#Unherd voices how to#

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Interviews of on average 90 minutes were recorded on digital recorders and the resulting audio files (and verbatim transcripts from the Speech To Text Reporters) have been archived and made publicly accessible at the British Library. To access the recording and transcripts online visit the British Library Sounds website (click on Subject>Hearing Loss>and select a name. Interviews took place at central locations around the UK and provided often isolated people with the opportunity to meet others with shared experiences and challenges. Working closely with the Oral History department in the Sound Archive at the British Library, Hearing Link identified and trained 16 deafened adults to interview over 65 deafened adults about life history topics including family background, early life, hearing loss diagnosis, relationships with medical professionals and the effect of hearing loss on employment, family relationships, education, access and awareness. The Heritage Lottery Fund provided funding for Hearing Link (formerly Hearing Concern LINK) to train volunteers to become interviewers of adults with APHL. APHL places considerable strain not only on the person with the hearing loss, but on all those living with the deafened person. For most people APHL is a catastrophic, alienating and disorientating life event. After growing up with hearing and developing speech and language, adults with APHL became profoundly or totally deaf in adult life, either suddenly and without warning or progressively over a number of weeks, months or years. Over 150,000 people in the UK live with the effects of APHL.

Matlock & District Hard of Hearing Clubĭuring 20, over 65 people recorded oral history interviews about their experience of Acquired Profound Hearing Loss (APHL).

HoHo (Hard of Hearing Organisation) (North Shields).

Folkestone & District Hard of Hearing Club.

Hearing loops frequently asked questions.Partners & family stories of hearing loss.

#Unherd voices how to#

How to communicate with someone with hearing loss.