Hearing loss and accessing legal services The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) wants people with a hearing to share their experiences of accessing legal services for civil matters. It is working with the British Deaf Association Scotland (BDA) www.bda.org.uk, the Scottish Council on Deafness (SCoD) www.scod.org.uk and the Deaf Sector Partnership http://deafsectorpartnership.net/ to carry out a short survey. Civil legal matters include divorce or separation, buying a house […]
Ramona raises £100 for Hearing Link She hopes to continue raising funds over the coming months by holding more car boot sales and similar fundraising activities. Ramona helped start the Banbridge Lipreading Group along with her husband Les Williams in 2015 after realising there was a lack of lipreading provision in their local community. They recently completed their third semester of […]
Hearing Link Matters magazine – summer 2016 The latest edition of our feature magazine Hearing Link Matters is out now! In this bumper 28-page Summer 2016 issue, we share the story of Emily Owen who tells of her experiences of living with Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2) in her newly published book “Still Emily – Seeing Rainbows in the Silence”. Singer-songwriter Rob Finlay shares his experience of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing […]
Survey launched to help shape Hearing Link digital services Hearing Link has launched a new online survey to help us understand how to shape our future digital services. In April this year, we unveiled a refreshed website which is mobile responsive giving users access at home or while on the go through tablets and smartphones. Using this development as a spring board, we now want to extend our […]
Successful Link Up Programme in Kidderminster Hearing Link was delighted to welcome old friends and new faces to our second Link Up Programme of 2016 in Bewdley near Kidderminster recently. Supported by the Big Lottery Fund, our free Link Up Programmes are an opportunity to manage your own hearing loss better with support from our team of experienced volunteers and other […]
BT bids to improve on-demand service for people with hearing loss Good news! Another big player in the broadcasting industry – BT TV – has launched a major project to improve its on-demand service for people with hearing loss. The broadcaster has recently made a large financial investment into new technology to enable subtitles to be displayed on its on-demand service, and is now inviting BT […]
Audiologist raises £1,700 for UK hearing loss charity An audiologist took on the Virgin Money London Marathon to raise vital funds for adults living with hearing loss in the UK. Chris Cartwright, 52, from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, has worked as an audiologist in the public and private sectors for 16 years before joining Phonak, a hearing solutions company; where he has […]
