Audiologist launches project to challenge stigma
Wednesday 26th May 2010
A professional audiologist has initiated a project designed to challenge the stigma associated with wearing hearing aids.
Kate Cross works at a Nuffield Health Hospital, which is one of a network of 200 such facilities located around the country.
She lost her hearing when she was a child and has been reliant on sound devices ever since.
In a bid to make donning the items less of a chore, she has created a range of innovative hearing aid accessories, which are due to go on sale soon.
Ms Cross remarked: "Hearrings can customise an existing hearing aid and they can be interchanged with different colours to match an outfit."
Initially, it will probably be used by mainly women, but a line for children and one for men are to be set up in the future, she added.
The medical expert sometimes uses the items herself, she went on to note.
Written by Alex Franklin Stortford
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