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Hearing Loss and Deafness
Understand your own deafness
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What should I do if I have a hearing loss
I don’t think that I am deaf
Is it worth getting a hearing aid?
One hearing aid or two hearing aids?
Hopes and expectations about hearing aids
On your first or follow up visits to the hospital
Hearing Aids and hearing aid moulds
Digital and analogue hearing aids
General tips on using hearing aids
Lipreading
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Fingerspelling
Sign Language
Alternative methods of communication
Getting good environmental conditions for listening and lipreading
Leading the conversation in a tactful way
To avoid interrupting a speaker
Checking
Using badges and communication cards to let people know you have a hearing loss
Some ideas on easing some of the difficulties with other people
Own Voice
The Ear Symbol
Deaf Centres
Meniere’s Disease
Tinnitus
Loudness Recruitment and Hyperacusis
Relaxation
Acoustic neuroma
Otosclerosis
Usher Syndrome
Helpful tips for anybody who speaks to deaf people
Family and Visitors
Travel
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Meetings and lectures, etc
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Environmental Aids and Strategies
Introduction
Answering the door
The television and radio
Loop systems
Telephones
Finding whether the baby or an ill person is calling out
Alarm clocks
Hearing Dogs
Out of Doors
Asking and being asked directions (out of doors)
Where to stand/walk when chatting (out of doors)
Explanations (out of doors)
Hearing Aids (out of doors)
Getting used to hearing aids outdoors
Rain
To avoid being knocked down in the street
In the dark (out of doors)
Football matches
In the park
Activities (out of doors)
General (out of doors)
Miscellaneous
In your own kitchen
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Hairdressers and barbers
Doctors, clinics and waiting areas, etc.
Visiting or staying in hospital
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Banks, building societies and post-offices
Solicitors and courts
Rent Office
Department for Work and Pensions (Formerly DSS)
Social workers with deaf people
Disability Employment Advisers (DEAs)
Hobbies
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Bridge
Sport
Public swimming pools
Theatre
Cinema
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Auctioneers
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Church
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Deaf children
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Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Attendance Allowance (AA)
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