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WHAT IS IT ACTUALLY LIKE TO BE DEAF?

And what can you really do about it? Here is a wonderful Testimonial Advert we created for the amazing people at Regain Hearing which contains quite astonishingly positive genuine reviews from customers. Are they that good? You’d better believe it.

Deafness is the one disability everyone feels free to joke about. Those of us who have a bit of a hearing loss do it ourselves, in our embarassment, in our desire to make light of the inconvenience it causes. We tolerate being the problem, being the butt;. we’re often the brunt of “jokes” and comments hat no one would ever make about a blind person or someone in a wheelchair. We are the gingers of the disability world. Everyone is allowed, somehow, to insult us. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bitter about it. Not hearing people can be a real pleasure. Turning the volume down on the world can be a real relief.

And while it is frequently more efficient to communicate in writing, telling a loved one who has come to you for comfort and affection to “please put that down in an email, darling”, is not the formula for successful relating. But on a serious and more useful note, while hearing loss can make older people’s lives even more lonely, isolated and difficult, for those of us running businesses, working, communicating, it is a big problem.

So what can you do?

Good news; there are many hearing aid suppliers. You can wait half an eternity for the NHS to fit you in for a short, indifferent, peremptory fitting of a second-rate aid. And you might be one of the lucky ones whose hearing loss. You can go to Specsavers or Boots and get the next level up, but you might still be spending a big chunk of change for a unsatisfactory product.

Regain are unique in that they will take the time to explore and investigate your specific hearing loss - high frequency signal loss in my case - and they will swap out your hearing aid for a different one, and keep testing until they get as close to Right as is possible, without - crucially - charging you extra for that time. The service and products, the attention to the customer’s needs are phenomenal. Writing this blog ought to have been my opportunity to sell to you my services as a corporate videographer and why you should let me produce a testimonial video for you. Instead, I’ve found myself writing ad copy for them. Because yes I did invest in their top of the range hearing aid products, and yes, they really are that good!

As one customer says; “It’s brought me back to the world, to be able to lead a full life.”

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