We are busy preparing for our ‘Working with deaf children and young people with additional or complex needs’ conference in London on 12th June 2024. The one-day event will take place at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). The NCVO’s offices are a short walk from Kings Cross and St Pancras Stations, and overlook the…
Sunday 3rd March is World Hearing Day! Led by the World Health Organisation (WHO), this global advocacy event calls for action to address hearing loss and related issues. Its aim is to raise awareness of hearing loss and promote hearing care across the world. The theme for 2024 is: ‘Changing mindsets. Let’s make ear and…
A much-loved hearing dog called Gordon has been nominated in this year’s Crufts Kennel Club Hero Dog awards! Gordon belongs to Elyana, 12, who is profoundly deaf. Gordon helps Elyana with practical tasks and also provides emotional support: ‘Gordon gives me a sense of comfort and just makes me happy,’ says Elyana. Her mum Silvie…
Sunday 25th February marks International Cochlear Implant Day (ICID), a global campaign to raise awareness of cochlear implants. A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device designed to produce hearing sensations in a person who has severe to profound hearing loss. The cochlear implant works by stimulating nerves within the person’s inner ear. ICID is…
Members of the Ewing Foundation team have supported students training to become Qualified Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People as part of their residential course at The University of Birmingham. Our Technology Consultants Abul, Jeremy and Mark, together with our Audiologist James, demonstrated how to use a variety of test boxes to check that…
Benefact Group’s have launched their Movement for Good for 2024, with gifts of of £1,000 and £5,000 to give away. Please can you help us to be one of the lucky charity winners by nominating us here. The link will take you to a nomination page that has already been pre-filled with our details. It’s…
Would you like to help deaf children and young people to learn and achieve at school? If so, the British Association of Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (BATOD) is offering five scholarships for teachers to train to become Qualified Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People (QToDs). The Con Powell Memorial Scholarships, named…
Wishing all of our Ewing Foundation family and friends a Happy New Year! Thank you so much for all your support over the last year. We look forward to working with you in 2024.
Get some knowledge with your porridge with our breakfast bite-size training! Following the success of our events last autumn, our team of Education Advisors are pleased to announce four more dates to help you get the New Year off to a great start. Each online session includes an introduction to the topic, time for discussion…
This December, Benefact Group’s Movement for Good is giving away a festive £1,000 to ten charities every day over their ’12 Days of Christmas’ campaign. Nominations are open until 17th December 2023, so please can you help Ewing Foundation to be one of the lucky charities this Christmas by nominating us here. The link will…