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April 2007 Listening to Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
A new booklet called Young People and their Cochlear Implants has been published thanks to a unique research project funded by the National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) and The Ear Foundation. In the leaflet, young deaf people with cochlear implants...
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A bit of an Earfull!
Signed performances of Tim Barlow's hilarious one man show, Earfull, will be staged at Battersea Arts Centre, London, on 10 April 2007 at 2pm and 14 April 2007 at 3pm. Taking a funny and painful look at what it’s like...
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A marathon effort for son Zach
Father of four, Marlon Hodges, is running in the London Marathan to raise money for the Royal National Insitutute for the Deaf (RNID). He has chosen this charity because they have given vital support to his profoundly deaf three year...
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The Moonbird
Joyce Dunbar, who is profoundly deaf, is a widely respected author of more than fifty books for children. One particular book by the author, called Moonbird, is a beautifully told story about a little prince who is deaf. The story...
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Meet your PLOD at Avon and Somerset Police!
It may sound like something out of an Enid Blyton Noddy book, but people living across the force - in the Portishead, Somerset, Bath and South Gloucestershire areas - really can go to meet Mr Plod, or rather PLOD –...
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Look at me!
Organisations working with deaf people across the country are inviting everyone to ‘Look At Me’ on 7th to 13th May during Deaf Awareness Week. The ‘Look At Me’ campaign is supported by over a hundred deaf charities and organisations under...
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Welsh surgeon attacks Assembly's attitude to CI funding
An ear surgeon has compared Wales to a third world country and accused it of cruelty for refusing to give cochlear implants to deaf people. In letter to a young deaf patient, Miss Andrea Price of Llangurig in Montgomeryshire, who...
Deafness Matters
A film has just been made with a group of young people from Oxfordshire Deaf Children's Society (ODCS) to raise awareness about deafness and how it affects people. The young people devised drama sequences, based on their own experiences, and...
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Baha benefits Manchester grandma
Patricia Rae from Fallowfield in Manchester has suffered from hearing problems for over sixty years. Her confidence suffered and she became more and more isolated until she was fitted with a bone conduction hearing implant called a Baha at Manchester...
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