About this site

Deafness-and-hearingaids.net is written by Steve Claridge. I started this website because I’ve found that a lot of other hearing aid and deafness related sites are overly technical - I want to talk about issues, give tips and hints and share thoughts in plain english without too much of the technical mumbo-jumbo. I also post the latest deaf/hard of hearing news from around the Internet.

About the author

I was diagnosed as being partially deaf when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Up until then I had perfect, or at least very good, hearing. It was after a short illness that my parents started to notice that I wasn’t hearing as well as I did before. They took me to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Aylesbury where I got fitted with some bulky NHS supplied behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids. When I was about 16 I went to a private hearing aid vendor and have worked my way through several pairs of in-the-ear (ITE) and in-the-canal (ITC) aids since then. Most recently, I replaced an old pair of Siemens analogue aids with a pair of Starkey Destinys from Specsavers.

I live near Oxford, UK, with my wife, daughter and dog. I am a Software Engineer by day and currently work for a large publisher of academic journals and ebooks.