Paul Peryman is the Senior Paediatric Audiologist at the van Asch Deaf Education Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is educated in New Zealand and England, with two degrees in Psychology and a Post-Grad Diploma in Audiology from the University of Melbourne. Paul has clinical, educational, and mentoring roles within Central and Southern New Zealand, and advisory roles within the Ministries of Health and Education. Paul's present clinical interest lies in the counselling support of parents of newly diagnosed and very young hearing impaired children.