A new video resource is now available to support managers, staff and volunteers who are using phone and video calls to deliver health, care and befriender services to older people, a high proportion of whom have hearing loss. The video by Ideas for Ears is highly practical and looks at problems caused for those not easily […]
Ideas for Ears has joined forces with the community group Forth Valley Hearing Access Forum to run the UK’s first-ever Hearing Access Awards. 12 worthy winners and six worst offenders were identified, each one representing great or poor experiences that people with hearing loss have had. They acknowledge individuals and organisations who have knocked down […]
It is now possible to find out how a new phone solution will sound to you personally. The new phone service Audacious, which will launch this summer, is inviting people to test out the Audacious experience by trying the ‘Audacious Sound Check‘. This will give an insight into how the sound will be processed to […]
Ideas for Ears is collaborating with researchers at University of Dundee on the development of a digital tool that will help to make group discussions more accessible to those with hearing loss.
Hearing access will be debated in the Scottish Parliament as part of a motion recognising World Hearing Day and Hearing Awareness Week (3-9 March). The debate will take place on Thursday 28 February at 12:45pm, straight after First Minister’s Questions. It was lodged by Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, and will be […]
Hearing Link was delighted to be invited along to the launch of new protocols for better access to meetings and events for people with hearing loss.
New protocols have been written up with the aim of making meetings and events more accessible and inclusive to people with hearing loss. These have evolved from survey work that identified that people with hearing loss are experiencing widespread and significant difficulties in hearing and following things, and that this is often not connected with […]
