Times of the Signs Signing on TV Those old enough to recall Jackanory (BBC story telling series for youngsters, 1965 – 1996) will have their favourite story tellers. The talents of Bernard Cribbins and Kenneth Williams always prompted me to pretend it was my young brother who wanted programme on, me being too old. Sue is enjoying Crackernory, the […]
Beowulf the Scourge of Hearing Loss? Hearing loss and sound sensitivity During education I had girlfriends, who had fathers, who had misgivings about me. Well, not just me, any lad who spent time with their daughters – which I now fully understand. However Margaret’s father, the classics master at the local public school, liked me not for of the purity of […]
Deaf characters in novels, again Colin Dexter and deaf character Nicholas Quinn In a previous blog I mentioned listening to a radio play of the Morse story, ‘The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn’. I was incensed at the discrimination and ill-will aimed at the eponymous Mr Quinn because of his deafness, by his colleagues. When I found out that the […]
Looking and Learning British Sign Language (BSL) for people with acquired hearing loss Week three of BSL and Sue’s not feeling so anxious or out of place. Not criticising tutor or classmates, it’s just that for some deaf people – more than hearing folk could imagine – entering a learning situation with 16 (hearing) strangers is extremely intimidating […]
Apple For The Teacher? British Sign Language (BSL) classes should be free for people with hearing loss It’s taken far too long, but Sue finally started a stage 1 British Sign Language (BSL) course last week. Ironically, after four years of failing to find a college which succeeded in running a course that was intended for deaf people, Sue’s […]
Dream a Little Dream (of Mama cass, not me) Hearing loss, tinnitus & dreaming As well as being beneficial to mental health, dreams have been the source for and subject of all varieties of art – they’ve also resulted in some outrageously harebrained ideas. Anyone whose spent time with animals must have wondered what they dream of; I’ve watched horses, dogs and cats display […]
One year on I can’t believe that just over a year ago I was getting my head drilled into! I’ve come so far since then, I can now hear the wind in the trees, I can enjoy music again, I can hear birds, I can hear familiar voices on a mobile phone (but strangely nothing on a landline) […]
