Staying active in sport with hearing loss Hearing Link volunteer Shona has written a lovely blog for the English Federation of Disability Sport on her decision to take up cycling to get herself back “out there” after experiencing social isolation due to her hearing loss. Shona writes of her increasing confidence leading to her taking up running and even tackling a cycling velodrome! […]
Another One Bites the Dust Haven’t been online for a while due to laptop having a severe infection and slowing to pace that was unusable. Killed the virus, only ran slower and locked up. So… this is the first thing I’ve typed on our new, sparkly, crispy clean laptop. Won’t last. I’m a pipe smoker who insists that, just as […]
Practice your lipreading skills online Stories for Lipreading is a newly launched free website offering a variety of video clips of short stories being read aloud into camera by trained lip reading teachers.
Participants needed: do you suffer from dizziness? A team of researchers from the University of Southampton are looking for participants to take part in research concerning the management of dizziness. Dr MC Portillo, and her team, have been promoting the Balance Retraining LIFEGUIDE online tool through different organisations; including Hearing Link. You can access the Balance Retraining LIFEGUIDE Tool here: https://balanceretraininghs.lifeguidewebsites.org/player/play/balanceretraininghs Dr […]
Bring it on! I have started floating! Yes, you read that right and I mean it literally. And it’s wonderful. Us deaf folks have a very stressful life trying to keep up with what is happening in the hearing world. Getting introduced to people called Malcolm is particularly stressful -If you want to check it out have a […]
The little things in life I’m sitting on the sofa, leg curled under me, the fire blazing reading a book by Paul Gilbert ‘The compassionate mind’ for the second time. Chapter 7 Mindful Preparation on the Road to Compassion. Chris (my 10 year old) hands me a note. That is to say he simply places in in the middle of […]
Know your limitations It’s the time of year again; Alex has been asking me for the last week if we are coming for the parents evening at school. Rob is working and I – well to be honest am not looking forward to it. Last year he was still at the small Welsh primary school, the kind of […]
