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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Anonymous | 30 Mar 2021This 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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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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Alex.Barker | 28 May 2019We 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...
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Jessica Doyle | 23 May 20191 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.
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Mark.Gaddes | 30 Apr 2019Over the last few years advances in technology have opened up communication options for people with hearing loss and deafness, particularly on smartphones.
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Mark.Gaddes | 30 Apr 2019Please 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,...
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Robin Christopherson | 23 Apr 2019You 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.
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