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 hearing loss journey

Colin Ayres writes about his hearing journey and why he decided to become a Hearing Link Heldpesk volunteer.

Blog: How we set up successful lipreading classes

Our tiny group of trustees at Central England Lipreading Support Trust have set up 10 lipreading classes across Warwickshire and Birmingham.

Kiss Kiss

Tony blogs about small mirrors which Sue, who has hearing loss, can wear on her wrist when she is horse riding or on the back of Tony's motorbike.

Blog: My cochlear implant 6 years on

It is now 6 years since I was implanted, and a lot has changed since then. I am older (wiser??) and my daughter is now 10 and as tall as me!

Little town, big idea

We like Romsey. The small Hampshire market town can provide our basic needs – ‘Tea Cups’ tea shop (coffee and Cinnamon cake especially yumpshiss) and ‘Mole Valley’s’ country store where horse stuff and clothing can be found. What more does anyone need? Books. I prefer reading to TV and pop into the ‘Superbooks’ book shop […]

A visit to the dentist

Margaret Canning relates the story of her visit to the dentist and some of the challenges faced, but also reminds us that some positive strides in accessibility and understanding have been made in recent years.

Pleased to say I was wrong

I mentioned some time ago that Sue wrote ‘Deaf Rider’ across the back of her hi-viz riding vest and I was, frankly, a little unsure about that. Would some people (you know the type) regard that information as a means for making fun of her? I’m delighted to have been proved an idiot. It’s not […]