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Ambassadors
Lisa Caldwell – The Hearing Coach
In 2005 I lost the hearing in my right ear overnight. There in the evening, gone the next morning. To be replaced with vertigo and tinnitus that sounded like someone’s wellies being pulled out of the mud.
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Having had perfect hearing for the first 30 or so years of my life, this was a bit of a shock and meant a lot of adjustment in my work and home life.
Since then I’ve developed severe/profound hearing loss in my left ear. For those who aren’t audiologists, it equates to me having about 25% of my hearing left.
Even losing just a small amount of your hearing can have a huge impact on your life at work, your relationships and your hobbies. I set up the Hearing Coach, to use my experience of a decade of hearing a loss to help others who find themselves in this new and confusing world.


Tina Lannin
Tina Lannin is the founder of 121 Captions, a Deaf Unity sponsor. 121 Captions was the first agency to pioneer remote speech to text reporting in the UK. 121 Captions is deaf-owned, deaf-led and provides high quality captioning, lipreaders,
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A social enterprise helping deaf people into education and work through high-quality communication support, training and consultancy. I was born deaf and I’m a lipreader with two cochlear implants. I believe a good education is a key to being successful in business. I attended four universities to read business, Japanese, law, and careers consultancy – I only had communication support with my last degree so I understand the huge benefits of appropriate support.
I worked as an accountant for ten years and recently was the finance manager for Hearing Concern. I trained as a mentor to help deaf people to work, a lipreading teacher, a deaf awareness trainer, and a psychometric examiner. I was helping deaf people around me to access education and work and was often frustrated at the quality and limited range of communication support available to deaf people requiring captions, and so 121 Captions was born.
I am passionate about helping other deaf people to have equal access to work, education, and events through high-quality communication support with an expert one-to-one service led by deaf people.
Sarah Ellis
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