Overall Winner
John Sinclair, Edinburgh: roarrrrrrrrr!
Runners up
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Alan Cleaver, Whitehaven: splashing & starlings
Ally, Berkshire: sloshslishslosh
Andrew Prout, Brighton: crackle & yawn
Bob Small, Stogursey: splash!
Carol Mullinix, Frederick, Maryland: giggle
Cas, London: oooooo_ahhhhhh
Catherine Sefi, London: wind_in_the_sails
Claire Stubbs, Tenby: wind_and_water
Dan Henzell, Leeds: fiiizzzz!!!!!, pshhhhh, pit-a-pat & morning_thaw
David Dunnico, Manchester: partner’s_voice
Emma Brown, Leeds: melting_snow & purrrrrrrrrrrrr
Graham Cannell, […] Read more...
Imagine a silent world
The sounds you love
One in two of us will experience deafness and hearing loss at some point. So why risk losing the sounds you love?
Through our campaigns RNID works to raise awareness of the risks we take with our hearing, and offers advice on how to avoid them - such as turning the volume down when listening to music.
We also provide a simple telephone hearing check and fund vital research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of hearing loss.
Read more about the issues on our discussions boards and if you want to help us please donate now.
Recent blog entries and current discussions
Competition Winner and Runners up
“Do you hear the birds singing?”
Jemima says:
I used to work in a school with hard of hearing children. We had one girl who came from a family of five. Both her parents were profoundly deaf, as she was. She had a younger brother who was severely deaf and an older sister who was the only hearing member of the family.
One […] Read more...
Mandy’s story
Mandy’s world was shattered when she woke one morning, to discover she had lost her hearing. Her doctors told her that she had developed a tumour which had permanently affected her hearing, adding to her trauma. Although the tumour responded well to radiotherapy, her hearing loss was to pose a longer term issue.
Mandy had always […] Read more...
Silence is golden sometimes!
Steve says:
I was sitting at my computer desk recently when I felt a tiny vibration through the keyboard. Odd, I thought, the washing machine isn’t on (it’s directly below me in the kitchen) why is the desk vibrating? But the thought vanished from my head as I grappled with a problem on the PC. Lunch […] Read more...
I can’t tell where noises come from
Francis shares her story:
I am 64 years old and have had ear problems since I was very young. An operation on my right ear at 14 left me slightly deaf. And at 16, people kept calling me a snob because I ignored them in the street.
I realised I had a problem, went for a hearing […] Read more...
What sound would you miss the least?
No tap water dripping!
No boiler churning noises!
No sirens screaming down the street!
No dogs and cats fighting!
No beeps from my computer alerting me that there is a message waiting!
There are some sounds that you might not miss hearing – what would yours be? Read more...
Communication tips
Angela tells us about her experiences of having a hearing loss:
After many years of swimming, I have had a problem with the hearing in one of my ears. At the moment it is getting gradually better, but I thought I would share one of the main experiences associated with the hearing loss.
I have found that […] Read more...
“Loud jet engines and sports cars…”
Mike’s story:
There is a history of deafness in my family, so it was no surprise that some form of deafness affected me, my left ear being the one affected. I put some of it down to loud jet engines and sports cars without silencers. I was supplied with an analogue aid which helped.
Four years ago, […] Read more...
We subtitle Big Ben!
Earlier this week, we subtitled Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus. But last night we went one step further and subtitled Big Ben! Imagine if you couldn’t hear the bing bong of Big Ben’s chimes? We hope that everyone who saw Big Ben subtitled last night, took just one minute to imagine a world without sound.
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John’s stepmother steps in!
John, who served in the Royal Navy, says his life has changed entirely since he started wearing a hearing aid. But he only started wearing one due to his stepmother:
‘The world changed when my stepmother asked me one of the most important questions of my life:
“John, what affect does your hearing loss have on the […] Read more...
