Lipreading tutor vacancy in Leicestershire The Leslie Edwards Trust is seeking a lipreading tutor urgently for the Leicestershire area – primarily for daytime teaching. Although our tutors are freelance and free to seek out additional opportunities, we aim to have long term relationships where we find the funding to support lipreading classes in Leicestershire. We should be glad to hear […]
Belfast Self Management Programme ends on a high note This past June saw the completion of the third and final day of our latest Self Management Programme in Northern Ireland with participants leaving on high note. Personal stories were recounted, valuable advice was shared and a sense of camaraderie was fostered. Taking place as three single day sessions over three months, our Belfast programme was facilitated […]
Survey on hearing aid break down experiences We have been asked by Emma, a deaf health psychology masters student at Liverpool John Moores University, to let our followers know of a research project that she is conducting. Emma is investigating the experiences of hearing aid users when their hearing aids break down and has produced a short online survey to gather responses. […]
Had a rather nice Easter despite my bank We hadn’t seen my stepdaughter for almost a year so we missed her at Christmas and her birthday had just past. Experience has taught us not to buy her gifts; much safer to let her choose something herself. We decided on a trip to Carmarthen on her last day and all piled into the car. […]
Staying active in sport with hearing loss Hearing Link volunteer Shona has written a lovely blog for the English Federation of Disability Sport on her decision to take up cycling to get herself back “out there” after experiencing social isolation due to her hearing loss. Shona writes of her increasing confidence leading to her taking up running and even tackling a cycling velodrome! […]
Another One Bites the Dust Haven’t been online for a while due to laptop having a severe infection and slowing to pace that was unusable. Killed the virus, only ran slower and locked up. So… this is the first thing I’ve typed on our new, sparkly, crispy clean laptop. Won’t last. I’m a pipe smoker who insists that, just as […]
Practice your lipreading skills online Stories for Lipreading is a newly launched free website offering a variety of video clips of short stories being read aloud into camera by trained lip reading teachers.
