Listening ACCESSability

Making Listening Accessible

Welcome to Listening ACCESSability.

We’re here to support your learning and understanding more about hearing loss, Listening and Spoken Language, improving Access to Information, and how to support students with hearing loss in the mainstream classroom.

Our Latest Blog Posts

  • Live Captioning for Everyone

    Ok, I promise, I’ll get to Live Captions in just a second, but first a quick update… We’ve been busy! It’s been the summer and Tracey and I are both educators. I travelled around Europe and Canada with my family, while Tracey spent time closer to home. However, we certainly haven’t been sat around, and… Read More

  • How I love the sound of sweet nothings in my ear!

    I’m not a hopeless romantic by any means, but everything becomes clearer and way more comfortable when someone speaks into my ear. I immediately am more confident, relaxed and poised to hear more of what they have to say… Before you start getting steamy thoughts, I’m referring to when someone uses my trusty Remote Microphone!… Read More

  • How Aware Are you?

    How Aware Are you?

    Deaf Awareness Week 2023 How d/Deaf aware are you? Consider these guiding questions to get you thinking: What does a d/Deaf person look like? How do they smell? When do they shower? Where do d/Deaf people live? Who is more likely to have d/Deaf children? Intrigued? I’ve been told many a time “Wow! You don’t… Read More

  • Accessible Media is Everyones Responsibility

    Accessible Media is Everyones Responsibility

    When we browse the internet we are bombarded with digital media, whether it be in the format of pictures, videos or soundbites. As time progresses, we are inundated with more and more media. This media should be becoming more and more accessible and yet, unfortunately it isn’t. If anything, it is increasingly inaccessible. When the… Read More