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with a commonly used antibiotic has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in draft guidance.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,…
Would you like to help deaf children and young people learn and achieve at school? The British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) is offering five scholarships for teachers to train to become Qualified Teachers of the Deaf (QToDs). The Con Powell Memorial Scholarships, named after BATOD’s first President and Ewing Foundation’s first Chief…
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…
Our Con Powell Memorial Scholars, past and present, have reunited for a special afternoon tea to celebrate ten years of the Scholarships programme for trainee Teachers of the Deaf. During the event in York, Scholars developed a giant time line marking their progress over the last decade, noting the defining moments in their personal journeys…
Thank you to our friends at BATOD Cymru (British Association of Teachers of the Deaf, Cymru) for inviting us to their study day at St Fagan’s National Museum for Wales on 4 July. It was wonderful to meet the delegates and share news of our heavily-subsidised services for deaf education professionals. We also had the…