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September 2006 CI guide for families
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) has received a commendation for its information booklet 'Cochlear Implants: A Guide for Families'. The full range of NDCS publications for parents and professionals can be downloaded from their website www.ndcs.org.uk...
Educating children with APD
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is a neurological condition that affects hearing. Although it was identified in the US in the 1960s, APD has only been recognised in the UK in the last few years. Sufferers cannot understand the sounds they...
Audiologists required
The UK desperately needs more audiologists, according to Angela King, senior audiology specialist for the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID). King urges careers advisers to promote audiology as a career option to young people. "There's a lot happening...
Deaf runner aims for 2012 Olympics
A partially deaf runner is aiming to become an Olympic star, despite being unable to hear the starting gun. Lauren Peffers, 17, has to take her cue to start a race from her fellow athletes but she has overcome the...
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Information for Deaf parents
The Deaf Parenting Project has produced an information video in British Sign Language with English Subtitles. The video, called 'Deaf Parents - Gaps in Services', shows Deaf parents sharing their experiences of maternity services in the U.K. It also describes...
Deaf travellers use LAMA communications
A group of research students at IBM has developed a system to make public announcements available to people on a mobile phone. Called LAMA, the service was originally conceived to improve communications for deaf people. Its designers hope that it...
Five year wait for hearing aids
The British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA) reports long waits waits across the UK for replacing analogue with digital aids. The BSHAA, having spoken to 242 UK hospitals, found that patients are having to wait up to five years...
Deaf Scotswoman sets world first
Heather McGilp has been appointed director of the Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters. When she takes up the post in Edinburgh in November, she will become the first deaf director of a professional association of sign language interpreters anywhere...
NDCS Big Walk Forward
On Sunday 3 September the National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) held its first ever sponsored walk around the Queen's Jubilee Walkway. The event - called the Big Walk Forward - raised a staggering £20,000 for the NDCS. Congratulations to everyone...
Josie's thoughts
13-year-old Josie, from North Yorkshire, was fitted with a cochlear implant in summer 2005. Here are her thoughts... I don’t mind being deaf, but it's annoying sometimes. I misunderstand people and then they get annoyed and get impatient and can't...
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RNID study tests Londoners' music volumes
The Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) has conducted a study on London streets, which concludes that eight out of every ten people listen to their music at volumes that are far too high. Eighty percent of the music...
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Don't Lose the Music awareness week
The RNID's Don't Lose the Music campaign launches its first awareness week today. Don't Lose the Music Week encourages young people to adopt a 'safer listening' approach to music by urging them to stand away from loud speakers, to take...
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