Make Conferences And Lectures Easier for the Hard of Hearing

A blogpost with a quick animation sharing some helpful hints for conference speakers and teachers. Because you never know if someone in your audience may be hearing-impaired.  

Conferences as I hear them

Signed Theatre Performances

Signed Culture:

Supporting BSL access to the Arts

Did you know there's an organisation dedicated to signed performances of cultural events?  It's called Signed Culture.  (The organisation previously existed as SPIT, which stood for Signed Performances in Theatre.  So if you find references to the old name or the acronym, then it's actually the same people.)  
Their website: https://www.signedculture.org.uk/

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.

Do You Love Films? LOVEFiLM Subtitle Petition for Hearing-Impaired Film-Lovers

If you can't hear a film, and you don't know what they're saying - what's the point?

 

There is a petition asking LOVEFiLM, the major on-demand and DVD rental company, to include subtitles on all their new releases.  You'll find it at Change.org/lovefilmsubtitles - let's hope it encourages LOVEFiLM to consider the 10m people in the UK with hearing loss, and make it clear, at the outset, whether content is subtitled or not. 

If you are interested in services for hearing-impaired people, why not also save www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk to you favourites?

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

Supporting the deaf and hearing impaired

Whittaker recently discovered that the Scottish Council on Deafness films the key SCoD news in BSL (British Sign Language), and uploads it to YouTube. Since the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland aims to work closely with deaf students, this link might be useful to the deaf and hearing impaired student community. 

Here's the link:- http://www.youtube.com/deafscotland

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!)