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August 2007 Deaf children in Kenya get help from Ulster
Ulster teacher, Helen Moorehead, has given up her job as a teacher in Northern Ireland to teach deaf children in the Tharaka region of Kenya. When Helen discovered that deaf children in the remote bush area of Kenya had no...
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Durham councillor denied implant
Durham County Councillor Reg Ord, has been left struggling to understand those around him after a virus damaged his hearing. Despite being eligible for a cochlear implant, 70-year-old Reg was horrified when he was told that, because of an increase...
Deaf charity sets hot challenge
The charity, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, is looking for a minimum of 25 people to walk 20ft across hot coals to raise much needed money. The challenge, which is being organised to celebrate the charity’s 25th Anniversary year, will...
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Successful Deaf Role Models
Children between the ages of 0 to 18 living in Northern Ireland are being given the chance to meet successful deaf adults who will share their personal experiences of growing up deaf. The scheme is being organised by The National...
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Big MG the Deafblind DJ
Michael Gerwat, 58, told us his story as a guest writer on the DeafBlog in June last year. Despite being born blind, Michael loved music and in 1968 trained as a piano turner, working backstage with legends like Elton John...
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World of Sound
A new website, called World of Sound, has been launched so that people can find out more about cochlear implants and how they can literally open up ‘a world of sound’ to profoundly deaf children and adults. World of Sound...
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Search for first deaf babies identified on NHSP
The National Deaf Children’s Society is searching the UK to find the first children that were identified as deaf through the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP). They are specifically looking for the first child from each county that was identified...
By Liz Arendt, bilateral cochlear implant user and Chairperson of the Hertfordshire branch of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
Though I wasn't aware of it at the time, I started down the long slippery slope towards deafness when I was just eight years old, a side effect of scarlet fever. But it was only when I entered the...
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100th Baha in Wrexham
Iris Ganderton, a housewife from Anglesey, won herself a place in the history books when she recently became the 100th person to benefit from a bone conduction hearing implant at the Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales. 60-year-old Iris was...
Today programme causes uproar
Last Tuesday, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme featured a West End play called 'Playing God', about a deaf couple's decision to put their daughter forward for a cochlear implant. The playwright, a deaf woman whose comments were translated, and Emma...
RNID calls for subtitling in Peterborough cinema
Brian Lamb, of the RNID, has called for Showcase Cinemas in Peterboroguh to, "stop behaving like muggles and join the 230 UK cinemas who show films with subtitles every week", after nine year old Calum Daly - who is profoundly...
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