Do you have handbag syndrome?
Shops are very noisy places, there are a lot of people around, everyone is talking, tills are ringing - there’s a lot of background noise and a lot of distractions. Many hard of hearing people finds shops difficult - it can be difficult to hear the person who is serving you. [...]

Manufacturer’s of digital hearingaids supply audiologists with computer software that allows them to change an aid’s settings. The audiologist can add or remove preset programmes and adjust various sound levels.
I think it would be really useful if us hearing aid wearers could have our own version of the software so that we could make modifications [...]

I visited my parents today. My Mum was telling me about how bad my Auntie’s hearing is these days. Turns out that she visited her GP about her hearing 2 years ago, was referred to the local hospital and was fitted with digital behind-the-ear hearing aids not long after. So, why is her hearing still [...]

I was doing some shopping in my local Boots last week and, because I had 15 minutes to spare, I decided to pop into the in-store David Ormerod Hearing Centre that to check out there service and prices.
No-one else was waiting or being seen by the assistant so I was shown straight in. I briefly [...]

J from Grumpyolddeafies is less than convinced by DeafEquipment’s Ear Gear range. She’s right, they do look uncannily like legwarmers. But, hey, legwarmers were pretty huge in the 1980s and they looked hideous too!
This does lead on to an important question though: Can hearing aids be cool?
It wasn’t so many years ago that glasses where [...]