Hearing Link Services blogs

Hearing Link Services is delighted to host a number of guest bloggers chronicling their unique and personal hearing loss journeys.

On this page there are posts from all our bloggers mixed together.

To read Tony Long’s blog about learning to adapt to his wife’s deafness, please visit this page.
To read Kirsteen Allison’s cochlear implant blog please visit this page.
To read Maggi Summerhill’s blog about family life and hearing loss please visit this page.

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How to protect your hearing during fireworks.

Firework displays are fun and enjoyable to watch, but it's important to protect your hearing. Read our top tips here.

Book Review: “Living with Hearing Loss and Deafness” by Samantha Baines

Our peer support volunteer Sylvia has written a review on Samantha Baines' latest book called "Living with Hearing Loss and Deafness". You can read it here!

Blog 4: Getting ready for launch

The fourth and final blog in our Helpful Hours series is written by our peer support volunteer Julia. She shares her personal journey on how she has prepared for the launch of our exciting new service!

Blog 3: Testing Helpful Hours in front of a live audience

Since the last blog, our volunteer team have been busy testing our Helpful Hour service with live and online audiences. Find out how they got on ...

Blog 2: How five golden nuggets became a Helpful Hour

Peer support volunteer Sylvia, who has lived experience of hearing loss, gives her insight into the creation of our Helpful Hours service.

Blog: Meet the volunteers behind our Helpful Hours

Helpful Hours has been designed by a group of peer support volunteers and we will be sharing their experience of developing this new services through a series of blogs, but first let's introduce you to the volunteers involved ...

Review: “Name me Lawand” by Edward Lovelace

Inspiring new film "Name Me Lawand" follows 5-year-old Lawand, who was born profoundly deaf in Iraqi Kurdistan, on his quest to find a world where there are deaf people like him.