My Brother John

@Parent asking What hearing aids are available on the NHS? http://bit.ly/cPuHYM
Vicar’s wife plans skydive for National Deaf Children’s Society http://bit.ly/9UGipB
@Parent asking nursery placements http://bit.ly/9hC5xp
@Parent asking little update and ifo on CI needed http://bit.ly/bYHCCP
Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell reads to deaf children at family fun day in … http://bit.ly/cE0S6j
‘Extreme Makeover’: Salem http://bit.ly/aSACCT
Deaf students meet, make friends [...]

See the Tickle Monster and colour it in. http://bit.ly/9LSd3A
Remember, parliamentary candidates need your vote to win - you can persuade them to make deaf children matter. Sign… http://bit.ly/aoSJAV
Cool new iphone app - see http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/hearing-check/id362792472

Secondary school education for deaf children is a growing concern at the moment especially after finding this news on the NDCS web site.
“Government figures, published in May 2009 - by NDCS, show that deaf children’s GCSE results continue to lag behind those of all children, and may even be falling further behind.” Source: NDCS 2009. [...]

One of Derbyshire’s Brownie groups took part in deaf awareness activities last Monday as part of their weekly meeting. Author of the book My Brother John, Joanne Zellweger met with 20 Brownies who were given a talk about deaf awareness, took part in a deaf awareness quiz, were giving a lip reading exercise and listened [...]

I recently attended a Warren Estabrooks conference at St George’s Hospital in London about the use of auditory verbal therapy (AVT) , a “brand” of speech and langauge therapy for deaf children . AVT aims to help deaf children speak. To the outsider speech and language is a given- if you don’t have a deaf child you may not really [...]

Today’s Waterstone’s event at the Trafford Centre was a landmark event for My Brother John. Not only was the event a great success- author Joanne Zellweger was asked to read and sign the book within the hour long event to a mixed audience of deaf and hearing children. Members of the Watersones team said , “This was one of the [...]

We’ve all had those awkward ‘supermarket moments’ when your child wants something he or she can’t have! Or may be when you need to move on from playing in the park to get to home or even just putting their coat or shoes on! If your child is deaf and has a hearing aid or cochlear implant - what do you do?

We found this really useful to show  from the FDA Cochlear Implant Information

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/cochlear/implantpop.html It has comprehensive information on cochlear implants including a very good movie that shows how the ear works, how hearing loss happens, and how the device works.  Must see!

A really great article written by Penny Wark of the Times appeared today. It gives some insight into the issues faced by parents of a deaf child with a cochlear implant or hearing aid. Here is the link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5946309.ece
Enjoy!