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.

  • Smartphones and Hearing Loss Webinar - your questions answered

    Alex.Barker | 28 May 2019
    We have had lots of fantastic feedback from our recent webinar "Smartphones and Hearing Loss".  This was a webinar jointly hosted by AbilityNet and Action for Hearing Loss and we'd like to thank Kevin Taylor, their Product Technologist for his expertise!Here are the questions which we didn't have...

  • Accessible spoken content hacks for hearing impaired students

    Jessica Doyle | 23 May 2019
    1 in 6 university students are hearing impaired. Spoken information is an integral part of learning, whether you’re being taught in a lecture, discussing in a seminar or collaborating in a group project, the barriers hearing impaired students face are clear to see.

  • Smartphone features for people with Hearing Loss

    Mark.Gaddes | 30 Apr 2019
    Over the last few years advances in technology have opened up communication options for people with hearing loss and deafness, particularly on smartphones.

  • Free webinar: Smartphone features for people with Hearing Loss

    Mark.Gaddes | 30 Apr 2019
    Please note: the date for this webinar has passed - access the webinar recording and slide deck for the presentation from the free expert resources section of our website.Over the last few years advances in technology have opened up communication options for people with hearing loss and deafness,...

  • Hearing Loss and Computing

    Anonymous | 27 Apr 2019
    This 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...

  • Hear, hear! Here's to the woman behind making Alexa inclusive

    Robin.Christopherson | 23 Apr 2019
    You may think that the one group left out of the smartspeakers revolution is those with a hearing impairment. Well, thanks to the smart work done by those at the Alexa for Everyone team at Amazon (and one woman in particular) that's not the case. Alexa really is for everyone.

  • Empathy and experience: meet our hearing-impaired IT Volunteer

    Jessica Doyle | 18 Apr 2019
    AbilityNet caught up with Iain Wilson, one of our volunteers in the midlands, to get a first-hand perspective on how his own hearing impairment informs his experience helping others as an AbilityNet ITCanHelp Volunteer. 

  • University of Surrey working on world's first British Sign Language translation Artificial Intelligence

    Robin.Christopherson | 12 Nov 2018
    Using machine learning to recognise the delicate nuances of British Sign Language (BSL) isn't easy, but now the University of Surrey is hard at work cracking the challenge with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

  • Wearable tech that interprets sign language

    Robin.Christopherson | 03 Oct 2016
    A team of biomedical engineers is using wearable tech to translate sign language into spoken or written text.

  • Hearing loss: My tech life

    Claudia.Cahalane | 26 Aug 2016
    Amelia Lewis, 25, is health and wellbeing advisor for DeafPLUS and a research assistant for the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. She tells us which technology is most important to her, including subtitles, her cochlear implant and a compilot.