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When Micah turned 2 we had learned that he was profoundly deaf.

Until she received a cochlear implant seven years ago, Rachel Kolb had been profoundly deaf.

Gurung, who is profoundly deaf, moved to the school from a specialist school around a year ago.

Perhaps the most recognized artist is Judith Scott, who was both profoundly deaf and had Down's syndrome.

She was born profoundly deaf and had recently received a cochlear implant to give her partial hearing.

However Michael, like Mr. Feldman, is profoundly deaf — his relationship to sound comes via its physical vibrations.

Still, an estimated 1 million Americans are profoundly deaf and use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate.

"I was born profoundly deaf and received my CI (Cochlear implant) at the age of 22 months," she said.

Entirely self-taught and born profoundly deaf in rural Idaho, where he spent his life, he never learned to speak or read.

Profoundly deaf and autistic, he refused to learn language when he was sent away to school, yet he was resourcefully, voraciously creative.

"I tell you this story because it illustrates what I was experiencing as a fledgling member of the profoundly deaf community," she adds.

Chrissy Marshall, a 19-year-old content creator in Los Angeles, was born hard of hearing and became profoundly deaf in high school.

Born profoundly deaf (meaning her ears detect no sound at any level), Cryer likes to get as close as possible to the music's source.

PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Giovanni Costanza is unemployed, has five children, cannot get any state care for his profoundly deaf son and is struggling to make ends meet.

The hope was that the device, called a cochlear implant, might eventually enable even profoundly deaf people to understand speech and to articulate a typical human voice.

Anna was born profoundly deaf and has gross motor delays because of a pervasive virus I'd never heard of, but caught while pregnant, called congenital CMV, or cytomegalovirus.

Image: Erik TrinkausA re-analysis of a 50,000 year old Neanderthal skull shows that, in addition to enduring multiple injuries and debilitations, this male individual was also profoundly deaf.

The Scottish percussionist, already a Dame, has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12; she hears her music with other parts of her body, literally feeling the rhythm.

But to avert this dialogue of the profoundly deaf, and to give learning about religion a better name, the champions of faith may have to dilute some of their own educational fiefdoms.

Born Profoundly Deaf and having worn a Cochlear Implant from a young age, she designs products to help people improve their quality of life, with the added value of expressing personal style.

Disability When I got a cochlear implant seven years ago, after being profoundly deaf for my entire life, hearing friends and acquaintances started asking me the same few questions: Had I heard music yet?

So this Paleolithic-era hunter-gatherer, according to the updated analysis conducted by anthropologists Erik Trinkaus from Washington University in St. Louis and Sébastien Villotte of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, was profoundly deaf.

When it was discovered that I was profoundly deaf at six weeks old, my parents faced a common decision: Should they adapt themselves to their deaf child, learn sign language, and embrace deaf culture, or have their deaf child adapt to hearing culture, give her cochlear implants or hearing aids, and train her in the precarious art of lip-reading?

You can range from profoundly deaf to some ability to hear sound above a certain threshold to hard-of-hearing with the ability to process speech, usually with the help of hearing aids or implant; smembers of the DHH community will also identify themselves as "Big 'D' deaf" to indicate they're part of the Deaf community, or "Little 'd' deaf" to indicate they are not involved in the Deaf community even though they have no hearing.

Kashmira Ram Joglekar (मराठी: कश्मिरा) (born 16 November 1985) is an Indian badminton player from Pune. She is profoundly deaf.

Frank Bartolillo (born 22 December 1981) is a profoundly deaf Australian fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Amy Mills was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. She was born profoundly deaf in both ears but which was not diagnosed until 18 months of age.

Edith Aileen Maude Whetnall, (6 September 1910 – 23 October 1965) was an ear, nose and throat surgeon. She was known for her work with children who were almost profoundly deaf.

In 1864 Melville published his first works on Visible Speech, to help the deaf both learn and improve upon their aural speech (since the profoundly deaf could themselves not hear their own aural pronunciations).

Nogueras was born "profoundly deaf". From 2013 through 2017, she portrayed Natalie Pierce on ABC Family's Switched at Birth. In 2018, she starred as Amaya, the lead protagonist's girlfriend, in the horror film Unfriended: Dark Web.

Allen John (born 31 August 1987) is a German professional golfer. He is profoundly deaf. He became a professional golfer in 2011 and played on the Challenge Tour in 2012. He was re-instated as an amateur in 2016.

His condition was only known to his son, who assisted Jean by smelling and commenting on his creations. Due to this remarkable feat, Jean Carles is often compared to Beethoven who continued to compose music after becoming profoundly deaf.

Aris was hard of hearing, and by the age of 60, he was profoundly deaf. He returned to employment with the International Correspondence School distance- learning. He enjoyed the opera. His other interests included: fishing, travel, entomology, and swimming.

Pierre Patrick Gorman, (1 October 1924 – 1 October 2006) was an Australian librarian and academic who specialised in education for children with disabilities. Born profoundly deaf, Gorman was the first deaf person to receive a doctorate at Cambridge University.

Variation within the seed region of mature miR-96 has been associated with autosomal dominant, progressive hearing loss in humans and mice. The homozygous mutant mice were profoundly deaf, showing no cochlear responses. Heterozygous mice and humans progressively lose the ability to hear.

The film was based on Shenton's own experiences as the child of a parent who became deaf. The film features profoundly deaf six-year- old first-time actor Maisie Sly as the titular child. British Sign Language (BSL) is used in the film.

Graham Lusk FRS(For) FRSE (February 15, 1866 - July 18, 1932) was an American physiologist, and nutritionist. He graduated from Columbia University, and from University of Munich with a PhD. He was an expert on diabetes. He was profoundly deaf from the age of 30.

Antoine Dresse was born into a family of bankers and industrialists on the 1st of August, 1902 in Liège, Belgium. Antoine was profoundly deaf in his both ears since childhood. He followed the tradition of his family and rose to the top of a brokerage business firm.

Thomas was born on May 24, 1950, in Boardman, Ohio. At the age of 18 months, she became profoundly deaf. The explanation of this phenomenon is not definitely known. At the age of seven, Thomas became the youngest Ohio State Champion free-style skater in skating history.

How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn to Read? Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 16 (4), 222-229. Having a basis of American Sign Language can benefit the acquisition of the English language. In fact, bilingual children show more development in cognitive, linguistic, and meta-linguistic processes than their monolingual peers.

Amanda Lynn Harvey (born January 2, 1988) is an American jazz and pop singer and songwriter. Profoundly deaf following an illness at the age of 18, she is most notable as a former contestant in the 12th season of America's Got Talent, where she performed original songs during the competition.

Freddy's first daughter Virginia was born profoundly deaf, and Freddy devoted herself to overcoming the challenges of deafness for her daughter and for other deaf children. She became chair of the National Deaf Children's Society in which role she served until 1965, and remained a vice-president for the rest of her life.

Cairns has been profoundly deaf since age 17, which he blamed on working in noisy conditions. In December 2009 he was fitted with a cochlear implant. He is the Ambassador for The National Foundation for the Deaf Inc. and is instrumental in raising awareness for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities.

Children who are deaf and employ a sign language as their primary language learn to read in slightly different ways than their hearing counterparts. Much as speakers of oral languages most frequently achieve spoken fluency before they learn to read and write, the most successful profoundly deaf readers first learn to communicate in a sign language. Research suggests that there is a mapping process, in which features from the sign language are accessed as a basis for the written language, Similar to the way hearing unimodal bilinguals access their primary language when communicating in their second language. Profoundly deaf ASL signers show that fluency in ASL is the best predictor of high reading skills in predicting proficiency in written English.

For example, a student who is totally blind or deaf is classified as very high needs, while a student who is partially sighted (6/36 or worse) or severely or profoundly deaf (71 dB loss or worse) is classified as high needs. ORS funding is permanent, so it continues until the student leaves school.

Ronda Jo Miller was born profoundly deaf in Little Falls, Minnesota. As a child she played basketball with her brother, Robert using a hoop nailed to a shed next to their barn. She attended the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf and at the Metro Deaf School. She graduated at Gallaudet University in 2001.

The film was based on Shenton's own experiences as the child of a parent who became deaf. The film features profoundly deaf six- year-old first-time actor Maisie Sly as the titular child. British Sign Language (BSL) is used in the film. The film won best short film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2017.

Robin Moore was born in Fort Worth, Texas in January 1955. When she was seventeen, a severe sinus infection rendered her profoundly deaf in both ears. After high school, she moved to Waco to attend college at Baylor University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1977. Shortly thereafter she was employed as an editor with Word Publishing.

Rosencrantz is married to the writer/director Daniel Abineri, and has one daughter, singer/songwriter Lola Aviva. She is known to watch entertainment shows as a pleasurable activity. Rosencrantz was profoundly deaf for nearly 30 years after contracting meningitis on holiday. By the end of her time working at the Jamie Oliver Media Group, she only had 3% of her hearing left.

Danielle Joyce is a Scottish athlete, who swims freestyle and backstroke in the S15 hearing impaired category. In 2017, she became a double gold medallist at the 23rd Deaflympics in Samsun, Turkey. She was born with moderate hearing loss which deteriorated rapidly from about the age of 12. She is now profoundly deaf in one ear and severely deaf in the other.

He was born at Boothstown, Salford, the son of cotton-mill manager Thomas Doodson. He was educated at Rochdale secondary school and then in 1908 entered the University of Liverpool, graduating in both chemistry (1911) and mathematics (1912). He was profoundly deaf and found it difficult to get a job but started with Ferranti in Manchester as a meter tester.

Diksha was born on 14 December 2000 with hearing problems and started to wear hearing aids since the age of six. She started playing golf since the age of seven, along with her brother Yogesh Dagar, who was also profoundly deaf. She was coached by her father Narinder Dagar, a former scratch golfer who also serves as an army personnel.

In 1955, Tumim enrolled at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read philosophy, politics and economics. She graduated in 1958. At the college, Tumim met Stephen Tumim, the barrister and future Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, and the couple married on 1 February 1962. They had three daughters; the second was born profoundly deaf and the youngest lost her hearing while she was still an infant.

Other disabled sailors have been involved in solo circumnavigations. Charl DeVilliers was a deaf round-the-world sailor; Robert E. Case was deaf and circumnavigated; and Vinny Lauwers, is a paraplegic who won the 2001 Laureus Award in the disability category for sailing around the world solo, unassisted, and nonstop. Gerry Hughes, a profoundly deaf Scottish teacher, sailed single-handed round the world "past all five capes".

By age thirteen, he was profoundly deaf, and the next year he received his first cochlear implant. At sixteen he had a second implant placed on his other ear. In 2017, after experiencing gender dysphoria throughout his childhood, Man began gender transitioning using testosterone. His use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), along with top surgery, helped with his identity, self-esteem, and body image.

Naughton wrote that Engelbart believed that machines "should do what machines do best, thereby freeing up humans to do what they do best".Naughton, John, "Google Glass? You have to applaud their vision", The Guardian, 23 February 2013. Lisa A. Goldstein, a freelance journalist who was born profoundly deaf, tested the product on behalf of people with disabilities and published a review on 6 August 2013.

An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf, due to retrocochlear hearing impairment (due to illness or injury damaging the cochlea or auditory nerve, and so precluding the use of a cochlear implant). In Europe, ABIs have been used in children and adults, and in patients with neurofibromatosis type II.

"Speech-like cerebral activity in profoundly deaf people processing signed languages: implications for the neural basis of human language." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97.25 (2000): 13961-13966. The deaf brain develops at the same rate as the hearing brain when learning language. Deaf babies babble on their hands the same way hearing babies babble with their mouths, and they acquire language in the same timeframe.

He spent nearly forty years in professional baseball from 1905 to 1942, influencing many of the greatest legends of the game. He was well known for his authoritative style behind the plate and his boastful demeanor in public. The second man was William "Dummy" Hoy, who since the age of two, was profoundly deaf and unable to speak. Hoy was drafted by the professional Oshkosh Baseball Club in 1886.

Having lost her hearing in both ears, Jacobson is profoundly deaf. She is a disability activist and gender equality spokesperson for UN Global Compact Canada. Working with the United Nations entity as a Youth Champion and Planet 50/50 champion on Women Empowerment, Gender Equality, and a sub-sector in disabilities, Deaf culture and entrepreneurialism she also is involved in women's organizations and projects for women with disabilities worldwide.

Because married women were not then permitted to work at University, Tikvah and Max established a home laboratory where they worked together. Their sons, Jonathan and Michael, were born in 1935 and 1936. From then on, Tikvah Alper combined demands of motherhood (Jonathan was born profoundly deaf), marriage and career. These included pre- and post-war spells in England, where she worked with the pioneer radiobiologist, Douglas Lea.

Music and the Deaf is a national and international charity based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1988 by deaf musician Dr Paul Whittaker, OBE to provide musical opportunities and access for children and adults who live with any degree of hearing loss. Since 2015 the charity has been helmed by Danny Lane, both a profoundly deaf musician and Artistic Director. British composer, Benson Taylor, is the incumbent patron.

For example, she (at least tries to) helps him deal with the concept of banks and the inaccuracies of the profoundly deaf landlord. In the first issue, Vext is visited by Superman and the angel Zauriel who also tell him they will be keeping an eye on him. At first Colleen assumes that they are role-players. Vext also must deal with the mistake-prone Department of Motor Vehicles.

They return to America and continue dancing. Sophie, Cunxin and Mary's first child, is born profoundly deaf, to their devastation. Mary gives up her career to take care of her, and Sophie has led a normal life because of it, also taking dance classes in following in her parents footsteps. They go on to have two more children, perfectly healthy, but decide to move to Mary's home country, Australia.

Melinda Louise Vernon (born 27 September 1985) is an Australian female deaf track and field athlete, triathlete as well as a swimmer. She competed at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics and in the 2013 Summer Deaflympics representing Australia. Vernon won 2 gold, 1 silver and a bronze medal in the Deaflympic events she had competed in Athletic events. Vernon relies solely on her vision as she is profoundly deaf in both ears.

Constance Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C. on December 31, 1952. She was born with a hearing impairment due to a genetic condition and became profoundly deaf by the age of thirty, though she became adept at lip-reading. Briscoe grew up in the Silver Spring, Maryland area. She attended Hampton University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1974, and American University, graduating with a Master of Public Administration degree in 1978.

Ovingdean Hall School (OHS) was a special day and boarding secondary school for the severely and profoundly deaf children and young people including those with additional special needs. It closed in July 2010. The former school's site is in a rural setting in the village of Ovingdean, near Brighton, East Sussex. Many deaf and hard of hearing children attendeded the school from all over the UK and sometimes from other English-speaking nations.

Whetnall and Fry challenged the assumption that severely deaf children would not learn to speak. They had noticed that some profoundly deaf children did speak and this was because their mothers had recognised their condition early and they had spoken directly into their child's ear. This would be called auditory training. Whetnall believed that there were no children born deaf or at least very few who did not have some small residual hearing.

Frankie survives the ordeal without any injuries and helps Ruby cope with the death of Maddie and Neil Cooper. The next day, Ruby's fiancée Jono dies in her arms after suffering undetected internal injuries from the crash and Jack and Frankie comfort her.when they find out Oscar is profoundly deaf Oscar's deafness causes tension between Frankie and Daren. Frankie accompanies Ruby and Esther to a memorial held at the college for Maddie, Neil and Jono.

Robertson, v They were forced to sell in 1947, however, when Pardoe almost died from a bout of double pneumonia.Robertson, vi During this illness she began to lose her hearing and from her mid-40s was profoundly deaf. In the 1950s they lived with Pardoe's elderly parents in Hampshire. She carried on writing, but her success began to wane at the end of the 1950s, with stories about comfortable middle- class families becoming less popular.

Christine Sun Kim was born in 1980 and raised in Southern California with hearing parents and a deaf sister. She has been profoundly deaf since birth. She attended University High School in Irvine, California and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2002 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and another in Sound and Music from Bard College.

Albert Edward Gardner (April 1887 – April 1923) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half. Gardner, who was profoundly deaf, was spotted by Birmingham playing for BSA Sports in the Birmingham Works League. He went on to make 120 appearances in all competitions for Birmingham in eleven years. Gardner died in Birmingham in April 1923; his death, at the age of 36, was registered in the Kings Norton district, which covered much of south Birmingham.

He served on Widnes Borough Council as a councillor from 1946. At the 1951 general election, Ashley contested Finchley without success. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent South at the 1966 general election. In December 1967, at the age of 45, as a result of complications of a routine ear operation to correct a mild hearing loss caused by a perforated eardrum early in his working career, he became profoundly deaf.

WPC Suzanne Ford was described as 'the ideal WPC'. She considered becoming a nurse before eventually joining the Metropolitan Police and saw her policing role as essentially one of serving the community rather than catching crooks. She was a natural police officer – 'one of the boys' who always seemed to get sent out on raids – but above all a caring woman. She also had a special ability – sign language, as she had a profoundly deaf sister.

They had six children, a number of whom were profoundly deaf. Some of these were known by the surname "Irvine", others "Douglas", rather than "Douglas-Irvine": # William Keith Douglas-Irvine (1876–1957) # Capt. (Walter) Francis Douglas (1878–1950) # Helen Florence Douglas MA (1880–1947), notable translator, historian & fiction writer and one of the first female graduates of St Andrews University # Rev. Henry Archibald Douglas-Irvine BA MA (1883–1962), Parson # Charles Gordon Douglas-Irvine (1885–1946) # Capt.

She followed this by executive producing Rocket Science for BBC2 and Headshrinkers of the Amazon for the National Geographic Channel. Her 2009 documentary for the National Geographic Channel, The Neanderthal Code was nominated for a Grierson Award for Best Science Documentary. Since 2013, Bunting has been series producer for production company Remark! on over 30 episodes of Magic Hands, a programme for CBeebies featuring poetry and Shakespeare for children translated entirely into British Sign Language, in which the presenters are all profoundly deaf.

Kate Harvey (13 November 1862 – 29 April 1946) was an English suffragist, physiotherapist, and charity worker. Profoundly deaf and widowed at a young age, she operated a home for women and children, and then later for disabled children. She participated in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was jailed for her refusal to pay tax if she were not allowed the right to vote. She was the first person imprisoned for failure to pay a tax under the Insurance Act.

Roberto Enrico Wirth (born May 25, 1950 in Rome) is the owner and Managing Director of the Hotel Hassler, a five-star hotel located at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy. Roberto E. Wirth represents the fifth generation of Swiss hoteliers. His parents Oscar Wirth and Carmen Bucher Wirth were both descendants of two families of hoteliers: the Bucher family from the Luzern area in Switzerland and the Wirth family from Maulach, Germany. Wirth was born profoundly deaf.

Chieko Wataya (綿谷千恵子 Wataya Chieko, Rinko Kikuchi) is a rebellious teenage girl who is profoundly deaf and non-verbal. While out with friends, she finds a teenage boy attractive, and following an unsuccessful attempt at socialising, exposes herself to him under a table. Chieko encounters two police detectives who question her about her father. She invites one of the detectives, Kenji Mamiya (真宮賢治 Mamiya Kenji, Satoshi Nikaido), back to the high-rise apartment that she shares with her father.

Eugene started working for HTV West (now ITV West Country) in 1982, becoming one of the first news interpreters for profoundly deaf people. She was one of the co-presenters of HTV News (West)HTV West until Autumn 2001, when she was replaced by Jenny Hull.ITV West Presenters Information After about fifteen years with HTV West, Eugene was increasingly working as a reporter and presenter on shows such as the Good Neighbour Show and the Vegetarian Cookery Show, specialising in community interest and social action series.

In 2010 Goswell gave birth to a son, Jesse, who has CHARGE syndrome; Jesse is profoundly deaf and has a serious heart condition which resulted in open heart surgery at the age of five months. She is learning British Sign Language and is vocal about the rights of parents of deaf children to have free access to learning sign language. In October 2013 there was a debate in Parliament led by the NDCS (National Deaf Children's Society) where both Rachel and Jesse were mentioned.

Saunders was co-author with John Bamford of Hearing Impairment, Auditory Perception, and Language Sisability, first published in 1985 by E. Arnold, with a second edition in 1991 by Whurr Publishers. Saunders was a co-producer of a play, The Sound of Waves performed in 2014 in Melbourne. The play was centred around the life experience and story of a girl who is profoundly deaf (played by Jodie Harris). The protagonist of the play was a trial patient who received a cochlear implant in 1999.

However, her father doesn't see school as important for Gracie in their lives as fishermen, while her mother wants her to have an education. The local school is on a nearby island and ruled by Mr Welbeloved, who struggles to get the young pupils to study. He is worried over the coming war and warns children to be vigilant against any who might be sending messages to enemies. Daniel and Gracie soon meet the Birdman in person, discovering that he is kind, gentle and profoundly deaf.

Ron Ferguson p76 In 1956 Rendall published Mollusca Orcadensia, a paper which brings together from all available sources records of marine mollusca indigenous to Orkney, which he had commenced in 1916.Literary Landscapes He published Orkney Shore, a work on the seashore life of Orkney, in 1960. It has been said, "All his studies - whether scientific, archaeological, theological or literary - were rooted in Orkney, and a love of the islands drove the rigour which he applied to each of his chosen areas". Rendall was a small, dark, man, profoundly deaf, and a bachelor.

His daughter Jamie-Lee was born profoundly deaf. The family got confirmation of this on the day of the final State of Origin game of the 1991 series, prompting Wally's decision to retire from Origin football following the game. Jamie-Lee is a water polo player who is currently on a scholarship to the Queensland Academy of Sport who has represented Australia, and is the first deaf person in the world to ever represent her country's national hearing team. In May 2010, Lewis was rushed to hospital and had his gallbladder removed.

The Sugar Factory is a 2007 collaborative album by English experimental musician Fred Frith and Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie. It comprises material drawn from improvisations by Frith and Glennie recorded during the making of the 2004 documentary film Touch the Sound about Glennie, who is profoundly deaf. The album was released in 2007 in the United States by Tzadik Records as part of their "Key Series". A soundtrack of the film was released in 2004, which contains some of Frith and Glennie's improvisations, plus additional music and sounds from the film.

Touch the Sound is a soundtrack by Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie of the 2004 documentary film Touch the Sound by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer about Glennie, who is profoundly deaf. It was released on CD in 2004 by German record label, Normal. The soundtrack consists of musical improvisations by Glennie, solo and with other musicians, including English experimental musician Fred Frith. Glennie and Frith were filmed improvising in an abandoned sugar factory in Dormagen, Germany, and six of the tracks on the soundtrack were recorded in the factory.

She refused all interviews. After her death it became known that she had been profoundly deaf since the age of 11: something even her publishers had been unaware of, as she always communicated with them by letter. Her deafness has since been related to themes and plots in her novels, in which people in possession of the truth about a crime are often isolated and in peril, either through being physically trapped, or because they are unable make others believe them.Adrian, Jack 'Patricia Carlon; suspense writer rediscovered in her 60s.

Dana Halter is an American woman in her early thirties who at the age of four suffered an infection which left her profoundly deaf. Since then, she has been able to master her life astonishingly well: she has acquired an academic degree and teaches at a school for the deaf in San Roque, likely analogous to Santa Barbara, California. Her boyfriend, Bridger Martin, is a "hearie," a man a few years younger than herself who creates special effects for the film industry. Out of love, Martin has gone to great lengths to accommodate her disability.

An illustration of a cochlear implant In cases when a person is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing in both ears, a cochlear implant may be surgically implanted. Cochlear implants bypass most of the peripheral auditory system to provide a sense of sound via a microphone and some electronics that reside outside the skin, generally behind the ear. The external components transmit a signal to an array of electrodes placed in the cochlea, which in turn stimulates the cochlear nerve. In the case of an outer ear trauma, a craniofacial prosthesis may be necessary.

In 1970, Yarra Valley Grammar was invited to become a member of the Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria. In 1972, Yarra Valley Anglican School established the first hearing unit for profoundly deaf students in the state of Victoria. Girls were admitted to the two senior levels in 1978, and the school progressively became fully co- educational from 1993 through 1995. In 1999, the School officially changed its name to Yarra Valley Grammar. In 2006 and then in 2016, Yarra Valley Grammar celebrated its 40th birthday and 50th birthday respectively with many special events.

Rebecca Harris studied film production at the University of West London, graduating in 2013. Harris is best known for producing The Silent Child. The film won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards. It tells the story of Libby, a profoundly deaf four-year-old girl, played by Maisie Sly, who lives a silent life until a social worker, played by Rachel Shenton, teaches her how to communicate through sign language..The film's television debut was on BBC One to an audience of 3.6 million.

Mr. Holland's Opus is a 1995 American drama film directed by Stephen Herek, produced by Ted Field, Robert W. Cort, and Michael Nolin, and written by Patrick Sheane Duncan. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss in the title role of Glenn Holland, a high-school music teacher who aspires to write his own composition while struggling with a lack of quality time with his wife and profoundly deaf son. The cast also includes Glenne Headly, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, and Jay Thomas. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.

Tone Tangen Myrvoll is profoundly deaf and was eligible to compete at the 1988 European Orienteering Championships among the non deaf athletes. She made her Deaflympic debut during the 1985 Summer Deaflympics and claimed a solitary bronze medal in the women's 1500m event. She also took part at the 1989 Summer Deaflympics and went medalless. She took up the sport of cross country skiing in 1987 and went onto make her Winter Deaflympics debut in the 1987 edition which was held in her hometown Oslo, capital of Norway.

Prof. Brian H. Brown in Manchester, UK (November 2012) Brian H. Brown is a medical physicist specialising in medical electronics. He is especially well known for his pioneering work with David C. Barber on electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Holder D.S., Electrical Impedance Tomography: Methods, History and Applications, Institute of Physics, 2004. . He is also noted for his work on the recording and understanding of the electrical activity of the gut, the analysis of nerve action potentials, the use of electromyography to investigate and identify carriers of muscular dystropy and the development of aids for the profoundly deaf.

During his teens, Hamilton started losing his hearing and was profoundly deaf by the age of 30, after which he wore hearing aids for a number of years. As his hearing deteriorated, he learnt to lip read to be able to continue his work as a GP. He was offered a cochlear implant in 2000, which became infected and he had to take a break from his career. At the third time of asking, in 2016, he had a successful cochlear implant. This has meant that he is now able to hear clearly for the first time in a number of years.

Touch the Sound is a documentary film by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie and how she hears with her body. In 2003 Riedelsheimer asked English experimental musician Fred Frith to perform with Glennie in the film; Frith had previously worked with Riedelsheimer on the soundtrack for his 2001 documentary, Rivers and Tides. Frith and Glennie performed in an abandoned sugar factory in Dormagen, Germany in July 2003, and were filmed under the pretext of "making a record". This was the first time that Frith and Glennie had worked together, and their entire performance was improvised.

Follow Alana is a travel television show hosted by Alana Nichols, and produced by Aurora Digital Media Co Ltd. Debuting in 2017, the show follows the life of Alana, who was born profoundly deaf, and learned to speak with the help of a cochlear implant and Auditory-Verbal Therapy. In the show, Alana introduces diverse sceneries, lifestyles, cultures, and cuisines of various destinations, encouraging the audience to build a loving and sustainable relationship with the environment. The show has been broadcast on television in Taiwan, and can also be found on various platforms online including 'mini-episodes' on YouTube.

There are mixed results in how important phonological information is to deaf individuals when reading and when that information is obtained. Alphabets, abugidas, abjads, and syllabaries all seem to require the reader/writer to know something about the phonology of their target language prior to learning the system. Profoundly deaf children do not have access to the same auditory base that hearing children do. Orally trained deaf children do not always use phonological information in reading tasks, word recognition tasks or homophonic tasks; however, deaf signers who are not orally trained do utilize phonological information in word-rhyming tasks.

When Oscar does not wake, Darren and Nancy are concerned so consult the hospital who reveal that initial tests were inconclusive and further testing has revealed that Oscar is not responding to sound and is profoundly deaf. Oscar's deafness causes tension between Darren and his stepmother Frankie Osborne fighting, leading to Darren walking out. Darren spends the day contemplating how Oscar would be affected by his deafness and begins learning sign language and buys specialist toys to support Oscar. Darren and Nancy think of getting cochlear implants for Oscar so he can hear but Nancy is put off by the operation.

The Society provides a broad range of services to those with a sensory impairment in the West Yorkshire region. These include a Sign Language Interpreting Service, equipment provision, social workers for profoundly deaf people, services for deafblind people, training courses and qualifications including a Taster Course, Levels 1–3 in British Sign Language, and Sensory Awareness. The Society has worked in partnership with Leeds City Council since the 1950s, and currently acts as an arms-length service provider for a number of services. The Society also relies on voluntary donations and fundraising to deliver a number of services to the community.

Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie. In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989, collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she perceives sound. The film appeared at over 20 film festivals across the world, and won several awards, including "Best Documentary" at the 2004 BAFTA Awards, Scotland. A soundtrack of Touch the Sound featuring Glennie and Frith, plus additional music and sounds from the film, was released in 2004.

Gerry Hughes was born in Glasgow. He was profoundly deaf from birth. His father was a skilled sailor and Gerry enjoyed boating with him from around 2 years old in Largs, Rhu and Inverkip. At age 2 and a half, he was enrolled at St. Vincent’s School for the Deaf. At thirteen Gerry began his schooling at St. John’s School for the Deaf, Boston Spa, Yorkshire. He went on to attend Norfolk House College for the Deaf where he studied City and Guilds for London Institute Mechanical Engineering Part One Certificate, 'A' Level Technical Drawing, and ‘O’ Level Mathematics and Physics.

Allyson was born on Yorke Peninsula in country South Australia, the daughter of Woolford Parsons and Marie Parsons, a former art teacher. She was born profoundly deaf, and her parents were faced with the prospect of moving from the farm which they had worked hard to establish in degraded, salt-affected soil. But she had learned to lip-read and with patience and hard work and help from the local school learned to speak clearly. She has been painting from her youth and has been a successful exhibitor locally and in Adelaide for over 25 years.

Lynda Grier, 1919 Lynda Grier, CBE (3 May 1880 – 21 August 1967) was a British educational administrator, policy advisor, and the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1921 to 1945. Born in Staffordshire, Grier was profoundly deaf as a child, which resulted in her lack of formal education. When she and her mother, after her father's death, moved to Cambridge, Grier obtained permission to attend lectures at Newnham College as an external student. In order to enroll formally, she had to teach herself basic math and languages to fill the gaps in her prior reading education.

Goldin-Meadow's experience at the Piagetian Institute in Geneva piqued her interest in the relation between language and thought. This interest continues to energize her research, which exploits the gestures that we produce with our hands to explore two fundamental questions. # Which properties of language are so fundamental to human language that they will appear in a communication system developed by a child who does not have access to linguistic input? Goldin-Meadow studies this question by observing the home-made gestures, called homesigns, that profoundly deaf children create when they are not exposed to sign language.

He received the MSEE degree from Stanford in 1969, and the Ph.D. degree in 1973. Dr. Melen was invited to join the research staff of the Stanford Integrated Circuits Laboratory in 1972, and was named Associate Director of the laboratory in 1974. Recognizing that charge-coupled device (CCD) technology had greater potential than MOS technology in delivering "full video quality imaging" for solid-state image sensors he worked on the development of CCD image sensors for application to the Optacon reading machine for the blind. He also applied CCD technology to medical ultrasonic imaging systems, and worked on the development of an implantable cochlear device for the profoundly deaf.

Reuben Heywood is an aspiring writer, who grapples with anxiety, manifesting as a stutter, while attempting to build a career as both a writer and actor. When a performance at an amateur theatre showcase goes awry, Reuben is bullied by the troupe leader and a sign language interpreter. Derek Shanahan, a profoundly deaf man from the audience (played by Joshua Sealy) comes to vindicate him and the two form a friendship which quickly turns into a sexual relationship. As Derek and Reuben discuss their mutual ambitions within the arts and political activism, Reuben discloses his troubled past and the origins of his speech impediment.

A Silent Agreement is a 2017 Australian romantic drama film written and directed by Davo Hardy. It was the first theatrically-released, cinematic film to feature Auslan (Australian Sign Language) as both a main language of the film's dialogue, as well as a key plot element in the story. The plot concerns Reuben (played by Davo Hardy), who overcomes a speech impediment with the use of Auslan, with help from his profoundly deaf boyfriend (played by Joshua Sealy). Having built up Reuben's confidence enough to encourage his higher ambitions, Derek contacts an Australian screen legend, Gareth (played by Paul Mercurio) to help mentor Reuben in his burgeoning career.

James Castle was a self-taught artist who created drawings, assemblage and books throughout his lifetime. Castle was born profoundly deaf and for at least some time attended the Gooding School for the Deaf and the Blind in Gooding, Idaho, but it is not known to what extent he could read, write, or use sign language. Castle's artworks were created almost exclusively with found materials such as papers salvaged from common packaging and mail, in addition to food containers of all types. Castle mixed ink using soot from the woodstove with saliva and applied it with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks, and other found objects.

The eldest of two boys born to a chartered electrical engineer and a former Wren, he moved with his family from South London to Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, at a young age. Educated at Culford School, Bury St. Edmunds, he attended Southampton University, where he took his bachelor's degree in history in 1974, and King's College, London, where he took an M.A. in war studies in 1975. Despite being profoundly deaf and asthmatic, White was a long-standing member of the Southsea Shakespeare Actors and a popular after-dinner speaker. He was a server at Portsmouth Cathedral, and a keen theatre and cinema goer.

Karen Jane Danzig (born 13 July 1972) is a British singer with paternal German ancestry. She was raised by profoundly deaf parents, with a hearing brother and a deaf younger sister. Danzig, mostly known for her success in the clubland genre of Dance music, sang and co-wrote "Heartbeatz" which entered the UK Singles Chart at No.16 on All Around The World Records. She has co- written and given vocal performances for tracks by Styles & Breeze, Flip N Fill, Love to Infinity and Micky Modelle, and for labels such as All Around The World, Ministry of Sound, Sony ATV, Can You Feel It, and Serious Records.

Every newborn baby now has their hearing screened before they leave the hospital, however, this procedure was not put into place until 1993. Tom and Louise accepted the doctor's assessment and continued on with their lives until the Fourth of July, they became concerned because Lynn was not bothered by the wailing fire trucks or the bursting fireworks. When she was 16 months old, Lynn's hearing was tested at the John Tracy Clinic and she was found to be profoundly deaf. Once Lynn's deafness is proven to be true, Tom and Louise begin teaching her how to lip-read as opposed to how to sign.

While the critical period for the visual cortex ends in early childhood, other cortical areas and abilities have a critical period that lasts up through maturity (age 16), the same time frame for the development of fluid intelligence. In order for a person to develop certain intellectual abilities, they need to be provided with the appropriate environmental stimuli during childhood, before the critical period for adapting their neuronal connections ends. The existence of a critical period of language development is well established. A case illustrating this critical period is that of E.M., a young man who was born profoundly deaf and did not have any interaction with the deaf community.

Bulmershe prided itself on its accessibility for students with disabilities, and offered specially adapted residential hostel accommodation. The offices of the Bulmershe Resource Centre for the Handicapped (BReCH) were sited on campus for several years. With the support of Principal Harold Silver (1978–86), the College also then became a locus for a wide range of activities related to the deaf community. Within a space of a few years, it offered a Theatre of the Deaf course of study, housed offices for both the Berkshire Consortium Support Services and the national charity Friends for the Young Deaf Trust (FYD), and was home to the first-ever profoundly deaf Student Union President, Craig Crowley.

Furthermore, when performing on tasks with phonologically confusable initial sounds, hearing readers made more errors than deaf readers. Yet when given sentences that are sublexically confusable when translated into ASL, deaf readers made more errors than hearing readers. The body of literature clearly shows that skilled deaf readers can employ phonological skills, even if they don’t all the time; without additional longitudinal studies it is uncertain if a profoundly deaf person must know something about the phonology of the target language to become a skilled reader (less than 75% of the deaf population) or if by becoming a skilled reader a deaf person learns how to employ phonological skills of the target language.

Touch the Sound explores Evelyn Glennie's career as a musician and how, despite being profoundly deaf, she is able to perceive sounds other than with her ears. Glennie explains how a neurological disorder struck her as a child, and by the age of eight, soon after she had started to play the piano, she began to lose her hearing. When she was 13 an audiologist said it was no longer possible for her to play music and suggested she be moved to a school for the deaf. But Glennie remained at her school, and switched from piano to percussion, the vibrations of which, she discovered, she could sense with her sense of touch.

Gerry Hughes is a British sailor who became the first profoundly deaf man to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean. He crossed the finishing line off Castle Hill, Newport at 11:30 am local time (4:30 pm UTC) on Saturday 3 July 2005 after 35 days of sailing. Hughes also became the world's first deaf yachtsman to sail single-handed around the world to pass the five great capes. He departed Troon, Scotland on 1 September 2012 and returned to Troon on 8 May 2013. Dr Hughes was added as number 201 on Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s list of elite solo circumnavigators \- In 2019 Gerry Hughes published a book about his life called 'Bridging Our Differences'.

This research allowed for the development of hearing tests for infants which could be performed by monitoring the brain's response directly to sounds, and could then be used to prescribe hearing aids. The research led to the development of auditory brainstem implants and cochlear implants which could be surgically implanted to allow individuals to regain the ability to hear for the profoundly deaf. With John S. O'Brien, he co-founded the department of neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, and continued his research there after he was required to retire at age 67. Galambos was inducted in 1960 as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1959, Dowling directed a monthly series for deaf children for producer Ursula Eason, called For Deaf Children. This was paced slowly enough for children to read captions and subtitles, but it had been noted in surveys that a favourite programme for deaf children was Top of the Pops, due to its lively and fast- moving format and the fact that even the profoundly deaf could still enjoy the music's lower frequency notes. Dowling and Eason took the concept and turned it in 1964 into Vision On, front by mime actress Pat Keysell (Eason's former PA) and artist Tony Hart. The aim of the programme was to entertain but also to encourage imagination, with a fast-paced flow of contrasting ideas, both sane and silly.

As an actress, she performed in regional theaters during the 1950s and 1960s, and directed plays in Washington, Oregon and California. Haag has exhibited her work in West Coast museums, competitions, and galleries—including the Seattle Art Museum, the Frye Museum, the Otto Seligman Gallery, and the Woessner Gallery. In Los Angeles, Haag served as Film and Television Director for the John Tracy Clinic, where she directed a series of forty-two films, "Teaching Speech to the Profoundly Deaf," for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In 1971 she joined the staff of the American Film Institute where, as Director of National Production Programs, she administered the nation's largest film granting program, the Independent Filmmaker Program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Figaro Systems grew out of a conversation in 1992 among three opera colleagues: Patrick Markle, at that time Production Director of The Santa Fe Opera, Geoffrey Webb, Design Engineer for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and Ronald Erkman, then a technician for the Met. At that time, opera houses had two options for the display of libretto and dialogue subtitles: projection onto a large screen above the stage or onto smaller screens throughout the theatre. Typically, the translation was in a single language.Dennis Domrzalski, "Figaro: Eyes translate when ears don't get it", New Mexico Business Weekly, April 8, 2005 The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 had recently been enacted; Markle was trying to solve the problem of venues which lacked accessibility to patrons with disabilities, including the profoundly deaf.

Anyone who thought he was too gentle > for his own good should have seen his fire when he denounced the crass > capitalists – and, worst of all, the English and Australian Labor > politicians with their talk of pragmatism and compromise, the men he thought > betrayed the spirit of the Left.’Jane Sullivan, “Remembering Horner” > Melbourne Age, 8 March 1997 p. 135 In his 70s Horner became profoundly deaf and was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but while this curtailed his capacity to draw and compelled him to retire, he was writing letters to the Age as late as 1993, when he detailed the kind concern and care of passers-by who attended to him when he collapsed at North Brighton station.Arthur Horner, “Strangers in the Night” (letter) Melbourne ‘’Age’’ 27 July 1993 p.

She was born hard of hearing in Burnaby, British Columbia as a result of maternal rubella (she is now profoundly deaf), and attended several schools including Jericho Hill Provincial School (1960–1965), the Herbert Symonds Public School in Montreal, Quebec (1965–1966), the Ontario School for the Deaf, Milton (1966–1971 and 1973–1974), and the Ontario School for the Deaf in Belleville (1971–1973). Prior to joining her husband on stage, she travelled through Alaska presenting workshops in mime, and appeared on television in Toronto, Ontario with her puppets. At the beginning of each show, the couple's hearing son Samson Hartland (b May 5, 1979), serves as interpreter while his father introduces the concept behind Canadian Deaf Theatre and explains something about their innovative and entertaining techniques.

Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, The London Encyclopedia, Serbia House Maxim founded an arms company with financial backing from Edward Vickers to produce his machine gun in Crayford, Kent, which later merged with Nordenfelt. Subsequently, part of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company purchase by Vickers Corporation in 1897, formed 'Vickers, Son & Maxim'. Their improved development of the Maxim gun design, the Vickers machine gun, after Maxim's resignation from the board in 1911 on his 71st birthday, was the standard British machine gun for many years. With arms sales led by Basil Zaharoff, variants of the Maxim gun were bought and used extensively by both sides during World War I. In his later years Maxim became profoundly deaf, as his hearing had been damaged by years of exposure to the noise of his guns.

George Watson, an Australian World War II veteran, had lost his hearing after a bomb blast thirteen years earlier. An audiologist working on Clark's team at the time described the team's first two patients as, "guys who'd put up with anything and continue to keep coming in and support the work.". After successfully completing the surgery in 1978, with his post-doctoral colleague, Yit Chow Tong, Clark discovered how multi-channel electrical stimulation of the brain could reproduce frequency and intensity as pitch and loudness in severely-to-profoundly deaf adults who originally had hearing before going deaf. Electrical stimulation at low rates (50 pulses/sec) was perceived as a pitch of the same frequency, but at rates above 200 pulses/sec, what was heard was poorly discriminated and a much higher pitch.

Being profoundly deaf since birth, Roberto Wirth has always been very active in associations for the deaf. While in Hawaii, he was the Chairman of "Silent Aloha", an association which published a monthly newsletter for the deaf, distributed in the United States. He also served on the Committee for the Disabled of the City of Honolulu and held several speeches on deafness at various conferences of the Governor of Hawaii. He has been conferred several awards and honours from associations for the hearing-impaired in USA and in Italy and from other institutions, such as the Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund of the Gallaudet University, in Washington DC, in July 1992 (for excellence in a field not related to deafness), as well as for his professional career as successful hotelier.

Vision On was conceived and developed by BBC producers Ursula Eason and Patrick Dowling to replace a monthly series For Deaf Children (1952–64), a programme paced slowly enough for children to read captions and subtitles. It was noted in surveys that a favourite for deaf children was Top of the Pops, due to its lively and fast-moving format and that even the profoundly deaf could still enjoy the music's lower frequency notes. There was initial disagreement as to whether lip-reading or British Sign Language would be more appropriate. Eventually it was decided that, since the new programme was intended as entertainment rather than education, communication would be entirely visual, the amount of text would be severely limited and, except for a few repeated statements, speech would be abandoned altogether.

Pierre Gorman was born in Melbourne, Australia—the only child of Sir Eugene Gorman, a barrister and soldier, and his French wife, Marthe Vallée, whom he had met while serving in France during World War I. Gorman was born profoundly deaf, and his parents resolved to ensure his education was as normal as possible. From the age of two, he was coached in speech and lip reading by two specialised teachers: Dr Henriette Hoffer (from the Centre Médico-Pédagogique in Paris) and Doreen Hugo (of the Victorian Deaf and Dumb Institution), with whom he learnt to lip read and speak in both English and French. It is believed that his first word was "dog", as he enjoyed his Airedale Terrier from a very young age. From the age of six, he attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School.

Illustrations of Visible Speech chart of English sounds On the Nature and Use of Visible Speech Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of the speech organs in articulating sounds. Bell was known internationally as a teacher of speech and proper elocution and an author of books on the subject. The system is composed of symbols that show the position and movement of the throat, tongue, and lips as they produce the sounds of language, and it is a type of phonetic notation. The system was used to aid the deaf in learning to speak. In 1864 Melville promoted his first works on Visible Speech, in order to help the deaf both learn and improve upon their speech (since the profoundly deaf could not hear their own pronunciation).

Richard Williams was recognised in the 1938 National Eisteddfod for his musical talent and at the age of 15 began touring with a troupe of singers around the music halls of the United Kingdom before returning home to join the fledgling Welsh National Opera. His musical career ended when his baby son contracted meningitis, making him profoundly deaf and Richard, appalled by the facilities to help children with this condition, decided to educate his son himself. With a part-time job selling insurance helping to keep the family going, he devoted the rest of his time to music and formed the Gentleman Songsters in 1951, followed by the Richard Williams Singers in 1965 and the Richard Williams Junior Singers in 1966. Each achieved remarkable success, with frequent broadcasts, recording sessions and tours of Europe and North America.

María Belén Dutto (born May 22, 1987 in Alta Gracia, Córdoba) is an Argentine amateur BMX cyclist. Being profoundly deaf since birth with a 98% hearing loss, Dutto represented her nation Argentina at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and also managed to surmount her physical handicap by taking home the gold medal at the 2009 BMX Latin American Championships in São Paulo, Brazil. Dutto qualified for the Argentine squad, along with her teammate and three-time world champion Gabriela Díaz, in women's BMX cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving one of the nation's two available berths based on her top-ten performance from the UCI BMX World Rankings. After she grabbed a fourteenth seed on the morning prelims with a time of 40.193, Dutto scored a total of 20 placing points to take the seventh spot in the semifinals, thus eliminating her from the tournament.

Terry Ruane (born 21 November 1946 in Croydon, Surrey) is an English actor and director who became profoundly deaf as a result of meningitis at the age of five. Although educated in an oral school, he is also a sign language user, and from 1974 he was the General Manager of the British Theatre of the Deaf under Pat Keysell which was the first-ever professional company of deaf actors to tour Great Britain presenting plays in sign language. When Keysell resigned in 1976, Ruane went on to develop and tour his own company, Interim Theatre Company, which continued for some years and he is believed to be the first deaf person in the UK to co-direct a play, Hearing at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1979. In the early 1980s he had various projects occupying him in the United States, and was involved in setting up the London production of Children of a Lesser God and later ran a Theatre in Education project using sign language for children in special schools.

June 2011 saw Centenary Celebrations to celebrate 100 years of the RNID and a new change of name—Action on Hearing Loss. "Action on Hearing Loss" was chosen because it better describes the breadth of help and support they provide for people with all types of hearing loss—from people who are profoundly deaf, to people who are losing their hearing. They trade under the new name 'Action on Hearing Loss', but like a lot of other charities who have changed their names, they will be keeping the legal name, Royal National Institute for Deaf People. AHL announced in 2020 that it was selling its 23 care homes and its supported living, community and domiciliary care services which it had been providing since 1929. The charity’s 560 clients were told their homes and services were to be sold and the 600 staff would be transferred to a new owner. This was despite the organisation’s chief executive saying in 2018 he had no plans to carry out the same kind of mass sale of services that he oversaw in his previous position as chief executive of the disability charity Scope.