Definition: Used to describe people with hearing loss, especially when it is severe or profound (unable to hear anything below 70Db).
Category: Other Condition
Credit: Action on Hearing Loss
Source: http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/your-hearing/about-deafness-and-hearing-loss/glossary/d-to-f.a
Service descriptions mentioning the term
Deaf
The fully trained staff and volunteers at Vision Support's Halton Sensory Service
Resource Centre alongside
Deafness Resource Centre, supported by Halton Borough Council, are a fully integrated sensory service geared to meeting the diverse needs of people with sensory loss. They demonstrate and sell specialist equipment to help with
daily living. The Resource Centre has a range of information on Vision Support's services and other relevant services available locally and nationally.
Men's Group - (Bridgend County Borough Council)Service
VI/
Deaf-blind men of all ages meet every 6 weeks in Wetherspoons Maesteg 2-4pm. Contact Sandy Davies,
Rehabilitation Officer, for forthcoming dates.
If you reside in Wales, most optometrists can also offer a free eye test if:
you have an eye problem that needs urgent attention;
you have sight in one eye only;
you’re registered as
sight impaired;
you have a hearing impairment and are profoundly
deaf;
you suffer from
retinitis pigmentosa;
you are of Black or Asian ethnicity;
your GP has referred you because they think you may have an eye problem.
