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Action on Hearing Loss

Index Action on Hearing Loss

Action on Hearing Loss, known until 2011 by its official title, the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), is a charitable organization working on behalf of the UK's 9 million people who are deaf or have hearing loss. [1]

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Beatrice Wright

Beatrice Frederika Wright, Lady Wright MBE, née Clough, later Rathbone (17 June 1910 – 17 March 2003) was an American-born British politician.

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Brian Rix

Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, (27 January 1924 – 20 August 2016) was a British actor and activist.

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Brook Street

Brook Street is one of the principal streets on the Grosvenor Estate in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair.

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Carl Giles

Ronald "Carl" Giles OBE (29 September 1916 – 27 August 1995), often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the Daily Express.

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Clive Mason

Clive Mason (born 1954) is a Deaf Scottish presenter and actor.

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David French (charity administrator)

David French (born 20 June 1947) was chief executive officer of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, (2003 to 2009), an agency of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office set up to promote democratic development overseas.

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Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007

The Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allows social security information to be passed to the BBC and related parties to help with the digital television switchover in the United Kingdom.

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Don't Lose The Music

Don’t Lose the Music is a national campaign launched by RNID, the charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.

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Doug Alker

Doug Alker (born 1940) is the former chair of the British Deaf Association and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf.

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Europe PubMed Central

Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) is an on-line database that offers free access to a large and growing collection of biomedical research literature.

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Hearing aid

A hearing aid is a device designed to improve hearing by making sound audible to a person with hearing loss.

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Henley hearing

Henley Hearing was founded in 2008 by Leon Cox however, it is no longer called Henley Hearing Centre and has changed its name to the HEARING CLINIC HENLEY.

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Holby City

Holby City (styled as HOLBY CI+Y) is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.

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Jackie Ballard

Jacqueline Margaret Ballard (née Mackenzie; born 4 January 1953) has been a charity senior manager, politician and journalist in the United Kingdom.

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John Low (charity executive)

Sir John Menzies Low, CBE, CEng (born 1 July 1953) is the Chief Executive of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and an independent member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

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John McCaffrey (fundraiser)

John McCaffrey (born Apr 1968) is a fundraising professional, based in the United Kingdom.

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Kevin Shinkwin, Baron Shinkwin

Kevin Joseph Maximilian Shinkwin, Baron Shinkwin (born 7 June 1971) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords.

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Lip reading

Lip-reading, also known as lipreading or speechreading, is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue when normal sound is not available.

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Lisa Goodrich

Lisa V. Goodrich is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School.

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List of disability rights organizations

This is a list of notable disability rights organizations.

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List of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter

List of organisations in the United Kingdom with a royal charter is an incomplete list of organisations based in the United Kingdom that have received a royal charter from an English, Scottish, or British monarch.

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Lytham St Annes

Lytham St Annes is a seaside resort on the Fylde coast of Lancashire, England, south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary.

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National Deaf Children's Society

The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS) is a British charity dedicated to providing support, information and advice for deaf children and young people, their families and professionals working with them.

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NHS Direct Wales

NHS Direct Wales is a 24-hour telephone and internet health advice service provided by NHS Wales to enable people to obtain advice when use of the national emergency telephone number (999 or 112) does not seem to be appropriate but there is some degree of urgency; it also functions as a confidential advice service for some medical matters which a patient might be reluctant to discuss with their own General Practitioner (GP) and has subsidiary helplines for specific health matters such as human papillomavirus (HPV).

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Pat Keysell

Pat Keysell (7 June 1926 – 31 October 2009) was a presenter of the BBC television series Vision On which ran from 1964 to 1976.

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Pierre Gorman

Pierre Patrick Gorman, CBE (1 October 1924 – 1 October 2006) was an Australian librarian and academic who specialised in education for children with disabilities.

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Rachel Shenton

Rachel Joy Shenton (born 21 December 1987) is a British actress who has appeared in a number of British television series and films.

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Rita Simons

Rita Joanne Simons (born 10 March 1977) is an English actress, singer, and model from London, who is known for playing Roxy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2017, when her character was killed off.

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Royal institute

Royal Institute or Royal Institution may refer to.

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Sense Scotland

Sense Scotland is a disability services and awareness charity in Scotland, formalized in 1985.

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Shared space

Shared space is an urban design approach that minimises the segregation between modes of road user.

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Stuart Etherington

Sir Stuart James Etherington, (born 26 February 1955) is a British charity executive and former social worker.

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Tom Levitt

Tom Levitt (born 10 April 1954) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for High Peak from the 1997 to 2010 general elections.

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Transport standards organisations

Transport standards organisations is an article transport Standards organisations, consortia and groups that are involved in producing and maintaining standards that are relevant to the global transport technology, transport journey planning and transport ticket/retailing industry.

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UCL Ear Institute

The UCL Ear Institute is an academic department of the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London (UCL) located in Gray's Inn Road in the Bloomsbury district of Central London, England, next to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, the UK's largest ear, nose and throat hospital.

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Ulster Institute for the Deaf

The Ulster Institute for the Deaf (UID) was a Northern Ireland charity based in Belfast to support the Deaf Community in Ulster.

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University of Bradford Union

The University of Bradford Union (UBU) is the students' union for the University of Bradford in Bradford, England and is a registered charity.

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Ursula Eason

Ursula Vernon Eason (19 August 1910 – 25 December 1993) was a BBC radio broadcaster, television producer and administrator, and a pioneer of television programmes for deaf children in the 1950s and '60s.

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We're the Superhumans

"We're the Superhumans" is a television advert which was produced by Channel 4 to promote its broadcast of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

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Westlife

Westlife were an Irish pop vocal group, formed in Dublin in 1998 and disbanded in 2012.

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Which?

Which? is a brand name used by the Consumers' Association, a registered charity (No. 296072) and company limited by guarantee (No. 580128), which is based in the United Kingdom.

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1964 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1964 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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1978 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1978 were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries.

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1986 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1986 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries.

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999 (emergency telephone number)

999 is an official emergency telephone number in a number of countries which allows the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance.

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RNID, Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Royal National Institute for the Deaf, Royal National Institute of the Deaf.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_on_Hearing_Loss

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