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Supporting Someone You Love with Suspected Hearing Changes
When a loved one experiences hearing loss, denial and withdrawal are often driven by fear, frustration, or a desire to avoid feeling like a burden or facing the stigma associated with hearing loss. Suggesting an immediate hearing test can trigger defensiveness by focusing on a perceived deficit. By shifting the initial focus toward adjusting the…
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Why I Created the Sensory Pathway Project: Turning Personal Upheaval into Purpose
How My Hearing Changed Overnight When I was working as a care home manager, I loved my job. Making a direct, positive difference in people’s lives was everything to me. Then, in 2016, my life changed overnight. A sudden drop in my hearing, plunging me from severe to profound deafness. Up until then, I had…
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Breaking Down Barriers: Employment Support for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults in York.
Navigating the job market can feel daunting for anyone. But for deaf and hard of hearing adults, systemic, sensory, and communication barriers often make it feel nearly impossible. Sign up to The Sensory Pathway Pilot – a new employment readiness programme for deaf and hard of hearing adults in York. With the support of the…
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Assistive Technology as Standard Practice: Rethinking Workplace Accessibility
Workplace accessibility is often viewed as a reactive adjustment made after an employee discloses a disability. However, many barriers are not caused by an individual’s abilities, but by how work is designed. In environments heavy on reading and writing, assistive technology isn’t just an accommodation. It is a standard productivity tool. Assistive Technology as a…
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Thriving Communities and Workplaces: The World Works Better With Us
July is Disability Pride Month. While it’s a time for celebration, for many employers and businesses, this observance is still relatively unknown. Why? Because as a society, we still have a long way to go. The pervasive perception is still too often that disability means “less than,” rather than seeing the immense value disabled individuals…
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Hearing Loss in Noisy Environments: Dinner Shouldn’t Feel Isolating
Picture this. It is a Friday night. You walk into a restaurant to meet friends and family, the food smells amazing and you are excited to catch up with everyone. But within ten minutes, the background music kicks up a notch. The chatter around you begins to bounce off the hard walls. Suddenly, you find…
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Deprivation of Liberty Care Homes: What does the Supreme Court Judgement mean for Care Home Managers?
The Supreme Court delivered a monumental verdict on 2 June 2026, marking a significant turning point for the social care sector. For those managing or supporting residents in care settings, this ruling has direct implications, though we want to offer immediate reassurance. Below is a non-legal guide detailing the latest updates, the practices that remain…
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Struggling with “Well-Led” and “Responsive” in CQC Inspections?
If you’re seeing the same feedback appear in reports,“not always responsive” or questions around leadership, you’re not alone. Across many care homes, a common pattern is emerging. Care is still being delivered through a medical model of disability. This creates an “expert trap,” where staff feel they must lead as clinicians, and residents are positioned…
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Inclusive Workplace Communication: Challenging Assumptions This International Women’s Day
Inclusive workplace communication begins with one simple habit: resisting the urge to make assumptions. This International Women’s Day, we invite organisations and individuals to reflect on how everyday assumptions about gender, disability, race, or religion can affect how we communicate with one another. Too often we “fill in the blanks” about a person’s abilities or…