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January 2006 Deaf toddler gets a little help from his friends
Two year old Joseph Green from Oldham in Lancashire has a big thank you for all the staff, parents and children at his local nursery group. They've been chipping in to raise money for a vital operation that will help...
300th Hampshire implant
Patients and staff at the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre are celebrating this week as little Ellie James becomes the 300th person to receive a cochlear implant at the centre. Ellie is eighteen months old and became deaf last...
Ellie starts something amazing
A deaf American woman called Michelle Tjelmeland has just won an award for her website, www.iloveellie.com. Michelle's daughter Ellie was born deaf and received a cochlear implant in 1999. The site aims to provide information and support for other parents...
Learning to hear again
By Gill Pickford I now have a two month break from my visits to the Cochlear Implant unit - I have had about four mappings up until now. My implant has four settings. Programme one is my normal setting. Programme...
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My daughter's second cochlear implant - an update
By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9 Lily is wearing her new implant most of the time, but if she flicks it off when things get noisy then sometimes she doesn't remember to put it back on....
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Deaf-blogs.com
A group of British deaf people have launched a major new internet service which aims to bring deaf people from across the globe closer together. Deaf-blogs.com is a new free service which will bring together blogs by deaf people from...
Deaf mother of two is the one to watch
On Thursday 12th January, at 7.55pm, Channel 4 will be showing a short programme called 'Me and My Machine'. This week's programme will focus on a deaf mother of two who reveals how her life has been made easier by...
UK's first Freedom implant
Calum Spence was born profoundly deaf two and a half years ago. He was given a hearing aid two months later but it was of no benefit at all. In May 2005 Calum was the first person in the UK...
Telephone hearing test
Workers are being encouraged to check their hearing with a telephone-based hearing test set up by the RNID. The TUC warns that, as people are now working for longer and more than 40% of people over 50 are suffering hearing...
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