As World Hearing Day is observed on Wednesday, activists believe there is still not enough awareness being done around hearing impairment and deafness.
Dr Dianne Bell from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology said because it’s an invisible disability, the constitutional rights for people with hearing impairment are often overlooked and they are excluded from conversations.
“A typical example is that we see now when the president addresses the nation on any development regarding Covid-19 in the country, there is only a sign language interpreter. Only 10% of the people living with hearing impairment in the country use sign language,” she told TimesLIVE.
A CUMBRIAN nurse has died with coronavirus. The announcement made by NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group said that Chris Buckingham, a nurse in the Continuing Health Care Team, had passed away with the virus. Mr Buckingham had joined the CCG in March last year and was well known in the health and social care community. He had worked at A&E at the Cumberland Infirmary, Keswick Community Hospital and Scarborough Hospitals after a nursing career that started in the Royal Army Medical Corps. A statement released by the CCG said: “It is with great sadness we pay tribute to our friend and colleague Chris Buckingham who has passed away with covid.”
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Tom Blair, the consummate man-about-town who parlayed his passion for words and music into a career that delighted and entertained generations of San Diegans through his newspaper column, big band jazz performances and 1960s rock ‘n’ roll cover songs, has died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 74.
The longtime newspaperman covered local politics before turning his pen to the three-dot columns that chronicled the life and times of his adopted hometown in brief and humorous anecdotes. He died Tuesday at the Oakmont of Pacific Beach retirement community.
“He loved the idea of being a three-dot columnist,” said Karin Winner, former editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, referring to the storytelling method made famous by San Francisco Chronicle writer Herb Caen, who segmented his anecdotes with a trio of asterisks.
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We are all familiar with that romantic, ‘Peace on Earth’ Christmas fantasy depicted in Hollywood movies, where families stroll snow-lined streets without a care in the world, and everyone is smiling and happy, and looking forward to unwrapping all those presents under the tree.
Unfortunately, we know the real world is not like that, and not least for the lack of snow.
It has been a tough year for everybody, and for those families who were already struggling, events of 2020 may well have tipped them over the edge.
While the Christmas fantasy is just a fantasy, the Christmas spirit is real within the Ipswich community, and it was particularly evident this year.
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