by Administrator | Nov 26, 2018 | Advocacy
I take an eight tonne lorry around the UK, teaching young people and their families about deaf awareness. My day starts at 7am when my travel alarm clock starts vibrating under my pillow. As I am profoundly deaf, I rely on the vibrations to ensure I get out of bed,...
by Administrator | Nov 26, 2018 | Advocacy
Raising kids is hard. Add a diagnosis of hearing loss and you might find yourself thinking parenting is not for the faint of heart. My children were born with needs categorized as “special.” They look like typical kids (with the exception of their devices) but they...
by Administrator | Nov 26, 2018 | Advocacy
I’m too hard of hearing to be considered part of the hearing world, but I’m not deaf enough to be considered part of the Deaf world. I was born with a moderate bilateral high-frequency hearing loss. According to my family, I had enough hearing to adapt to the hearing...
by Administrator | Nov 26, 2018 | Advocacy
Hearing and listening are the cornerstones for learning for almost all children. If a child cannot clearly hear or attend to spoken information, speech and learning spoken language will likely be impacted. This means that hearing loss can cause learning challenges...
by Administrator | Aug 7, 2018 | Advocacy
We brought our boys home from Russia when they were 15 months old. When they were 22 months old, Mark was diagnosed with severe to profound hearing loss. He was fitted with hearing aids a month later. Mark is now a teenager. I remember feeling completely overwhelmed....
by Administrator | Feb 23, 2018 | Advocacy
Our 200 years of deaf education in the United States owe their existence to two men who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to bring education to the deaf children of Hartford, Connecticut. As a result of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet’s and Laurent Clerc’s...
