Tag: Training
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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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Reflections from Rachel’s recent invitation to the House Of Lords.
At Living4Moments, our mission has always been to make inclusion meaningful. To help organisations recognise the value of accessibility, remove barriers, and create spaces where everyone can thrive. So, it was an honour to attend the launch of the Lilac Disability Trading Framework at the House of Lords this week. A landmark initiative designed to…
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Lipreading Classes
The Power of Lipreading: A Lifelong Skill I’m Excited to Teach in 2025 Lipreading is an essential part of my life. To someone living with severe hearing loss since childhood who has now become profoundly deaf it is a lifeline. It’s a skill I’ve honed over a lifetime, and I’m excited to be able to…
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July is Disability Pride Month
Despite being designated as Disability Pride Month, this observance is still relatively unknown to many employers. This may be because society as a whole has a long way to go in including disabled people in all aspects of life. Disability does not mean “less than,” but sadly, this is still the pervasive perception of disabled…
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Personal story
Today, I’m opening up about my journey, hoping to shed light on the complexities and joys of living with deafness. It’s crucial for others to grasp the challenges we face and respect the choices we make. Diagnosis and Support: I was diagnosed as severely deaf at 13 months though doctors thought I had heard in…
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Empowering Your Care Team: Supporting Individuals with Learning Disability and Hearing Loss
Our latest training course really has the potential to open up a new world of sound for individuals with a learning disability and hearing loss. The training focuses on the shared understanding that everyone has a desire to communicate and be understood. You will explore different ways of communicating and think about what works for…
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The significance of “Empowering Choices” to Health and Social Care.
Empowering Choices workshops are very much needed. Through social media and recently on TV in panorama programmes we have been reminded yet again how many professionals in hospitals and care settings ignore essential legislation ( Mental Capacity Act, Care Act and Human Rights) that is there to protect us from abuses. To name just a…