National charity Action on Hearing Loss is inviting people with hearing loss to take part in their focus groups this July to share their experiences and help shape the charity’s future.
Action on Hearing Loss is the UK’s largest charity representing people with hearing loss, deafness and tinnitus and is currently planning the next five years of its work.
The focus groups which include two BSL focus groups, will take place at the charity’s headquarters, 1-3 Highbury Station Road, London, N1 1SE, will help gather research for their new five-year organisational strategy.
The charity wants to hear people’s views on what it is like to live with hearing loss, deafness or tinnitus, and what would have the greatest impact on their life.
Current Opportunities, including sessions in British Sign Language:
- 3 July, 11am – 1pm – Focus Group: Your experiences of hearing loss, tinnitus or deafness
- 4 July, 5:30pm – 7:30pm – BSL Focus Group: your experiences and view
- 11 July, 5:30pm – 7:30pm – Focus Group: Your experiences of hearing loss, tinnitus or deafness
- 12 July 11am – 1pm – BSL Focus Group: your experiences and views
For more information about this research, how to register to join the focus groups or how to get involved, please email Gillian.Rollason@hearingloss.org.uk or call 020 3227 6045, or visit https://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/about-us/shaping-the-future-survey.aspx
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Tim
June 30, 2017
Waste of time.
RNID have been told again and again what a lot of us want: support for deaf people claiming PIP and ESA and more deaf employees at RNID, especially at the top.
But RNID really just want to decide and dictate our priorities for us while giving only the illusion of consultation
Hartmut
June 30, 2017
Join the focus group and tell them that being Deaf is beautiful and enriches mankind. The world needs existence and presence of Deaf people. Mankind consisting of hearing people only is boring with the disappearance of sign language and culture relying on vision. Tell them Deafness is not a disease, nor a suffering. If hearing people mourns the loss of hearing when they get older, good for them and embrace Deafness! When hearing people clamor the value of hearing, music, bird’s singing, etc., good for them and we wish them enjoyment in having them. Just for them, not for us!
RNID’s magazine “Hearing” once praised Deaf Pride upon reading an article by Roberts in Gallaudet College’s student paper Buff and Blue in the late 60’s. What happened to this enlightened sentiment?