- Aim: Review the technical performance, usability and design of 75 products and services of particular benefit to people with hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Impact: More than 50 products were reviewed for the One in Seven membership magazine in more depth than originally planned. Thirty-six new items were tested for our retail arm and a few were evaluated for external companies. We also reviewed services, such as high definition television, and their relevance to people with a hearing loss.
- Aim: Lobby two high street retailers to encourage the consumer electronics industry to provide guidance to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing make informed choices about accessible equipment.
- Impact: A number of approaches to high street retailers failed to persuade them to do more to promote the accessibility features of the products they already retail. We will continue to push them to do more and will consider alternative ways to bring about this much needed result.
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- Aim: Identify and evaluate at least 100 new product designs for listening products, working in-house and with manufacturers, academics and the design community.
- Impact: Nearly 100 industrial design students took up RNID’s challenge to design attractive and innovative hearing protection products. After judging by leading UK design companies, the winning design - an "Ear-card", a unique credit card style solution with compressed hearing protection plugs - was prominently featured in a leading design magazine and the national press.
We launched the UK’s first affordable fully digital listener, the RNID Sonido, which is already outselling the original RNID Crystal by 300%, and selected 30 new products for retail.
- Aim: The above aim and impact is available in BSL
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- Aim: Lever radical change in statutory community equipment services by securing funding to develop new models of service delivery to be copied nationally.
- Impact: As part of a government working group, we supported the development and piloting of a new way of delivering community equipment services through retail. We provided the specifications for the sensory products which have now been included in the National Product Catalogue, from which local authorities select appropriate products to meet the needs of their client groups.
Zubair & Zuheb's story
Brothers Zubair and Zuheb are deaf and until now they have relied on their family to wake them up in the morning. Lynn Bannister from our Community Equipment Services presents the brothers with their new alarm clock.
“It will help me to wake up early so that I won’t be late for school.” Zubair
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