NDCS survey for professionals supporting children The National Deaf Children’s Society is currently conducting an online survey aimed at professionals supporting deaf children and young people. The aim of this survey is to help the National Deaf Children’s Society better understand its professional audience, in order to help better support professionals in providing advice and guidance to deaf children and young […]
Connect Hear NI launches in Northern Ireland A new Hearing Link project which aims to help more people with hearing loss reconnect with their families and communities has launched in Northern Ireland. Connect Hear NI, launched with two celebration events at Belfast Castle and Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen earlier this month. Volunteers and local organisations, including statutory and voluntary sector partners, joined […]
New project for people with hearing loss launches in Northern Ireland A new project which aims to help more people with hearing loss reconnect with their families and communities has launched in Northern Ireland. Connect Hear NI, led by the UK charity Hearing Link, launched with two celebration events at Belfast Castle and Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen earlier this month. The UK charity Hearing Link has […]
London Short Film Festival 2018 The London Short Film Festival has announced their first screening exclusively for audiences with hearing loss at the festival in January 2018. Head along to BFI southbank on 16th January 2018 at 6:30pm for an evening of archive and contemporary short films, highlighting d/Deaf culture and experience. All films will be fully subtitled. To keep up […]
Hear Here to host free social and networking event in London Hear Here, a social network for professionals living with hearing loss will be celebrating their 1st anniversary next week with an event at Canary Wharf in London. The group was formed to foster connections between those living and working with hearing loss who otherwise knew of no others affected in the same way and serves […]
Survey opportunity: coping at meetings and events with hearing loss How do you get on when you go along to meetings and events? Can you follow what people are saying? Can you enjoy chatting with others? Are the noise levels comfortable? Please contribute to this (reasonably!) short questionnaire https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Meetings006; so conclusions can be drawn about the nature of any difficulties and how widespread they are. […]
Volunteer May presented with Heather Jackson Award Hearing Link volunteer, May Wood, has been named the Heather Jackson Award recipient for 2017 for the significant contribution she has made to the welfare of the hearing loss community in the UK.
