What everybody ought to know about hearing loss
A list of things that everyone with hearing loss needs to know. Useful for those having problems with their hearing ...
Digital hearing aids
What is a digital hearing aid? What does it do and how does it work? What is a digital hearing aid? Very ...
Buying your first hearing aid
If you are not hearing as much as you would like and you think you may benefit from a hearing ...
Analogue and digital hearing aids are very, very different things. Analogue aids use older and simpler technology. If you are a long-term analogue user and you are having problems hearing well with new digital aids then try this: Ask your audiologist to turn off noise reduction on your digital aids, if they can’t turn it [...]
If you’ve ever phoned a computer support helpline or asked your company’s I.T. support team for help then you’ve probably heard these immortal words: “Have you tried turning it off and then on again?” It’s become a bit of a joke but it actually works and solves many computer problems. A computer has two types [...]
Charles Limb is a surgeon who performs cochlear implantation, he is also a musician. In this 15-minuted TED talk he discusses how we hear and experience speech and music in very different ways, demonstrates how music sounds to a cochlear implant wearer and talks about other problems with CIs. Charles’ goal in his work is [...]
How well my day goes is more or less governed by how well I am hearing. I’ve written before that subtle changes in how much I can hear happen day-to-day. If I’m hearing well then I am full of confidence, happy and outgoing. I’m starting conversations, joining in group conversation, I’m out and about and [...]
A deaf football player was sent off after celebrating an offside goal because he couldn’t hear the whistle. Philip John Dolan, who plays for the Great Britain and Scotland deaf football teams, was playing for Kilsyth against Armadale in a replay of a Scottish Junior Cup tie when the referee ruled him offside. Unable to [...]
The following is a guest post from Samantha Harvey of Sarabec Hearing Products – the personal listening device specialists. Listening to the television and radio, using a telephone, or even answering the doorbell are things some people take for granted, but if you are hard of hearing these things are a real struggle. Assistive Listening [...]
The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) is campaigning to get the UK government to provide better access to sign language courses for hearing parents of deaf children. Nine out of ten deaf children are born to hearing families who have little to no experience of deafness. Communicating with your child is a basic right, but [...]
Amplifon have produced a very nice infographic about hearing loss. From their site: Admitting you have hearing loss can be very difficult. Nobody wants to admit they are getting older, but with up to 4 million people in the UK suffering in silence, everyone has a part to play when it comes breaking the stigma [...]
