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This blog's main focus is on cochlear and baha implants and the impact they have in helping both young and old to hear. We also cover topics that we hope will be of interest to all Deaf people and the community as a whole. If you wish to contribute please email us at the address below.
Diary My Cochlear Implant, by Alison Patuck PART TWO - the operation Alison, 26, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the second of a four-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one here Over the course of 2001, I had the usual hearing tests, balance tests, CT, and then an MRI scan, psychological, hearing and speech therapy assessments. I also spoke at length with various people within the team and met a cochlear implant user which helped enormously. In May, when I met with my consultant Mr Robinson again, I was certain that I wanted to get more out of my hearing and decided to go ahead with the implant. At the time I still wasn’t sure what to expect, but from what I’d heard, I knew it would really help me. Continue reading July 15, 2008 \| Permalink \| Comments (1) Proud Mum, Jackie Mason, watches daughter’s Sammy’s school nativity play. Broadcast on BBC North West Tonight on Thursday 13th December 2007.	News, Views and Updates The DeafBlog joins Facebook As some of you may not yet know, we have a Facebook group that we’d love for you to join. We post up pictures, links and news stories, and enable more discussion. The Facebook accompaniment to the DeafBlog, of the same name, is designed for deaf people and/or those who have an interest in the deaf community. You can contact us with content for this site through there, as well as by emailing hello@thedeafblog.co.uk. continue reading July 23, 2008 \| Permalink \| Comments (1) Campaign to help deaf and blind launched A deafblind charity launched an awareness campaign at the recent Welsh Assembly to highlight the growing number of older people in Wales with combined sight and hearing loss. The charity hopes AMs’ support will lead to more services being delivered to older people with sight and hearing problems. continue reading July 21, 2008 \| Permalink \| Comments (0) It's not a Bluetooth headset! The first time someone snatched the speech processor from behind her son's ear, Hilda Giron got it back. She’d been shopping for groceries and shouted to the cashier to watch three-year-old Jose while she took off after the young thief and his accomplice. The boys probably thought they had grabbed a Bluetooth headset, which are in high demand now that drivers are required to use their mobile phones hands-free. Luckily, the boys ditched the earpiece – the external part of Jose's implanted hearing device, as they fled. Giron found it in the market carpark, still intact. continue reading July 15, 2008 \| Permalink \| Comments (1) 'More' sign from Finlay – after operation gives joy of music A boy who was born deaf signed the word "more" the first time he heard music after an operation to restore his hearing. Finlay McNamara was so excited to hear the 1990s pop song after undergoing a cochlear implant operation that he wanted to hear it again. His mother, Louise, said the word out loud to her three-year-old son and he repeated it after listening to Macarena by Los del Rio on the car radio on their way home. continue reading July 3, 2008 \| Permalink \| Comments (0) Disabled models to compete in reality TV show Some of Britain's most beautiful disabled women are to be given the chance to become a top model in a ground-breaking BBC television series. Britain's Missing Top Model, which starts tomorrow (Tuesday), hopes to challenge the boundaries that appear to exist in the image-obsessed world of fashion. The BBC3 series will follow eight women with disabilities including one who is profoundly deaf, and over six weeks, the contestants will try to prove to a panel of experts that they have what it takes to become a model. The woman who impresses the judges the most will win a photo shoot with a leading fashion photographer and appear in a top women's glossy magazine. continue reading June 30, 2008 \| Permalink \| Comments (1)

Guest Column

The Barker family story

Joshua, 8 and Dominic, 5 are two lively, fun-loving little boys with a real love of life. They are also both profoundly deaf. Mum Amanda tells her story:

When Josh was born, we had no reason to believe that there was anything wrong with his hearing, but at the age of seven months he failed his distraction test, and then again at nine months.

We were referred for further tests but Josh couldn’t sit still for long enough and there was no confirmation of a problem. We still didn’t think there was anything wrong – he seemed to be behaving normally and was a very happy, sociable baby. Looking back, what he didn’t do was progress beyond the babbling stage.

June 7, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

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