Nearly half of New Zealand’s youth have potentially damaged their hearing by the time they reach 25 years of age.
This startling fact was revealed in the National Foundation for the Deaf’s latest research to launch Deaf Awareness Week 2008 with the message “Listen Loud and Lose It.” Read more
Excessive noise at work caused nearly four and a half thousand New Zealanders over the past year to lose their hearing – damage that cannot be cured and which could have been avoided. Read more
A great deal of change is required in New Zealand if the new Disability Bill is to see deaf people get a decent education. If the Government is truly going to ratify the Convention, it needs to meet the needs of the child, not merely the dollar need. Read more
The Government needs to allocate increased funding for Sign Language interpreters if the recently passed Disability Bill is to make any significant difference to deaf children’s education, according to the National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD). Read more
The 2008 Budget more than doubles hearing aid subsidies for senior citizens. But the move still falls short of making hearing aids affordable for many New Zealanders. Read more
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