Maddison used a Youth Grant to complete a week of work experience at the Cochlear Implant Clinic and Cochlear Care Centre in East Melbourne, observing speech pathology and audiology sessions alongside pre- and post-surgery cochlear implant patients.

Born with a profound hearing loss in one ear and total hearing loss in the other, Maddison received her first cochlear implant at 15 months old and her second at age three as part of a bilateral hearing research program. Inspired by the audiologists and speech pathologists who supported her, she hopes to pursue a career in audiology to do the same for others.