The Weekend Selection: The time for change edition

Posted on September 7, 2013 by



Here are the top five new blogposts from the previous 7 days.

  1. Andy Palmer: As school starts again, my tips for other parents of deaf children
  2. Ady Swinbourne: Why I got private hearing aids after 29 years with the NHS
  3. Deaf News: Deaf swimmer “kicked off lifeguard course for being deaf”
  4. Donna Williams: The BBC are treating me like a second-class Doctor Who fan
  5. Exclusive: “We’ve may have reached a turning point” says Sir Malcolm Bruce after Parliament meeting of deaf groups

And the top three not from the previous seven days

  1. Ian Noon: The impact of concentration fatigue on deaf children should be factored in
  2. Charlie Swinbourne: The 10 annoying habits of hearing people
  3. Donna Williams: Why everyone should give Big Brother winner Sam Evans a break

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