Neuroscientist, business psychologist and change specialist, Dr Lynda Shaw is a successful professional speaker and mentor to CEOs but many of her clients would never know that she has significant hearing loss.
MUMPS SYMPTOMS (NHS) Mumps is a viral infection that is highly contagious, spread through infected saliva, typically when a person coughs or sneezes. It generally takes 2 weeks for a person to show symptoms after being exposed to the virus. It causes painful swelling of the salivary glands at the side of the face, [...]
Tinnitus will affect about 30% of us at some point during our lives and can occur in people of all ages. Whilst usually associated with a hearing loss it can also affect people with ‘normal’ hearing. It can be very distressing to those who live with it and it is never helpful to be told [...]
This is an interesting article from The American Tinnitus Association publication Tinnitus Today 2018. It describes the four stages of Tinnitus habituation, a positive approach for learning to live with Tinnitus.
Ahead of Tinnitus Awareness Week 4-10th February 2020, our very own Audiologist Sereta Parker from Thame speaks to Kat Orman on BBC Radio Oxford. Sereta and client Elaine Adam-Harris talked about how it feels to live with tinnitus, what causes it and how to get help. Whilst there is no cure for this condition Sereta explained [...]
Even with good hearing, Christmas festivities can be a challenge and it is easy to be left out of the conversation. Parties, restaurants and pubs are environments with a high level of background noise which is the biggest challenge for anyone’s hearing. If you have reduced hearing ability, even to a small degree, you will [...]
Zoe lost her hearing as a very young child at the age of just one year. Tests showed that she had sensorineural deafness in her right ear and mild hearing loss in her left ear. She says it didn’t affect her too much as a young child but it became more of a problem as [...]
A trip to the theatre should be an enjoyable experience, but what do you do if you have a hearing loss? I wear a hearing aid and find it difficult to hear the actors as my seat is usually far away and it is almost impossible to lipread them. This is where captioning technology can [...]
We are delighted to announce that Audiologist Matthew Ball has this week returned to Aston Hearing. Starting bright and early on Monday 30th September, Matthew Ball resumes his position as Audiologist at the Amersham practice after a special project helping to set up an audiology service within an Opthalmology practice in Northampton.Matthew trained in a [...]
