud Shirt Day.
Whatever your spark is, it is personal to you, so why not add that personal touch to your Loud Shirt Day event.
Host it your way
The choice is yours, you can choose how to get LOUD this October. You can get LOUD at home with friends and family, at your office with your work colleagues, at school with all your school friends, or why not get your town behind you and turn the whole town LOUD!
It is FREE to register and we are with you every step of the way to make your event a huge success.
How your efforts will assist
1 in 6
Australians impacted by hearing loss – a figure set to rise to one in four by 2060.
1 in 1,000
Babies in Australia born with a permanent hearing loss.
3 in 1,000
Secondary school students who require assistance because of hearing loss.
ABOUT US
Hear and Say
Hear and Say is Queensland’s specialised provider of audiology and speech pathology for all people with hearing loss. We operate state-wide and support people of all ages - from newborn babies, to toddlers, school age children and adults.
From humble beginnings supporting just six children whose specialist speech therapy was delivered by Dr Dimity Dornan within a spare room in a Brisbane physiotherapy clinic to now working with over 900 children, Hear and Say has worked with babies born deaf or hard of hearing for over three decades.
