Expert Resources: hearing impairment
These are the items that relate to hearing impairment found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.
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Annie Mannion | 24 Apr 2024Deaf Awareness Week is coming up in May. This selection of digital solutions can make a difference to people who are d/Deaf or have hearing loss or hearing impairments.
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Alex.Barker | 14 Mar 2024This factsheet gives information about how computers, tablets and smartphones can be used to enhance listening for people with some degree of hearing loss. It does not aim to be comprehensive but provides a useful introduction to some of the key assistive technology available. Some 11 million...
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Annie Mannion | 29 Nov 2022In AbilityNet's free webinar on Tuesday 6 December, we discovered how tech can help d/Deaf people and those who have experienced hearing loss.
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Robin Christopherson | 18 Feb 2022The new EarGo 6 uses smart technology to improve understanding when someone’s voice is muffled by a mask.
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Claudia.Cahalane | 02 Feb 2022There are multiple communication options used by people who are D/deaf or who have hearing loss. And, in the last five years, advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have opened further options. In this blog, we explore some of the latest tech options for communication, leisure and education...
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Sarah Botterill | 28 Jul 2021A deaf woman has won a high court ruling against the UK government over the lack of British Sign Language interpreting at official Coronavirus briefings in England.
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Adam Tweed | 09 Nov 2020Google brings environmental sound notifications to Wear OS allowing your watch to notify you if it hears something you might not have.
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Adam Tweed | 25 Feb 2020When Mick Ebeling of Not Impossible Labs considered the way D/deaf and hard of hearing people experience music; the monotonous thump of the subwoofer, he thought it was absurd. Working with jazz musician and songwriter Mandy Harvey who lost her hearing at University, Not Impossible Labs created...
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Alex.Barker | 16 Jan 2020AbilityNet provides a selection of top tips for adjustments that can help create an accessible workplace.
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Annie Mannion | 08 Nov 2019Christopher Patnoe from Google chats with AbilityNet about how machine learning helps improve Google's accessibility prowess.
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