Friday, 10 February 2012
EquipLinks: Hearing disorders
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This resource was last checked on: 28 September 2011
Easy Health
This website includes: Health leaflets that are easy to understand; Films showing visits to health professionals; Information for patients on improving your health and wellbeing ; Information for health professionals on improving the way you work; Useful help-lines and other websites. Topics include: Abuse, Ageing, Alcohol, Asthma, Autism, Blood Test, Bowel and Bladder, Breast examination, Calling an ambulance, Cancer, Chemist, Colds and flu, CT Scan, Death, Dementia, Dentist, Depression, Diabetes, Down syndrome, Ears, Epilepsy, Exercise, Eyes, Feeling upset, Grief, Healthy activities, Healthy eating, Hearing, Heart disease, Hernia, Hospitals, Hygiene, Hypertension, Love and sex, Maternity, Medication, Menopause, Old age, Pain and discomfort, Periods, Physiotherapy, Sexual health, Smear test, Smoking, Staying healthy, Stomach, Sunburn, Teeth, Testicles, Weight
This resource was last checked on: 09 January 2012
National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders
An American site with information on speech, hearing and other communication problems
This resource was last checked on: 05 May 2011
Patient UK
A UK site of links to other websites by topic and patient information leaflets written by doctors. Some of the leaflets are translated into Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu
This resource was last checked on: 05 May 2011
RNID - Royal National Institute for Deaf People
This website has a large number of factsheets on hearing related issues that can also be ordered by post
This resource was last checked on: 04 July 2011
SignTranslate Hospital
The program translates pre-defined medical questions from English into twelve foreign languages including Arabic, Bengali, French, Gujarati, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu. The translated questions are displayed in written and spoken format, so that the non-English speaking patient need not be literate to understand the question. The questions are also translated into British Sign Language (BSL) using short video clips.
This resource was last checked on: 12 April 2011
Vestibular Disorders Association
An American site which has detailed information written by doctors about inner-ear balance disorders such as Meniere's disease, Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and Labyrinthitis, Acoustic neuroma, Endolymphatic hydrops, neuronitis, Mal de debarquement syndrome, ototoxicity, perilymph fistula.
This resource was last checked on: 08 August 2011
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