Welcome.

We help you connect with loved ones through better hearing.

We provide

Audiology Care
For You & Your Loved Ones.

Servicing Greater Melbourne. Based in Heidelberg.

“Your family and friends mean a lot to you. Great communication is key to succesful relationships, and being able to hear clearly certainly helps!”

Dr Gerard William Accredited Audiologist & Hearing Impaired

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Sounds like you?

Our Services

Choose your best path towards hearing health.

Hearing Assessment

Our comprehensive hearing assessment in our spacious sound-treated room will help you understand your ears and how to optimise your hearing.

Children's Ears & Hearing

We assess your child’s ear and hearing status using fun & age-appropriate techniques, and work with you to determine the best course of action for them.

Hearing Solutions,
Hearing Aid Trials &
Second Opinions

Our personalised Hear With Me approach is designed to ensure that you are set-up for success. Let us help you unlock your true potential for connection.

Ear Wax Removal

Let’s sort those blocked ears for you quickly. We offer safe and effective ear wax (cerumen) removal using microsuction or curettes.

Choose Us For

Audiology Care that is...

Comprehensive

We want to ensure you receive optimal care.

Personalised

Because you are unique.

Warm

Because our relationships matter.

Honest

Because integrity matters.

We work closely with local ENT Specialists to ensure that your hearing health is optimal.

Including

About Us

Hear With Me

Hear With Me was inspired by the lived experience of hearing impaired and founder audiologist Dr Gerard William, PhD.

We exist to provide hearing care that puts your needs front and centre to help you reconnect with those you love.

Based in Melbourne, we work closely alongside local Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) specialists in Heidelberg to ensure that your hearing health is well-supported and optimal.

We recognise that hearing is only one part of our overall health and wellbeing therefore we incorporate both evidence-based and holistic views of care.

Hearing typically takes longer to successfully rehabilitate compared to eyesight, and effective partnerships between you, your family and us are needed to get good long-term results!

We’re in this for the long haul, so choose us to accompany you and your loved ones on the hearing journey.

I look forward to welcoming you to Hear With Me. Allow us to help you & your loved ones!

Main Qualifications

Key Memberships

Select Awards

HEARing CRC Scholarship

To complete a PhD at the University of Melbourne

Herbert J. Oyer Award

Jointly-awarded by Academy of Rehabilitative Audiologists (USA) in 2018

My Story

Dr Gerard William

Although I was born with hearing impairment, my hearing loss was not picked up by my mother until I was 3 years old… when I didn’t respond to mealtime invitations from another room! Off we went to our local audiologists and doctors. Our health professionals made the decision to monitor my hearing annually. Times were different and they didn’t give us a lot of information, and since I seemed to be doing fine at school over the coming years, I wasn’t required to wear hearing aids as a child.

It wouldn’t be until I was 15 years old before I would get my first pair of hearing aids. A classmate of mine was annoyed by me asking him to repeat our teachers’ instructions, and he asked me to see his mother (an audiologist) who could let me try “tiny and invisible” hearing aids. My life was about to be changed forever.

I vividly remember the experience of being fitted with hearing aids, and having the world opened up to me – along with all the various joys and challenges of newfound hearing! For example, I hadn’t realised that people could genuinely understand song lyrics without first reading them, and that cars and clothes made soft noises that others could hear. There was a lot to learn along the way – and answers were not easily found or explained! My family certainly wished that we had understood how much I had missed out on much earlier and received better information and the opportunity to be fitted with hearing aids from a younger age.

It is through this experience of audiology that I have been inspired to find a better way forward for hearing impaired people and their family members.

Fast forward several years and I have dedicated my life to helping other people with hearing impairment hear better through an experience of care that is warm, personalised, honest and comprehensive.

Through HEAR WITH ME, I hope to be able to provide you with an audiology experience I wish my family had.

I look forward to welcoming you to Hear With Me.

Allow Us to Help You & Your Loved Ones!

Gerard

Professional Experience

Dr Gerard William was trained in New Zealand where he completed his Master of Audiology (with Distinction). He has worked in diverse areas of audiology including hearing, tinnitus and vestibular diagnostic and rehabilitation across NSW, ACT and VIC. He continues to develop his audiology knowledge and enjoys trying different hearing aid brands and models of hearing aids for comparison in his spare time. He previously lectured and taught clinically to Masters of Clinical Audiology students at the University of Melbourne where he also completed his PhD in Audiology on scholarship from the HEARing CRC. His PhD research into person-centred hearing care explored how audiology clinics can better focus on the needs of hearing impaired individuals and their families to achieve better results.

He has enjoyed being involved in teaching over 200 students and has presented at various national and international conferences, and was co-awarded the Herbert J. Oyer student research prize at the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiologists Institute (USA) in 2018. He has been published in the Hearing Journal. He is a member of several audiology professional bodies and has served in Australia and New Zealand, and is registered to practice as an audiologist in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Professional Memberships

Accredited Audiologist of Audiology Australia

Registered Clinical Scientist with the UK's HCPC

We exist to provide hearing care tailored to the needs of people with hearing impairment and their loved ones.
We believe that hearing is only one part of our overall health and wellbeing, so we incorporate both an evidence-based and holistic view of care.
Our care is warm, personalised, comprehensive and honest.
Hear With Me Mission Statement

Only 24% of hearing impaired Australians over 60 years old use their hearing aids.

We can do a whole lot better.

With the latest research combined with our experience, our dedicated HEAR WITH ME rehabilitation plan will help you get the most out of your hearing devices.

This means that our hearing aids do not stay in drawers.

Your hearing aids will be set-up so that you are happy with the sound, feel and look, so you can connect with others and enjoy the relationships you value most.

Choose us to journey with you today.

¹Chia et al.. (2007). Hearing impairment and health-related quality of life: The blue mountains hearing study. Ear Hear, 28(2), 187–195.

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Welcome.

Audiology Care
For You & Your Loved Ones.

Servicing Greater Melbourne. Based in Heidelberg.

Hearing Assessment

Hearing Rehabilitation

Ear Wax Removal