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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Three tech innovations for hearing loss

    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.