Archives of Deafness

A small, green amphibian over on Frogblog is doing a series on National’s “gutting” of ACC (If only!). Yesterday, he was griping about the plan to cease compensation for people with hearing losses under 6%. Apparently this is not “fair”. How it can be fair to compensate people for a barely noticeable hearing loss is [...]

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Campbell live had a story tonight about Rose, a 2-year-old, deaf girl who had a cochlear implant done in America but subsequently moved to New Zealand. Initially, the Ministry of Health refused to fund her speech and language therapy, thereby rendering the entire cochlea implant an expensive waste of time. After much lobbying, the Ministry [...]

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