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Most people take listening, hearing and understanding for granted and do it without much thought or effort.听 For people who develop hearing loss, day-to-day communication can be far less easy.

Hearing Link is a UK charity for people with any level of hearing loss and their family and friends.听 We understand what it means to have hearing loss, and understand the practical, emotional and social challenges it can bring.

Hearing Link offers a helpdesk, useful website and magazine, group rehabilitation programmes, one-to-one support and more.

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Wynne is quietly successful, hard-working, proud of his family and active in the community. But one day his life was turned completely upside down.

He lost his hearing very suddenly. It came as a terrible shock and affected his work, his family and his social life.

Daily activities became complex chores such as answering the telephone or joining in with family conversations.

Then he received a leaflet about Hearing Link. Initially sceptical, as well as extremely nervous, Wynne and his wife signed up for a 鈥楽elf-Management Programme鈥�, a highly personalised course offering one-to-one support, run by trained volunteers who are themselves living with hearing loss.

Our programme has helped Wynne鈥檚 life enormously and to get him back on track.

Wynne says, 鈥淗earing Link gave me back my me鈥�.

David Walters鈥� hearing began to deteriorate after a firearms incident at work triggered tinnitus in his left ear. Over eight years, his hearing worsened and resulted in him being medically discharged from his job in the Police.

However, the major turning point came in 2008 when without warning he lost all hearing in his left ear and six weeks later lost all the hearing in his right ear leaving him completely deaf.

This has had a devastating impact on his life.听 But since signing up to a Hearing Link programme, Dave says he has his life back.听听 鈥淗earing Link proved to be my lifeline鈥�.

On the face of it Shona Hudson has lived a full life. She attended mainstream school, got married and attended university, and now works as a manager for a water utility company.

However, since birth, Shona has struggled with hearing loss. Realising that her deteriorating hearing was affecting her work Shona sought help and advice through Hearing Link.

She contacted our helpdesk team, which is run by volunteers who have experience of hearing loss themselves, and suggested that Shona would benefit from attending our highly regarded Self-Management Programme.

Since then Shona has regained her confidence at work. She says 鈥淚 see a world of opportunity to work with my hearing loss rather than denying it.鈥�