VicCHILD Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH) 2020 VicCHILD is the 'Victorian Childhood Hearing Impairment Longitudinal Databank'. It is a Victorian register and research databank of children born with a permanent hearing loss. VicCHILD collects different types of information from children and their families, to create a unique resource for advancing research in hearing loss. VicCHILD ultimately aims to help children with permanent hearing loss reach their full developmental potentials.