For professional help and advice on tinnitus, or advice on selecting the appropriate Hearing Aid or Digital Hearing Aid , Hearing /Induction Loop, looking for an Audiologist, Hearing Test, or if you require any other information, please telephone  free: 0800 034 0294  or e-mail: info@mouseability.co.uk

WELCOME TO THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING DIVISION OF MOUSEABILITY

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Information: 

Hearing is one of the most vital,but also most negleted senses.Did you know that nearly 9 million adults in the UK have a hearing problem? Yet over 3 million have not yet sought assistance in the form of a hearing aid and could be enjoying a better quality of life with improved hearing today!

Hearing loss happens gradually and it can take years to even realise and admit to yourself that you have a problem.

The Hearing Company is part of the Scriven's Group,which is the UK's largest high street hearing care retailer.

For an individual assessment and personal advice we recommend a consultation with their hearing care professionals.

The Hearing Company also conduct home visits,so if you would like a hearing test in the comfort of your own home,or you would like to book an appointment in one of their retail outlets, please Freephone 0800 034 0294  or "visit" their website   www.thehearingcompany.co.uk

for general information on hearing aids, please see below

Information on Hearing Aids:

Analogue and Digital - The Difference: Hearing Aids are described as analogue or digital,depending on the technology they use to process sound. Digital hearing aids are the newest kind of hearing aid. In fact analogue technology is gradually being phased out. However, body-worn aids and some bone conduction types are analogue. Your audiologist or hearing aid dispenser will advise you on the most suitable type for you.

How do Analogue Hearing Aids Work?

Analogue hearing aids have a microphone that picks up sound and converts the sound into small electrical signals. These signals vary according to the pattern of the sound. The signals are then amplified and fed to the earphone on the hearing aid so you can hear them.

Most of the better analogue hearing aids use "automatic gain control." This amplifies quiet sounds until they are loud enough to be heard, but gives less amplification to sounds that are already loud,so you're protected against uncomfortably loud sound levels.

It is important to note that analogue hearing aids don't have all the features that come with advanced digital aids and can't usually be set to suit your individual hearing loss very precisely.

How do Digital Hearing Aids Work?

Digital hearing aids work in a different way.They take a signal from the microphone and convert it into "bits"of data - numbers that can be manipulated by a tiny computer in the hearing aid. This makes it possible to tailor and process sounds very precisely,in ways that are impossible with analogue aids.

The better digital aids can be very finely adjusted to suit your individual needs.You may be able to switch between different settings suitable for different listening conditions. Many digital hearing aids even adjust themselves automatically to suit different sound environments.

How Long Will You Wait For Your Digital Aid?

Before the NHS began modernising its hearing aid services in 2002,it offered only analogue aids - outdated compared with the digital aids only available from the private sector.

Hearing Concern carried out a survey to establish how long it took to get a new digital hearing aid.

On average those who choose the NHS wait 41 weeks to see a specialist for the first time and a further 21 weeks before receiving a hearing aid - a total of 62 weeks!

For more informaton on hearing aids and to find an audiologist or hearing aid dispenser that we recommend, please Freephone 0800 034 0294 or search our directory.

Fire Alarms for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

We are now recommending a company who sell a product called "Deafgard" 

Deafgard is the safe,legal and cost- effective solution for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people who are in danger of not hearing the hotel fire alarm.

We consider that fire alarms for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people are of utmost importance.

If you would like more information on all equipment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, including fire alarms, i.e fire alarms for deaf, please telephone Freephone 0800 034 0294 or "visit" www.firecoltd.com

Providing Access to Communication in English for Deaf People:

• Your rights to communication support under the DDA.

The majority of deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people in the United Kingdom have English as their first or preferred language. In order to be able to participate in situations such as doctor's appointments, education, courts and tribunals, you may need one or more forms of appropriate communication support.

However, are you aware that you are entitled to have communication support provided? Even when communication support is requested, service providers often either refuse to provide it or offer the wrong type of support.

Types of communication support. 

• Verbatim speech-to-text reporters use a phonetic keyboard to provide a real-time transcript of the meeting on a computer monitor or projected onto a screen.
• Electronic note takers type using a conventional keyboard. They condense what is being said into notes for the deaf person to read on screen or in Braille.
• Manual note takers take notes in settings such as education and meetings for the deaf person to read at the time or later.
• Lipspeakers silently reproduce the shape of words, rhythm and stress to make lipreading easier.
• Deafblind manual interpreters spell words into a deafblind person's hand using the deafblind manual alphabet or the block alphabet.
• Cued Speech transliterators use lip patterns together with eight handshapes in four positions near the mouth, to give a visual representation of spoken language, sound-for sound.

 Are You Profoundly Deaf?

The objective of MouseAbility is to influence society and in particular businesses and help them become more aware about the Deaf Community and Deaf culture. 

For specific services or products e.g. Accountants, solicitors, interpreters, or equipment for deaf (deaf products and deaf equipment) please search our Directory.

Are You Hard of Hearing?

MouseAbility recognises that many Hard of Hearing people do not consider themselves to be part of the Deaf World and in many cases may only have a mild hearing loss.

This section provides online information for Hard of Hearing people with links to a wide range of specialist companies who provide hearing equipment.

Whatever type of advice, service or product you are seeking you will find it here. e.g. amplifiers,textphones, door bells, hearing aids, digital hearing aids, infrared systems, loops, pagers, smoke alarms,fire alarms for the hard of hearing,fire alarms for the deaf, text phones or ancilliary products, please search our Directory for all your hearing products and hearing equipment requirements. 

We also have a network of Hearing Aid Audiologists, who can help with ringing in the ears, or noises in the ear.

This is commonly known as tinnitus. For information on tinnitus or any other hearing problems please Freephone 0800 034 0294

Recommended Opticians or Recommended Audiologists in the uk.

If you are looking for a recommended optician in London, an optician in manchester, an optician in Birmingham, or for that matter an optician anywhere in the UK, please search our directory.

Specsavers also have a Hearcare Division, where you will be able to find recommended Hearing Aid audiologists throughout the UK.

In many Specsavers branches, for both the Opticians and Hearcare divisions, you will find wheelchair access, hearing loops for the hard of hearing and facilities for the hearing impaired or blind and partially sighted.

It is important to contact the store first, to ensure that the relevent disability and mobility service is available.

So, if you have an eyesight problem and perhaps would like an eye test, or if you consider you have a hearing problem and would like a free hearing test, or perhaps you are just looking for a new pair of glasses,contact lenses, or a new digital hearing aid, to be directed to a recommended optician or a recommended hearing aid audiologist, please search our directory.

e.g. type in: optician middx, uk optician, uk opticians, opticians uk,optician middlesex,optician hertfordshire, optician bucks, optician london, optician surrey, eye test london, eye test liverpool, eye test warwickshire, eye test Newcastle etc etc.

or: hearing test london, hearing test birmingham, hearing aid berks, hearing aids UK,hearing aid supplier uk, audiologist london, audiologist uk, hearing aid dorset, audiologists, audiologist in the uk, or simply "hearing aid" 

Hearing Advice 

Hearing Aid Audiologists: 

Our resident hearing aid audiologist Ian Croft R.H.A.D, F.S.H.A.A. answers your questions.  http://www.clickhear.org/hear_advice.htm    for advice on hearing loss issues.

Please search our directory for a comprehensive list of hearing aid audiologists and hearing equipment, including hearing aids.

some examples of what you could type in to our search box:

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For a comprehensive list of all our disability links and in particular The Deaf and Hard of Hearing please go to our links page 

 Examples of the services Mouseability Can Offer and Recommend:

FREE HEARING TESTS:  TINNITUS ADVICE: text phones :HEARING LOOP SYSTEMS:  FIRE ALARMS FOR DEAF:  FIRE ALARMS FOR HARD OF HEARING: HEARING EQUIPMENT:  HEARING PROTECTORS: RECOMMENDED AUDIOLOGISTS: METHODS TO REMOVE EAR WAX:  RECOMMENDED EAR DROPS: RECOMMENDED HEARING AIDS:  PRODUCTS AND EQUIPMENT FOR DEAF PEOPLE

For example you can type in to our search box words such as:  ear drops, ear drops uk,company for ear drops, recommended ear drops, cerumol ear drops, wax in ears,  problems with ear wax, wax in ear solutions, methods to remove ear wax, recommended ear drop company uk, ear drop company, hearing aid information, digital hearing aid information, digital hearing aids, hearing aid, hearing loop, induction loop, equipment for deaf, deaf equipment,hearing protectors, equipment for hard of hearing people, products for deaf, products for hard of hearing, hearing test, hearing tests, hearing test at home, hearing test in the home, audiologist,audiologist uk, audiologists, home visits for hearing test, etc etc.

Hearing Protectors for Musicians 

hearing protectors, hearing protection systems, hearing protection products, hearing protection services, ear plugs, ear protection products,in the ear monitors.

All the above products and sevices are particularly vital for musicians.

hearing protectors for musicians, ear plugs for musicians,ear protectors and generally ear protection products are certainly products that musicians should consider.

SPECIAL HELP LINE:     Freephone  0800 034 0294   or e-mail: info@mouseability.co.uk

TEXT PHONES, TEXTPHONES, TEXT PHONES FOR DEAF, TEXTPHONES FOR DEAF

HEARING AIDS, DIGITAL HEARING AIDS

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