Auditory Verbal

Freshers Week and more advice for starting university with a hearing loss from AVUK Young Ambassador James Curtis

It’s so important just to jump in to university life and embrace it. You’ll get what you put in and don’t be afraid to ask for help - universities are very happy to accommodate changes that will help. Read more
Young Ambassador joins her pet dog to launch Countdown to 2020 Loud Shirt Day

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Shoshie's Story

Shoshana Mae Turner arrived 2.5 weeks early on 9 August 2018. She failed the newborn hearing screening twice. The first screening, in the early hours towards the end of our first night at the hospital. The nurse said it was probably nothing and I didn’t think about it again. The second time Shoshie failed the screening she was two two weeks old and Dan was concerned as he’d noticed she hadn’t responded to a loud alarm at the hospital the day after she was born. Read more
Catching up with AVUK's University of Sussex Interns

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Our vision is that all deaf children have the opportunity to listen and speak as equals alongside their hearing peers

Joshua's story

Joshua’s hearing loss was picked up through the newborn screening test at just one day old. Read more
Alana's story

Alana’s hearing loss was identified by the newborn hearing screening. She was born with a moderate-severe loss and received her first set of hearing aids at 3 months old old. Read more
Onna's story

Onna, was born prematurely at 28 weeks, alongside her typically hearing twin sister, Sala. Onna passed her newborn screening. However, by about 10 months old, she had progressively but quickly lost all her hearing. Onna’s hearing loss was initially misdiagnosed but she was finally diagnosed with severe-profound hearing loss and Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder. She received bilateral cochlear implants a month before her third birthday and started the Auditory Verbal UK a few months later. Read more