Links - General

Organisations

These provide information, services including help lines, training and news. Some are also involved in campaigning. Their information and fact sheet sections are well worth browsing.

• Royal National Institute for the Deaf also has a shop with a range of equipment to aid hearing in different situations. Some can be VAT-free.

• Hearing Concern

• Royal Association for Deaf People

• British Deaf Association

• Defeating Deafness

• Deaf Professionals Network

• Support4doctors aims to put doctors and their families in touch with a range of organisations who can help. Links to organisations dealing with career, health and financial issues. A website run by the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.

• British Society for Mental Health and Deafness (BSMHD) is the society for the promotion of the positive mental health of deaf people in Britain.

• SIGN - The National Society for Mental Health & Deafness. Promoting Deaf wellness and independent living.

• Association of Lipspeakers - A lipspeaker is a hearing person trained to repeat a speaker's message to lipreaders accurately, without using their voice. A lipspeaker may be employed to aid communication between lipreaders and hearing people in a range of situations such as education and training, conferences and meetings, job interviews.

• BAHA Users Support - Mutual support for baha users, and information about living with bahas (Bone Anchored Hearing Aids)

Hearing loss

These sites, as well as the organisations listed above, have information about the ear, hearing loss and ear disorders, audiograms and hearing aids.

• Audiology Awareness Campaign

• American Academy of Audiology

  • Click here for pictures and information about the different types of hearing aids.

• www.earinfo.com

• Atlantic Coast Ear Specialists

  • This glossary includes a diagram of where speech sounds fall on an audiogram.

Shops

• RNID

• Connevans

• Forest Books