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.

  • 9 Useful apps for people who are D/deaf or have hearing loss

    Claudia.Cahalane | 09 Apr 2025
    There 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...

  • Hearing Loss and Computing

    Alex.Barker | 28 Jan 2025
    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...

  • 7 tech ideas to help people who are D/deaf or have hearing loss

    Annie Mannion | 24 Apr 2024
    Deaf 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.

  • SignHealth, Thoughtworks and AbilityNet share tips for d/Deaf people

    Annie Mannion | 29 Nov 2022
    In AbilityNet's free webinar on Tuesday 6 December, we discovered how tech can help d/Deaf people and those who have experienced hearing loss.

  • New hearing aid feature unmuffles voices of masked speakers

    Robin Christopherson | 18 Feb 2022
    The new EarGo 6 uses smart technology to improve understanding when someone’s voice is muffled by a mask.

  • 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.

  • 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.