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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Blog: My evening at the Scottish Sensory Awards

Hearing Link volunteer Ann describes her evening at the Scottish Sensory Awards 2019.

Blog: A few ramblings about rambling…

Gill Pestell writes about her love of walking and rambling and offers tips for communicating and protecting your hearing aid or implant when you are out and about.

Ann Thallon tells NHS

The latter half of 2018 saw a lot going on in our lives which is why I’ve not been around. This week I checked Hearing Link’s site and was shocked to see me, with Sue on the news page framing fellow volunteer Ann Thallon – pictured right. (The poster wasn’t our idea – sorry folks!). […]

Blog: Motorway thoughts about Hearing Link

Hearing Link volunteer John Newton talks about how confidence-building LinkUps can help groups of people with hearing loss and their families.

Blog: Attitudes to hearing loss in the construction industry

A blog by Hearing Link volunteer, Bob Gowen I’d like to write about attitudes in the construction sector to people who are deaf. As an electrical contractor I have spent a lot of time working on building sites, and here are a few of my experiences. I gradually lost my hearing from my early forties. […]

Blog: Guinea pig for technology at audiology drop in

John Newton writes about volunteering at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Blog: Noise in Nottingham

Hearing Link volunteer John Newton writes about attending a Health and Welfare Week at Ratcliffe on Stour power station in Nottingham.