Monday 1 – Sunday 7 May marked Deaf Awareness Week, the annual campaign to highlight the experiences of deaf people. To mark this year’s Deaf Awareness Week, we launched a range of training sessions for deaf education professionals. Our bespoke and specialist training is offered by our new team of Education Advisors, who are all…
The Benefact Group’s Movement for Good has returned! Please can you nominate us to be one of the charities to benefit from a £1,000 share of £1 million being given away by the Benefact Group this year. The more nominations we receive, the greater our chance of winning, so please nominate Ewing Foundation today. It’s…
We are delighted to announce further details of our Ewing Foundation and Burwood Park Foundation Conference: ‘Working with deaf children and young people with additional or complex needs. A sharing of good practice’ This one-day event will take place at Radisson Hotel in York on 7 June 2023, from 9.15am – 4pm. The programme includes…
Friday 25 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. Fitted in an operation, the cochlear implant works by stimulating nerves within the person’s…
A genetic test to determine if a newborn baby is vulnerable to deafness if treated with a commonly used antibiotic has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in draft guidance. If a newborn baby develops a bacterial infection, they are often treated with Gentamicin. This antibiotic carries the risk…
Members of the Ewing Foundation team have supported students training to become Qualified Teachers of The Deaf (QToDs) as part of their week-long residential course at the University of Birmingham. The trainees, all students on the University’s Hearing Impairment Mandatory Qualification course, took part in a combination of practical sessions and lectures. Technology Consultants Abul,…
Our Technology Consultant Paul Harris has developed a simple and safe method to monitor the Cochlear Osia or Med-EL Bonebridge devices. These devices are bone conduction implants placed fully under the skin, and combined with a small external magnetic processor held onto the head. The processor receives sounds through the microphone, converts them into a…
We are delighted to announce the following meeting dates in 2023 for our Greater London Affiliation for Deaf Education (GLADE): Wednesday 8th February. Thursday 25th May. We look forward to confirming venues and further details in early 2023. GLADE is our popular networking group for staff in resource provisions across Greater London. The meetings will…
Over the next year, we will be celebrating 70 amazing years of supporting deaf children and young people and their teachers. Malcolm and Sheila McAlpine set up the Ewing Foundation in 1952, naming it in honour of the audiologists Sir Alexander and Lady Irene Ewing. The Ewings had been of enormous help to the McAlpines…
Our Technology Consultant Paul Harris has been involved in developing an innovative new test rod to allow users to monitor their bone anchored hearing aids (BAHAs). For the past year, Paul has been working with audiology supplier Graham Bath to create the rod for use with a single test rod adaptation. It is compatible with…