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Charlie Swinbourne: BBC News articles oversimplified teenagers choice
In The Limping Chicken’s debut post, editor Charlie Swinbourne argues that two recent BBC News articles about the teenagers featured in Deaf Teens: Hearing World oversimplified the audiological choices...
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Martine Monksfield: My batteries went flat at a wedding
Last weekend, the husband and I got ourselves dolled up for a wedding reception, the first wedding we’ve been to since our own special day. It was nice going as a Mr and Mrs officially! The reception...
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William Mager: Starting a journey of known unknowns
Donald Rumsfeld once said: There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don’t know. But there are also...
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William Mager: Billy 2.0 – Failing Ugly
So, I’ve had the operation, and I feel pretty good, considering. I’m trying to stick to my policy of full disclosure as much as possible without dissembling or rationalising. Especially important in...
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William Mager: Billy 2.0 – One week after the operation
A week after my operation I went back to the hospital. They took the dressings off, did an X-ray and told me I was allowed to wash all the matted blood and dried gunk out of my hair at last. They’ve...
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Deaf News: Eastenders star describes “hurt” she felt after being told...
Many deaf people cringed at the moment in the BBC’s documentary earlier this year about Eastenders star Rita Simons and her deaf daughter, when the star was told by a deaf woman that giving her...
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William Mager: Billy 2.0 – Activate!
A month since the operation, and I feel fine. There is however one unfortunate side effect which I need to share with you. I can’t blow my nose properly. If I sneeze with my mouth closed, or blow my...
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John Cradden: Why Rita Simons shouldn’t be criticised for wanting her child...
You may have read the story a few weeks ago about the EastEnders actress, Rita Simons, who wants her deaf six-year-old daughter, Maiya, to hear better by having an operation to get a cochlear implant....
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Callum Fox: Walking the line between the hearing and deaf worlds
My name is Callum Fox. I intend to write about my experiences as a cochlear implant user and what life has been like over the 17 years since I was first implanted in 1995. I was born on July 14, 1990...
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William Mager: Billy 2.0 – Two steps forward, one back
I’ve been switched on for a month now. It’s been a really steep learning curve, and after two tuning sessions I’m starting to feel like I’m getting close to the potential of the technology itself. I...
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Callum Fox: Crunch meeting with my audiologist. Will I get a new CI?
It’s that time of the year again. I’ll be making my way to Stanley Primary Care Centre in County Durham for my annual appointment with an audiologist. It’s something I go through every year, ever since...
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William Mager: Billy 2.0 – Getting my new audiogram
The above is an audiogram. Most deaf people have seen one of these before, but if you’re like me, you won’t have bothered to find out what they mean, other than ‘You are deaf. You are very, very, very...
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Callum Fox: Meeting my audiologist – the post-mortem
I prepared myself. I had a little book of questions. I strode into the office confidently, ready to give my audiologist a grilling. It didn’t quite turn out that way. I wrote about my issues in my last...
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Callum Fox: The Sound of Music
Music. It’s everywhere. Our lives are filled with the sweet sound of music, no matter where we go. Whether it be the latest pop sensation or the classical music of years gone by, our lives are enriched...
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Callum Fox: Navigating the jungle (and how audiologists are only interested...
As some of you may have read, I went to the audiologist for a routine checkup and ended up asking many, many questions. Because I asked, I ended up hearing some surprising stuff. Most of the...
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Shock cochlear implant picture: Interview with artist
A few weeks ago a controversial picture by Artist Daniel Winship appeared online. It was controversial because it portrayed a child receiving a cochlear implant while wide-awake and screaming as a...
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On BBC Three tonight: Taliban schoolgirl victim given cochlear implant
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban last October and then treated for her in juries in the UK, will feature in a BBC Three documentary tonight. Malala was shot by...
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Deaf News: Cochlear implants to show strongest growth in £5.5 billion hearing...
Cochlear implant sales will show the strongest growth in the worldwide hearing devices market which is predicted to be worth £5.5 billion by 2018. Companies like Medel and Advanced Bionics are expected...
View ArticleDeaf News: The Ear Foundation call for more cochlear implants for deaf adults
Hearing implant charity The Ear Foundation is calling for an expansion in the use of cochlear implants for deaf adults. In a report released at a recent conference in London last week, the case for...
View ArticleEmily Howlett: Everybody’s talking about giving my baby a cochlear implant…...
My life as a deaf person has been filled with a lot of noise (pun intended, but still terrible) about cochlear implants. I was born around the same time that the technology was starting to really...
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