This has left her profoundly deaf in one ear and severely deaf in the other. Ms Wimble said: "Growing up, I wore my hair covering my ears so no one could see my hearing aids, and I became very ...

When my mother was in her 80s, she was beginning to go deaf and ... to wear hearing aids, she'd forget what they were, fish one out shouting, ‘What's this thing doing in my ear?’ ...

Yet, Angela – who refuses to be pigeonholed by her deafness, or wear uncomfortable hearing aids to make life easier ... his fingers next to Ona’s ears to check her hearing.

Having worn hearing aids since I was two, there are habits which have become second nature when it comes to managing my ears and my hearing aids. I (almost) always leave my hearing aids in the ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. The amount of time it takes for an infant or small child to get a hearing aid fitted has gone from weeks to days. Students at the Central ...