Lipreading badge & wristband offer! Head over to our online shop during September to snap up our latest deal. To mark Lipreading Awareness Week 2016, which starts on September 12th, we’re offering our lipreading badge and wristband for just £2, when bought together. These items offer discreet and visible ways to let others know you are a lipreader. Purchase yours until the end […]
Monthly film club – Glasgow The Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) has a monthly film club ‘Visible Cinema’ deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Visitors can enjoy captioned or subtitled screenings followed by a post-film discussion enhanced by Speech-to-Text service and BSL. It recently launched a new Facebook page where visitors can keep tabs on future screenings, news and other events. […]
Tinnitus information day The British Tinnitus Association (BTA) will host an information day in London on Saturday 12 November. The event, which has been funded by the National Lottery, is free of charge for the general public to attend. Guests will enjoy presentations from leading experts, exhibitors and complimentary therapy taster sessions. The aim of the day is to familiarise […]
Views sought on human rights Inclusion Scotland is gathering views from D/deaf and disabled people in a new survey. ‘Your Rights, Your Future Survey 2016’ aims to find out the experiences of human rights in relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (UNCRDP). The full list of rights can be accessed here. The survey aims to […]
Genes linked to age-related hearing loss A team of researchers have identified a gene associated with age-related hearing loss that could help identify people for early treatment, as well as lead to a possible prevention. The study, published in Nature Communications, may also help researchers develop advance screening programmes to identify the risk that developes age-related conditions many years before symptoms […]
Lipreading taster sessions announced The Association of Lipreading to Adults (ATLA) has announced free taster sessions for Lipreading Awareness Week next month. Sessions will be held in Dundee, Hertfordshire, London, Cornwall, Ayrshire, Bath, Exeter and Buckinghamshire. Head over to the ATLA website for further details of when these will take place. Lipreading Awareness Week takes place from 12th-16th September. […]
1 in 4 deaf workers quit due to discrimination A new survey has found that 1 in 4 deaf workers have quit their job due to discrimination. Carried out by job website Totaljobs, the research revealed that the majority of deaf or hard of hearing workers (52%) have experienced discrimination during their career. Discrimination was most likely to come from colleagues (62%), and then from management (53%). […]
