|
November 2009 Drum goes online!
Drum, the Cochlear Club annual magazine has gone online! Hearing implant recipients can now get top tips, shared experiences, Cochlear UK company and product updates, from the new site as well as from the magazine. The site, at drum-online.com...
continue reading
Blast off on a journey through space with the Science Museum's exciting BSL-supported events
By Sevinc Kisacik, Family Programmes Developer, Science Museum Three... two... one... blast off on a journey through the amazing world of space as you discover the answers to all those mind-boggling questions! Can a rocket really get to space...
continue reading
Baha opens new world for Alex
Alex Patel has been given a new world of opportunity thanks to a new Baha....
continue reading
Stephanie Beacham claims, "I used to get called 'Deaf Steph' at school"
"I used to get called 'Deaf Steph' at school," claims Stephanie Beacham, "and the hurt will live with me forever." "As a child, being deaf was dreadfully isolating, but I'm lucky to have any hearing at all. My mother,...
continue reading
Vatican officials say church must improve service to deaf community
While the Catholic Church no longer considers deafness an impediment to ordination, there are only 13 priests in the world who were ordained deaf, said officials of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry. Msgr. Jean-Marie Mpendawatu, undersecretary of...
continue reading
I'm nearly blind and deaf, I can't walk but I can play guitar...
Busking is a tough way of making money at the best of times. The young musicians, who usually entertain passers-by outside shops and railway stations, have a hard enough time enduring the wind and rain which is an occupational...
continue reading
Baby is 1,000th cochlear implant patient
The Nottingham Cochlear Implant Programme is celebrating its 1,000th patient - an eight-month-old baby. Nottingham University Hospitals Trust runs the programme at the Queen' s Medical Centre and the Ropewalk in Nottingham. The first cochlear implant operation was carried out...
continue reading
YouTube introduces automatic captions to videos
In a move that will make thousands more videos accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired, Google announced that videos on its YouTube site would sport machine-generated automatic captions. Google has offered user-generated captioned videos for three years. What...
continue reading
BBC casts deaf actress in lead role
A deaf actress has been handed the lead role in a primetime BBC thriller. Genevieve Barr will play deaf teenager Amelia Edwards in a new BBC1 four part series called The Silence. She won the role while on the...
continue reading
ITV under fire for deaf services cutbacks
ITV bosses are coming under fire after making cutbacks to their sign-language department, Signpost. The department is shedding seven of its 24 sign language experts who appear on programmes for the deaf and hard of hearing. The British Deaf...
continue reading
Deaf dancer wins South Africa’s Got Talent
A deaf 19 year-old South African Indian hip-hop dancer Darren Rajbal has won South Africa’s Got Talent. The show, which follows the exact format of Britain’s Got Talent, has been going on for the past three months and featured...
continue reading
Hope for drug that prevents hearing loss in old age
Scientists in America claim to have pinpointed the gene that causes hearing loss in old age. The research revealed that a gene called ‘bak’ is the main cause of developing the condition. This could lead to various medical breakthroughs...
continue reading
Hard-of-hearing businessman shortlisted for Stelios Entrepreneur Award
Mohammad Al Ubaydli from Cambridge hasn’t let his hearing impairment stop him from running a successful IT business in the health sector and being nominated for the Stelios Award for Disabled Entreprenuers. Mohammad, 33 became hard-of-hearing following a genetic...
continue reading
Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity to meet deaf youngsters
A group of deaf youngsters will have the chance to meet the winners of this year’s Britain’s Got Talent, Diversity. The event, which is supported by the Bromley Deaf Children’s Society, will take place at the Glades shopping centre...
continue reading
Jenny Moir, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People
Imagine waking up to a furry face and two paws scrabbling at your duvet? What a great way to start the day! Well, more than 800 people in the UK experience this ritual every morning, when their hearing dog...
continue reading
Buckinghamshire Labrador is top dog for November
Ludo, a hearing dog in Buckinghamshire has been named Hearing Dog of the Month by the charity that trained him. Ludo was six months old when he was donated to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People by a member of...
continue reading
Alan Knight campaigns to change attitudes to deafness
Pompey football legend Alan Knight spent years struggling to hear conversations. But now hearing aids have transformed his life and he is campaigning to change attitudes to deafness. 'That John Westwood has got a lot to answer for,' smiles...
continue reading
Motocross rider Josh to be featured on See Hear
Coleford Motocross rider Josh Waterman is to be featured on the BBC2 programme for the deaf, See Hear, on November 11. Josh, 17, recently clinched the British MXY2 and BYMX Championships. He represented England and is an AutoCycle Union...
continue reading
Survey calls for IT to help hearing impaired patients
More than half of deaf and hearing impaired patients regularly face difficulties communicating with their GP surgery and would like practices to make greater use of IT solutions, according to a new survey. Patient information website Patient.co.uk and charity...
continue reading
|
Recent posts
CategoriesArchives
|
