This Guardian article featuring an audiologist from the NDCS is well worth a read:
Extract:
My day starts at 7am. Over breakfast I check my emails and scour Twitter, Facebook and news feeds for any questions that need answering, publications or news on the latest developments in audiology.
I am a home worker and spend most of the morning responding to online questions or requests for information from families. These will typically include a parent wanting to know the pros and cons of choosing grommet surgery or temporary hearing aids to treat glue ear, or the best technology for everyday things that most parents take for granted, such as communicating with a deaf child who is learning to ride a bike.
I trained as an audiologist straight from school 25 years ago and joined National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) as a specialist audiology adviser in 2004. The charity helps deaf children and their families by offering impartial, practical and emotional support, as well as challenging the government to improve services for the 45,000 deaf children in the UK.
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Cathy
May 25, 2015
And have services improved for those 45,000 deaf children over 25yrs? I wouldn’t be the tiniest bit surprised if they haven’t. Not when our Government are embroiled in far more pressing issues, such as the economy, immigration, housing, welfare and foreign affairs etc.
I can imagine deaf people and their needs will come way way down the list. And we also have the cuts to contend with so where will that leave deaf children if money for CIs and hearing aids is cut back? There was talk of only giving out 1 hearing aid instead of 2!!!
This kind of behaviour proves the Government do not have a clue about deaf people and never have. So in what ways are they expected to improve deaf childrens’ lives? It would be good to see some tangible results that deaf children even adults can relate to. As far as Iam aware I have seen nothing of the kind………