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Hearing Loss Not Success Barrier For Phillip Hall
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 6:21 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
Phillip Hall, a 24-year old double honours graduate with severe hearing loss, has been awarded the Quest for Excellence Scholarship by the National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD). More >>
Close Up announcement welcomed by deaf
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 3:41 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
The National Foundation for the Deaf welcomes the announcement that Close Up on TVNZ will be offering live captioning when it goes back to air on Monday next week. More >>
Would You Like Earplugs with that?
Friday, 15 September 2006, 12:21 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
Restaurants have become noisier than ever and New Zealand studies into restaurant noise confirm they are consistently exceeding levels at which normal speech can be understood. Hard surfaces such as concrete and glass feature in the trendiest contemporary ... More >>
Brighter Future for Hearing Impaired Babies
Friday, 19 May 2006, 3:26 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
The National Foundation for the Deaf welcomes The Budget’s commitment of funds to establish a hearing screening programme for all newborns. More >>
Hearing Loss No Barrier to Academic Success
Friday, 5 May 2006, 2:30 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
Proving that a hearing impairment is no barrier to success, hearing impaired Jenny Pevreal has been awarded a prestigious Freemasons of New Zealand Postgraduate Scholarship for Doctoral study – one of only eight in the country, and a University of Waikato ... More >>
Foundation for the Deaf Welcomes Move by Apple
Friday, 31 March 2006, 3:04 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
National Foundation for the Deaf Welcomes Move by Apple to Set iPod Volume Cap The National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD) – the charity representing some 450,000 Deaf and hearing impaired New Zealanders - has welcomed a move by Apple to introduce a ... More >>
Achieving against the odds
Monday, 19 September 2005, 10:44 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
Jenny Pevreal, a hearing impaired wife, mother, farmer and fulltime A+ student, has been awarded the Quest for Excellence Scholarship for Deaf and hearing impaired New Zealanders to coincide with Deaf Awareness Week. More >>
Deaf Awareness Week 19-25th September 2005
Wednesday, 14 September 2005, 5:37 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
Whether you’re a band member, a builder or a bar tender your job could be making you deaf. More >>
A Better Future For Deaf And Hearing Impaired
Friday, 26 August 2005, 12:35 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
New Zealand's 450,000 Deaf and hearing impaired people are set to benefit from a unique conference being organised by the National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD) in September. More >>
Scholarship Encourages Excellence For Deaf
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 4:09 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
The National Foundation for the Deaf and the Deaf Association of New Zealand are calling for entries for the $15,000 Quest for Excellence scholarship. More >>
NZ Children’s Hearing At Risk
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 8:54 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
In the last ten years, the average age for identifying children born with hearing loss in New Zealand has increased from two to nearly four years of age. More >>
Deaf, Bi-lingual and Achieving Against the Odds
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 12:16 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
Daniel Carruthers, a 29 year old with severe hearing loss, has been awarded the inaugural Quest for Excellence Scholarship for Deaf and hearing impaired New Zealanders at an event held in Auckland last night to kick off Deaf Awareness Week. More >>
The Deaf Now Able To Talk On The Phone
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 5:15 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
The National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD) welcomes the introduction of a telephone relay service for New Zealanders who are deaf and/or hearing impaired. More >>
Improved Communication For Hearing Impaired
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 2:19 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
Barriers to communication that can make daily life a hassle for the 450,000 New Zealanders suffering from hearing loss are being tackled in a national initiative by the Hearing Association with the backing of the National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD). More >>
New Appointments At NFD
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 3:02 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
The National Foundation for the Deaf has appointed Liz McFarland to the new role of research and information officer. More >>
New Website Helps Deaf And Hearing Impaired NZers
Tuesday, 25 November 2003, 9:44 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
Help is now available at the click of a mouse for New Zealanders suffering from or concerned about hearing loss with the launch of the National Foundation for the Deaf’s new website www.nfd.org.nz. More >>
Mountaineer Flys Flag For Hearing Impaired
Thursday, 25 September 2003, 10:02 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
Hearing impaired geologist and keen mountaineer, Sam McCready, has successfully scaled the Matterhorn, one of the world's great peaks, to coincide with this week's national Deaf Awareness Week. More >>
Early Detection Of Deafness Key To Quality Of Life
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 10:31 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
NZ children are suffering in silence as their hearing problems go undetected. Of the more than 55,000 babies born in New Zealand every year, around 138 are born with moderate or greater hearing loss which is not detected until the children are almost ... More >>
What’s That Sound In My Head?
Monday, 18 August 2003, 12:57 am | National Foundation for the Deaf
Two out of every 100 New Zealanders suffer from tinnitus so severe it affects their daily life, with a further 6 – 17% suffering from problematic tinnitus. More >>
First Research Of Its Kind In New Zealand
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 4:09 pm | National Foundation for the Deaf
The National Foundation for the Deaf has awarded a research grant to the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Otago School of Health Sciences to investigate the causes of the common condition tinnitus. More >>
