How to be Deaf-Aware - advice from Action on Hearing Loss

We were recently sent this useful reminder about how best to communicate with someone who is deaf or hearing-impaired.  Click here.

Don't Tell Your Mum (You've Bought Hearing Protection Without Being Reminded!)

Musicians these days take care of their hearing - simple as that.  Find out more on the Action on Hearing Loss website.  HERE.

It's cool to look after your lugs!

A survey for music lovers/performers with hearing aids

Help a research study at the University of Cambridge - if you wear hearing aids, could you spend 5 minutes answering this questionnaire, please?

Listening to Music Through Hearing Aids

Loud, loud, LOUD MUSIC

Music loud?  Fingers in your ears? 

Heed this or you might need hearing-aids in them later! 

Action on Hearing Loss has been running a campaign to raise awareness of the damage that loud music can do to our hearing.

Here's their Storify page about the campaign.

(Do you look forward to plugging your iPod into your hearing aids ..?  Turn the volume down!)

Whittaker Live helps a Good Cause - RNID

This isn't music information - it's helping other folk hear music.


Yesterday morning, 'Whittaker' did a sponsored swim of 100 lengths  to raise money for RNID's Centenary Appeal.  If you're a musician, you'll appreciate the value of research into hearing loss.


Please consider supporting this sponsored swim - further information (and 'Whittaker' revealed) here.

• http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/ (a new website for the renamed RNID)

RNID interviews composer Lloyd Coleman at Royal Academy of Music

Read about an 18-year old musician, conductor and composer who has defied hearing loss to pursue his musical ambitions.

RNID Action on Hearing Loss - Lloyd Coleman.

RNID Action on Hearing Loss - homepage.