Links
Organisations
The content of these sites does not necessarily reflect the opinion of ATLA.
The Association of Lipspeakers
The Association of Lipspeakers (ALS) is the professional body that represents lipspeakers. A lipspeaker is a hearing person trained to repeat a speaker's message to lipreaders accurately, without using their voice.
The British Tinnitus Association
Deafness Research UK
Deafness Research UK (previously Defeating Deafness; also known as the Hearing Research Trust) is the medical charity for deaf and hard of hearing people. Supported entirely by voluntary contributions, Deafness Research UK aims to:
- support high quality medical and scientific research, which meet the needs of hearing impaired people and the research community.
- educate people about medical issues relating to deafness and other hearing problems, offering information and advice based upon the most up-to-date and reliable evidence available.
Hearing Concern
Hearing Concern is a national charity which helps deaf and hard of hearing people to combat the isolation of hearing loss through support, advice and information.
LINK
The LINK Centre is a national UK organisation for deafened men and women - people who have grown up with normal or near-normal hearing, then become severely or totally deaf in adult life. It was set up in 1972 and provides the only national resource in the UK to offer specialist rehabilitation for deafened people. LINK helps people adjust to deafness in everyday living through rehabilitation and life skills programmes, trains health care professionals in acquired deafness, and conducts research that will advance the understanding of this type of deafness.Our services are open to all deafened people, including people with cochlear implants, and their families.
The National Association of Deafened People
National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS).
The National Deaf Children's Society is the only UK charity solely dedicated to providing support, information and advice for deaf children and young people, their families and professionals working with them.
RNID - The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
Companies that supply equipment to help people with a hearing loss
The inclusion of these links on these pages does not mean that ATLA recommends or supports them in any way. These links are included for information purposes only. ATLA remains an independent charity working towards the promotion of lipreading in the UK.
BT Age and Disability Action Team
The BT Age and Disability Action Team website offers useful details of phones and other services of particular help to those with a hearing loss and also the download of Sound Connections, which offers practical advice on how to hear better on the phone.