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January 2008 Deafinitely Theatre - Playing God
The Wellcome Trust is hosting an event to showcase a new DVD called 'Playing God', a Wellcome Trust-funded play exploring issues around cochlear implants. The performance will take place on 29th February at 12.30pm at the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston...
Earl of Wessex picks up good vibrations!
The Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton, which includes the South of England Cochlear Implant centre, was officially opened by Prince Edward this week. The £6m research centre aims to revolutionise hearing and test the...
Paul Downes writes about his profound deafness and how a baha implant has added another depth to his hearing
I am 45 years old, married with two daughters aged 22 & 25 and two grandsons. I am profoundly deaf without my hearing aids and first started to lose my hearing pre-school around 1966. I was very fortunate that...
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Look out for glue ear
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) reports that one in five children between the ages of one and three years old will experience glue ear this winter. NDCS is warning parents and professionals to look out for glue ear, which...
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Climb every mountain
21 year old Jeremy Millensted, who is profoundly deaf, joined nine physically disabled young people and a TV crew and trekked for four weeks across Ecuador. The adventure will be featured on a TV programme on BBC2 in the spring,...
KT Tunstall writes music for her deaf brother
Rock star KT Tunstall wants to write music for her profoundly deaf brother Daniel, according to a report in Music-News. 28 year old Daniel was born with a hearing condition and had a cochlear implant fitted a few years ago...
New adventure to help develop speech
A computer game for deaf and hearing impaired children has been designed in Denmark by a team of game designers, speech therapists and a Danish scientist. The game, called Magic Drink, features adventure exercises aimed at developing the speech of...
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