The Royal Academy of Arts in London is inviting hearing aid users to get in touch who can help them to test its new theatre. It recently opened the Benjamin West Lecture Theatre and is testing its new assistive listening systems to ensure its talks, films and other spoken word events are accessible for all. […]
Our Scotland volunteer Ann Thallon was out and about raising awareness of Hearing Link’s services this week. She joined other organisations from across Fife at the Technology Roadshow in Dunfermline at the Vine Conference Centre. It was a great chance to tell the local community about our Helpdesk, LinkUp groups and more. The event is […]
The Scottish charity Deaf Action is to host a free lipreading course for adults in Edinburgh. The two-year programme is for adults who have a hearing loss and want to boost their confidence and communication skills by learning to lipread. The course offers information and support to manage your hearing. It is a great way […]
The UK’s largest virtual audiology conference featuring eminent speakers on a wide range of Audiology topics will take place next month (December). The British Society of Audiology (BSA) event, takes place online from 1st-31st December – so no need to travel to benefit from the content available. The programme covers a number of audiology topics […]
Our first LinkUp group was held in Edinburgh recently for individuals and their family members seeking information and support for hearing loss. These groups have already successfully run across England since last year, and we were delighted to welcome along a full group for this first event in Scotland’s capital. The participants talked about technology, […]
In anticipation of our new ways of working with families and in communities, we have been delivering a series of volunteer training weekends throughout the autumn. Each event is addressing one broad area of activity for Hearing Link, including the following: personalised one-to-one support small group programmes volunteer leadership, team coordination and community engagement marketing, […]
Starting from this autumn, the National Theatre in London will be offering D/deaf audience members the chance to book a pair of augmented reality glasses (or Smart Caption Glasses) which project subtitles onto the lenses. Initially the glasses will be on offer for Hadestown and War Horse, but the National plans to roll the glasses out for […]
