Volunteer presented with Heather Jackson Award Hearing Link volunteer James Newell has been presented with the prestigious Heather Jackson Award award.
Hearing aid users sought Hearing aid users, who are non-EU citizens, are being sought to take part in free hearing tests as part of a new customer research project. Douglas Stafford specialises in market research and mystery shopping and is recruiting participants for its next project. Those taking part will be asked to take an online test and will […]
Strangers In The Night. Let’s have something more upbeat than the last entry. Sue was on her own at the farm last night for a while, when three females approached her asking for help. No problem, apart from the fact it was dark – impossible for lipreading. Sue could see their outlines and knew they must have been speaking […]
Captioning Awareness Week 2016 Captioning Awareness Week will take place from 14th-19th November this year. The event, led by Stagetext, aims to raise awareness of captioning and live subtitling for people with hearing loss across the UK. This year, supporters are being asked to ‘put their name in a frame’ across social media to achieve this goal. They are being encouraged to […]
Banbridge Lipreading Group – new classes The Banbridge Lipreading Group, supported by Hearing Link, has begun a new term of 10 sessions in Northern Ireland. They will meet every Thursday, 2-4pm, from 6th October at the Tesco Community Room, Outlet Centre, Banbridge. New members are welcome to come along and take part. The group run by Leslie and Ramona Williams, and led […]
Grab yourself a Boogie Board This October, grab yourself our product of the month – one of our LCD Boogie Board eWriters! Starting prices from £19.99* it is the perfect tool to assist communication when out and about. It’s a tree-friendly alternative to a pen and paper, and is available in three sizes! Go to: http://shop.hearinglink.org/boogie-boards-29-c.asp to get yours. *Terms and conditions […]
Link Up comes to Leicester Our final Link Up programme of 2016 came to Leicester recently. We were delighted to welcome along our participants for the two day programme to learn about ways to manage the challenges of hearing loss. This was the fourth and final Link Up held in England in 2016, supported by the Big Lottery Fund. To […]
