Our bumper newsletter for July and August is now out! In this month's issue: Practice update News just in...! Team update Age related hearing loss Lipreading and how it can help Summer staycation in the Chilterns Local events Your garden in July/August Poem Click here to read it Click [...]
"I am an ENT Surgeon and was Professor of ENT in Manchester for 20 years. I gave up the N and the T and specialised in Otology and Neuro-otology. Over the years I removed around 1200 acoustic neuromas. In the 1980s interest began to grow in the possibility of restoring the hearing of profoundly deaf [...]
Long time client, Ruby Sharp, has lived with a profound hearing loss her entire life and continues to embrace challenges that come her way. She has had a varied career in nursing and teaching and currently teaches ceramics and art to students from her own pivate studio. This is her story. “I was born very prematurely at 28 weeks gestation and spent 6 weeks in an incubator, requiring resuscitation twice [...]
Hearing loss is often a gradual process that creeps up on you as the years go by but for some people it can happen very suddenly and without warning. Let us introduce you to Des Gilmore who experienced hearing loss and how it affected his life and passion for travelling with classic cars. [...]
by Carole Arnold Mum to 2 hearing aid wearing children both of whom also have Down's Syndrome I remember so clearly that moment in hospital, New Years Eve 2004, when a paediatrician told me that my baby had Downs syndrome. He told me about so many things that he [...]
Who are they and what do they do? Speen Helping Hospices (SHH) is a small voluntary group run by a team of committed women from Speen and North Dean to fundraise for four local hospices: Helen House for Children, Rennie Groves Hospice Care, South Bucks Hospice at Home and Florence Nightingale in [...]
Some degree of hearing loss is quite common in children with Down’s Syndrome and it is important to find out if your child has a hearing loss as early as possible so that social and language development are not affected. Throughout childhood their hearing should be tested regularly. The first step is to make an appointment [...]
Being in lockdown means that we are back to mainly communicating remotely; whether it's a text message, WhatsApp, phone call, video call or email it can make life harder, again, for those with hearing loss. The hardest virtual communication method is often group video calls, especially with non-family members and is often used in [...]
At the end of what has been a challenging year, many of us were looking forward to a few days of social interaction, comfort from family members and a touch of normality. So yesterday after learning of our new tier and some of the toughest Christmas restrictions imaginable we were feeling a little [...]
As you will all be aware the plans to relax Covid rules at Christmas have now been scrapped and we are placed into new tier 4 restrictions. This means we are only allowed to celebrate Christmas with members of our own household and support bubbles. People in tier 4 are not allowed to travel [...]
