Dear all, Saturday 31 July, 12:00 Join a BSL Interpreted and Lipspeaking Guided Tour of the Great Kitchen at Windsor Castle. Tickets cost: Adult £20.50 Over...
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hardofhearinguk@...
Jul 7, 2010 6:28 pm
Reminder from: hardofhearinguk Yahoo! Group http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/hardofhearinguk/cal Red Lion Pub meet up Monday 12 July 2010 18:30 - 22:30 (This...
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hardofhearinguk@...
Jul 11, 2010 6:31 pm
Reminder from: hardofhearinguk Yahoo! Group http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/hardofhearinguk/cal Red Lion Pub meet up Monday 12 July 2010 18:30 - 22:30 (This...
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hohsaffron
Jul 12, 2010 9:44 pm
Hello, Did anyone watch the first part of The Silence tonight? What did you make of it? I know this is only the first part, but I felt that it gave the...
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Cherry Cullen
cherry13cullen
Jul 12, 2010 11:29 pm
I did watch it and will watch the rest of the episodes. It was hard to keep track of when she had her processor on or not, she seemed to take it off quite a...
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karen denis
karendenis...
Jul 13, 2010 6:26 pm
I watched it too, but thought it gave hearing parents an unrealistic picture of what to expect speech wise from a Cochlear Implant. It says in the write up...
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Cherry Cullen
cherry13cullen
Jul 13, 2010 7:07 pm
She might have become deaf "post lingually" in other words learnt to speak before losing hearing. Like me. I have very normal speech despite being horribly...
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Lidia Best
lidiasmolare...
Jul 13, 2010 7:27 pm
I have implant and a very perfect speech. I lost part of hearing at the age of 12 and just recently after I was 40 years old. Not all deaf are the ones without...
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karen denis
karendenis...
Jul 13, 2010 8:01 pm
No, I agree with you. I don't mean that all Deaf have poor speech - of course not.. What I meant was for parents who don't know anything about cochlear ...
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Olukayode Ajala
mrkstuk
Jul 13, 2010 10:34 pm
i camre back from work, ate food watched news, washed plates and cmin back to tv saw the implants and buzing subtitles, imeditely knew a deaf charcter yes its...
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Olukayode Ajala
mrkstuk
Jul 13, 2010 11:58 pm
asgnof deafness for those havin normal speech beforeonset is talikn loder tahn normal, wife stil yet tograsp this even though its 6yrs ... From: Cherry Cullen...
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andrew arthur
kernowandy
Jul 14, 2010 7:34 am
I am always getting into trouble for "shouting"; because I can't hear my own voice. Hearing people often take advantage of that and tell me to be quiet and ...
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Fintan Gaughan
tpotty
Jul 14, 2010 12:22 pm
I find it insulting for anyone to think that to obtain CI you get better hearing and better speach! What a load of claptrap , some do some don't how ever deaf...
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Lidia Best
lidiasmolare...
Jul 14, 2010 12:43 pm
Now, hold on! That is an insult to me, as I do have better hearing with CI than HA. I am deafened suddenly after using HA for most of my life. I know friends,...
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Cherry Cullen
cherry13cullen
Jul 14, 2010 6:51 pm
Ha Ha, my husband of 38 years has absolutely no idea how to communicate with the deaf! So don’t give up. Hearing concern produced a very nice leaflet which...
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Olukayode Ajala
mrkstuk
Jul 14, 2010 10:13 pm
yes , remember her deaf friend whoshe went to meeet in bristol- teling why she went through the rigour of implants and not aceeptin who she is- another aspect...
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Olukayode Ajala
mrkstuk
Jul 14, 2010 10:14 pm
pple dont know, disability is still a big minefield of misconceptions ... From: Fintan Gaughan <fgaughan@...> Subject: Re: [Hard of Hearing UK] The...
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Olukayode Ajala
mrkstuk
Jul 14, 2010 11:34 pm
weall have to understand each other, ithink hering is most diverse ofvariousdisabities coz its difcultsayin everyone is atsame level, some can both speak and...
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Charlie Swinbourne
cswinbourne
Jul 15, 2010 9:59 am
Hi all, The Fingerspellers Facebook group now has over 600 members, and the series has been clocking up thousands of views online! You can now see the first ...
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iain_connell@...
iain_connell...
Jul 15, 2010 11:11 am
Hi all It seems that there is quite a degree of disagreement about this series(which I have not yet seen but will now, including previous episodes), in...
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Lidia Best
lidiasmolare...
Jul 15, 2010 11:34 am
Ian, I will be writing something as a representative of HOH and will also say on behalf of the CI. Lidia ... From: iain_connell@... To:...
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martyn smith
aidmenot
Jul 15, 2010 12:50 pm
Apparently - now I would be interested to read comments on this! - Ms Barr wears hearing aids normally, but had to wear a cochlear implant for this programme,...
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Charlie Swinbourne
cswinbourne
Jul 16, 2010 7:15 pm
Hi all, With the closure of yet another deaf school (Ovingdean) I thought I'd write about what deaf schools mean to deaf people - and how deaf schools...
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hohsaffron
Jul 17, 2010 8:07 am
... "Also people keep talking to her when she is not listening. They make no attempt to face her and speak clearly. They don't attract her attention before...
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andrew arthur
kernowandy
Jul 17, 2010 10:02 am
Some links that might be interesting : http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/07_july/07/silence5.shtml This is by Cathy Heffernan : ...
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andrew arthur
kernowandy
Jul 17, 2010 3:52 pm
Well I did try to reply to your piece with some criticism of MHGS but unfortunately the BBC don't want to talk about that. The reason why old time Mary Hares...
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andrew arthur
kernowandy
Jul 18, 2010 7:33 am
The BBC have now rejected my message so I am posting it here. With all the stories of people being abused in Catholic institutions, I can tell a story of abuse...
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cswinbourne
Jul 19, 2010 10:01 am
Hi Andrew, Thanks for including your post here - I saw that your post had been removed and wondered what you'd written so it's good to be able to read it. I...
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andrew arthur
kernowandy
Jul 19, 2010 11:05 am
What I am explaining is WHY we all stuck together. I think it's fair to say that there was a "them and us" attitude at the school at the time. I am told that...
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Olukayode Ajala
mrkstuk
Jul 19, 2010 12:57 pm
i find all this quite enlightening, however another thing to task our minds is- how do we inovatively get wider non disabled world to fully undertsand our...
