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.

  • Compensation for lack of BSL at Covid briefing

    Sarah Botterill | 28 Jul 2021
    A 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.

  • Apple Accessibility Announcements 2021

    Adam Tweed | 03 Jun 2021
    Apple updates include answering incoming calls on the Apple Watch by clenching your hand, control a workout with a pinch and move your wrist to move an on-screen cursor. 

  • Hearing Loss and Computing

    Anonymous | 30 Mar 2021
    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...

  • My watch told me I have a leak

    Adam Tweed | 09 Nov 2020
    Google brings environmental sound notifications to Wear OS allowing your watch to notify you if it hears something you might not have.

  • Music: Not Impossible for the hard of hearing

    Adam Tweed | 25 Feb 2020
    When 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...

  • Training content should be accessible to all

    Alex.Barker | 16 Jan 2020
    AbilityNet provides a selection of top tips for adjustments that can help create an accessible workplace.

  • Google's digital accessibility developments on show at TechSharePro 2019

    Annie Mannion | 08 Nov 2019
    Christopher Patnoe from Google chats with AbilityNet about how machine learning helps improve Google's accessibility prowess.

  • 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.