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Diary EXCLUSIVE interview with Rebecca Dunne from forthcoming BBC drama, 'The Silence'
When will The Silence be hitting our screens? We are hoping that The Silence will be launched in May. If not, then in June on BBC. Which character do you play? I play one of the main girl's deaf...
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Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss – my story
My name is Graham and I am 36 years young, married with two daughters under the age of two (lots of fun!) and in July 2009, I became deaf overnight. This story actually starts ten years ago when for...
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Gerry Leeper on his cochlear implant and how he can hear his grandchildren laugh again
I suffered my first severe bout of Ménière's Disease at the age of 27, a relatively rare condition which involves bouts of dizziness, nausea, tinnitus and fluctuating hearing loss. From then, my deafness progressively worsened until I lost all...
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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...
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Marjorie Sherman Memorial Lecture 2009
Given by Dr Patricia Chute What? Cochlear Implant Conundrums: Is it the map, the equipment, the services or the child? When? Thursday 12 November at 5.30pm Where? The Ear Foundation, Nottingham Dr Pat Chute will be giving this year’s...
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Deaf Masked Ball, 1 October 2009, Southampton
£35 per ticket. 210 tickets sold, ONLY 10 TICKETS LEFT! The Deaf Masked Ball is open to everyone – hearing, D/deaf, deafened, hard of hearing and cochlear implant recipients. It will be a chance for supporters of Hampshire Deaf...
My time as a princess at Disney, by Laura Bolter
Winning Ferndown Carnival Queen had been so much fun, as had representing my town at lots of different events, but the special prize was an all-expenses paid trip to Euro Disney, Paris, where I would get to compete for...
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Next Nucleus Freedom information evening, Thursday 21 May
Cochlear is holding its next Nucleus Freedom information evening this Thursday, on the 21 May at Crowne Plaza, Birmingham NEC. Cochlear is inviting CI candidates and those about to start their implant journey and/or their parents to the evening,...
'Deafinitely Girly' – new girl on the blog
Deafinitely Girly, 28 from London, tells her story. When I was three years old, Ma pulled me out of nursery as I was always getting into trouble for not knowing the songs that the teacher sang with us. At...
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TWILIGHT LECTURE with Kristina English
Audiologic Counselling Date : 2nd June 2009 Duration : 1 day Venue : The Ear Foundation, Nottingham Cost : Free Counseling includes the concept of “therapeutic listening,” defined as providing a troubled sender the opportunity to talk through a problem....
Mum Jennifer on her triplets and son Cormac’s cochlear implant
On April 6th 2006 I became a mother of three little boys. Yep, I had triplets. It was by far the happiest day of my life. It was not easy getting through the pregnancy and we had many scares...
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Nucleus Freedom information evening
Date: 26 February, 6pm-8.30pm Venue: Thistle Hotel Charing Cross, The Strand in London Cochlear Europe is inviting CI candidates and/or their parents to an information evening, to learn more about its innovative Nucleus Freedom cochlear implant system and how...
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My Baha diary, by Mark De Klerk
Mark De Klerk talks about his Baha experience. I only recently became a Baha wearer. I was born with the genetic disorder Treacher-Collins Syndrome. The symptoms of this disorder vary greatly, ranging from almost unnoticeable to severe. Most affected...
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My cochlear implant, by Amanprit Johal
Amanprit Johal, winner of the Cochlear Graeme Clark Scholarship Award, talks about her cochlear implant experience. I am Amanprit Johal, a third year student studying for a BSc in Geography with Urban and Regional Planning at the University of...
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My cochlear implant, by Laura Jakubowski
Laura Jakubowski, 23, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the last of a five-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one, two, three and four here. Part five I went to see my GP and was prescribed...
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My cochlear implant, by Laura Jakubowski
Laura Jakubowski, 23, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the fourth of a five-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one, two and three here. Part four Christmas Day was good, although my brother got the best...
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My cochlear implant, by Laura Jakubowski
Laura Jakubowski, 23, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the third part of a five-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one and two here. Part three After passing ten GCSEs at school, I went on to...
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My cochlear implant, by Laura Jakubowski
Laura Jakubowski, 23, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the second of a five-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one here. Part two After a few weeks, we got an appointment to go and see my...
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My cochlear implant, by Laura Jakubowski
Laura Jakubowski, 23, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the first of a five-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Part one I wasn't born into family of two before my brother came along two years later, my parents...
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My Cochlear Implant, by Alison Patuck PART FOUR – life with a cochlear implant
Alison, 26, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the last of a four-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part three here. I had my cochlear implant annual review on 16th November 2004. The CI is now part...
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My Cochlear Implant, by Alison Patuck PART THREE – switch on!
Alison, 26, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the third of a four-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one here and part two here. Until the 9th October, which was my switch on day, I spent...
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My Cochlear Implant, by Alison Patuck PART TWO - the operation
Alison, 26, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the second of a four-part diary series on the DeafBlog. Read part one here Over the course of 2001, I had the usual hearing tests, balance tests, CT, and then...
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My Cochlear Implant, by Alison Patuck
Alison, 26, talks about her cochlear implant experience, in the first of a four-part diary series on the DeafBlog. I had my Cochlear Implant fitted in 2001, and three and a half years on, felt that it was time...
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Living with cochlear implants, by Elaine Webster
I was born in 1969 with significant hearing loss as a result of maternal rubella. Although I had no useful hearing in my right ear, I had some hearing in my left ear and benefited for many years from...
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Teaching me to hear, by Val Blakely
There were certainly times when I found out my first born was deaf, that I doubted the day he would ever hear. He had severe ear malformations that actually prevented him from receiving a cochlear implant the first attempt....
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Mum Annabel talks about how Freddie’s Bahas have really improved his quality of life
Freddie is nine yrs old and has Downs Syndrome. People with Downs Syndrome have an extra chromosome, which in Freddie's case has caused a number of problems including poor hearing. For six years we unsuccessfully tried a number of hearing...
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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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Do nothing ‘til you hear from me
Mine was a very gradual hearing loss. I don’t know when it started – probably at birth. My earliest memories of anything being wrong date from boyhood. Many years later, I came to realise the significance of many things that...
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Lyn Kolsteren, a Baha user since 1998 and chairperson of the Baha users support group, tells the story of her hearing dog Liffey
November 2006 The few weeks until I went to the centre for my training week soon passed. The week was like a working holiday, I was very well cared for and made very welcome, as Liffey and I lived and...
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Lyn Kolsteren, a Baha user since 1998 and chairperson of the Baha users support group, tells the story of her hearing dog Liffey
October 2006 On the 4th October 2006 I had a letter through the door, with the Hearing Dogs frank on the front. I held my breath and told myself that it was “another newsletter”. But when I opened it the...
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The BCIG conference Hello, my name is Margaret and I have been a cochlear implant user since August 2004. On 12th and 13th April I was fortunate to attend the British Cochlear Implant Group’s Annual Conference at the Royal College...
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My Baha diary
My name’s Karen, though my mates call me Kazz or Kazzy. I’m 44 years old and I live near Folkestone in Kent. I was about 24 when I first started having hearing problems - the occasional ear infection with...
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My work experience at the Cochlear Technology Centre
Hello everyone, I’m Michael Batt, a cochlear implant user of 17 years. I am in my final year of studying Design and Technology for Industry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Cheshire and I felt I had to do some...
My work experience at the Cochlear Technology Centre
Hello everyone, I’m Michael Batt, a cochlear implant user of 17 years. I am in my final year of studying Design and Technology for Industry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Cheshire and I felt I had to do some...
My work experience at the Cochlear Technology Centre
Hello everyone, I’m Michael Batt, a cochlear implant user of 17 years. I am in my final year of studying Design and Technology for Industry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Cheshire and I felt I had to do some...
My work experience at the Cochlear Technology Centre
Hello everyone, I’m Michael Batt, a cochlear implant user of 17 years. I am in my final year of studying Design and Technology for Industry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Cheshire and I felt I had to do some...
My work experience at the Cochlear Technology Centre
Hello everyone, I’m Michael Batt, a cochlear implant user of 17 years. I am in my final year of studying Design and Technology for Industry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Cheshire and I felt I had to do some...
My work experience at the Cochlear Technology Centre
Hello everyone, I’m Michael Batt, a cochlear implant user of 17 years. I am in my final year of studying Design and Technology for Industry at Manchester Metropolitan University in Cheshire and I felt I had to do some...
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Marathon Mum runs for Deafness Research
Victoria Banks, who lost her hearing at the age of two and had a cochlear implant in August 2005, took part in this year’s London Marathon to raise money for Deafness Research UK. 23 April 2006, Marathon Day -...
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Three months on
By Gill Pickford After the first few weeks of hearing everything in a robotic way my brain soon adapted and things sound very normal now. Everybody I know can see a difference in my hearing - they all think it...
Learning to hear again
By Gill Pickford I now have a two month break from my visits to the Cochlear Implant unit - I have had about four mappings up until now. My implant has four settings. Programme one is my normal setting. Programme...
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One Week after Switch On
By Gill Pickford I went back for another mapping on 20th December. One week post op. I also had some tests. These were pre-op and post-op tests to compare. I had to sit in front of a screen and listen...
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New Noises
By Gill Pickford. I had my second mapping on 16th December. My audiologist Deborah said I am doing well for such a short space of time. I said that the noises from the first programming sounded high pitched. She said...
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Switched On
Gill Pickford had normal hearing until about 10 to 12 years ago. It gradually declined until, four years ago, she became profoundly deaf. Gill has just had a cochlear implant and will be updating her diary as she makes progress...
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