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Robert Mandara: Programming your own hearing aids, part 3. How to do it!
Last year, the BBC reported that more and more hearing aid users are programming their own hearing aids. Here, in the third part of a three-part series, Limping Chicken reader Robert Mandara explains how you can do it. Read part one by clicking here and part two by clicking here. In my last article I suggested […]
Robert Mandara: Programming your own hearing aids, part 1. Why you should do it!
March 28, 2013
Last year, the BBC reported that more and more hearing aid users are programming their own hearing aids. Here, in the first part of a three-part series, Limping Chicken reader Robert Mandara explains why you should do it. Would you buy a television if the salesman insisted that only he could set the channel, volume, […]
Deaf News: NHS audiology services “being cut”
October 24, 2012
According to research by Action on Hearing Loss, around 40% of NHS audiology services are facing cuts in funding. There are also indications that waiting times are getting longer and there is less follow-up care. Most worryingly of all, in some cases, patients are only being given one hearing aid. The BBC reports: Using the […]
Charlie Swinbourne: Does the word ‘deaf’ need to be redefined?
April 23, 2012
This morning I was tweeted by Curtis Alcock, a partner in a Hearing Centre (where hearing aids and other services are provided) who has recently set up a web-based think tank called Audira – which is aimed at ‘developing an ongoing roadmap for the future of hearing care in the UK.’ He sent me (along […]
Ni Gallant: Pimping my hearing aids
April 13, 2012
This Tuesday I had my first real experience of adult audiology when I visited Selly Oak HARC (Hearing Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre) in Birmingham. I have to say that I was incredibly nervous in the days before, as I knew I’d be swapping my broken old model hearing aids for something new and shiny – […]
Charlie Swinbourne: Syringing goo into a journalist’s ears doesn’t raise deaf awareness
March 1, 2012
When I first read an article called ‘What’s it like to be deaf?’ on a Norfolk news website I thought it might be a wind-up. But it’s not. As part of Deaf Awareness Week, an audiologist at Specsavers really did show a journalist what it would be like to be deaf by syringing some goo […]
Michelle Quayle: Audiology = Shushology
February 28, 2012
Growing up, I’ve been told my deafness has become progressively worse. How much ‘worse’ it you get when you’ve been profoundly Deaf from birth is beyond me. Wearing hearing aids from eight months old to the sweet age of sixteen sounds the same to me. From my big sister screeching “Michellllllle” to the tinkle of […]
Charlie Swinbourne: Seeing (and hearing) in high-definition
February 27, 2012
My life’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride over the last three years. I’ve become a father twice over, have written four films, worked on too many freelance projects to remember, set up this website and best of all, at the end of last summer, I got married to the delightful Mrs Swinbourne. (Just […]
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