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Guest Column The Barker family story
Joshua, 8 and Dominic, 5 are two lively, fun-loving little boys with a real love of life. They are also both profoundly deaf. Mum Amanda tells her story: When Josh was born, we had no reason to believe that there...
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Joshua's life has been transformed by a Baha. Mum Lesley tells his story
Joshua was not only born nearly deaf but also he had no external ears. When he was 9 years old, he was fitted with a bone conduction hearing implant called a Baha and his life has been transformed. The...
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By Julie Ryder, founder of HearFirst and TalkFirst
I was 21 years old in December 1991 and was working at NatWest Bank in Rochdale. I picked up the phone and noticed that I couldn’t hear that well. After seeing my GP (thinking that my ears needed syringing)...
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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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By James, a 14-year-old cochlear implant recipient Hi, I’m James King, I’m 14 years old and I’m Cochlear implanted – having been so from the age of two; and I’ve just enjoyed an awesome week in the French Alps skiing...
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By David, father to ten-year-old Hamish
Hamish scores at the coolest game on earth! Shortly after his birth in January 1997, we quickly became concerned that Hamish was not hearing very well. His older sister, Fenella, had always been a very noisy baby and Hamish...
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By Kate, mum to 14-year-old James
STAGETEXT - have you seen a captioned theatre performance yet? I have always loved going to the theatre. As a child it was a wonderful treat and a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I wished to share this feeling with my...
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By Kate, mum to 14-year-old James
Is choosing state education too ambitious? James was deafened by meningitis at 16 months and received a cochlear implant at 25 months. When I told my local Teacher of the Deaf that my husband and I were considering sending...
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By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9
Lily is doing brilliantly and is happy. She's excited to be a new Primary 5 girl and has just been away with her whole year group on a outward bound four days. She managed her implants herself and there were...
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Josie's thoughts
13-year-old Josie, from North Yorkshire, was fitted with a cochlear implant in summer 2005. Here are her thoughts... I don’t mind being deaf, but it's annoying sometimes. I misunderstand people and then they get annoyed and get impatient and can't...
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A quest for bilaterals, by Jason Broekhuizen, dad to two-year-old Tom.
Tom contracted Pneumococcal Meningitis in mid-April 2006 and was left profoundly deaf as a result. He received a cochlear implant on June 15th 2006. Below is an extract from Jason's blog: Thursday, July 27, 2006 I'm having what a polite...
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Michael Gerwat, the DeafBlind DJ
I was born blind, so I don’t know what sight is like. I worked for over 20 years as a piano tuner, meeting the most famous rock bands in the world and tuning their pianos. I have shaken hands with...
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By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9
I don’t know why we didn’t try until now but tonight - for the first time - we tested to see if Lily could tell which direction sound was coming from. I think I was scared – I never...
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By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9 Six months post switch on. Lily seems to have an another surge of clarity with her new implant. I am noticing a big improvement and her teacher of the deaf...
By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9
Progress with the new implant seems to have slowed down now. It is tricky to do as much rehab work as I would like as the older and more confident in her personality Lily becomes, the more likely she is...
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By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9
Today is 3 months since Lily was switched on - we went for a re-map appointment at Manchester last week and had Lily's second implant fine tuned. It has made a huge difference to her putting the coil back on...
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By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9
We are still having problems getting Lily to put the new implant back on when it falls off, but she is wearing it enough for it to be working well. We did some 'open set' (out of the blue) phrases...
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My daughter's second cochlear implant - an update
By Carolyn, mum to bi-lateral implant user Lily, aged 9 Lily is wearing her new implant most of the time, but if she flicks it off when things get noisy then sometimes she doesn't remember to put it back on....
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My daughter's second cochlear implant - an update
By Carolyn, mum to Lily, aged 9 Things are progressing well with the new implant - though not as well as I had hoped after her meteoric start. We have another rehab session on Monday so I am hoping that,...
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My daughter's second cochlear implant
By Carolyn, mum to Lily, aged 9 I wanted Lily to have another CI so that if her head was injured or if her first implant failed at any point in her life she would have a back up. Additionally...
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