This was a clinical and audiometric survey of a sample of 299 Territorial Army (TA) servicemen in the London area to identify the priority to be given to and the broad content of a Hearing Conservation Programme for the TA. A questionnaire was used to estimate previous noise exposure and the use of hearing protection. It is estimated that 4% of TA personnel have a hitherto undetected hearing lo...

This contribution sets out the necessity to re-imagine the notion of deafness in order to open up the potentials of this multifaceted cultural and linguistic phenomenon for technology design. The paper challenges common normative assumptions about deafness that are derived from some audiometric hearing “norm” and therefore bound our imagination by drawing attention to inabilities, difficulties ...