Advice, support and information for hearing impaired younger people who are working or studying.
Hiype! is the only website in the UK for hearing impaired people who are working, studying now and are looking for some advice or support. Whether you consider yourself hearing impaired, hard of hearing, deaf or deafened the main thing is that you won't be thinking about picking up your pension just yet.
Hearing Concern & LINK merge
Hearing Concern, a national organisation for hard of hearing people, and LINK, for people with acquired profound hearing loss (APHL), have merged.
After almost a year of consultation and preparation the two charities come together at the official launch during the LINK convention in London on 27th September.
Visit their new website at www.hearingconcernlink.org
Updated 30.09.08
Deaf people calling for better telephone access
The Government was accused today of letting down deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens by failing to enable them to have access to modernised, fairly-priced telecom services suited to their needs.
While an everyday part of hearing people’s lives since the 1960s, poor access to the telephone severely affects the lives and life chances of deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Updated 06.03.08
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funny old life
This blog is about living with a hearing loss in London (UK), bringing up various issues surrounding hearing loss.
just smudge
Hi, my name is Smudge, I’m a Hearing Dog living in London, England. I’m a cocker poo (cocker spaniel and poodle cross), a breed that’s great for people with allergies. Enjoy the read.
campaigns: captel
For over seventeen years, Teletec has brought the cutting edge in text communication technologies to people with hearing loss in the UK. Hearing Concern. is now campaigning for a 24 hour, 7 day and 365 day service at no cost to the user other than a standard telephone call cost.