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CJ Murray

We would like to thank the family and friends of CJ Murray, who recently presented the Cochlear Implant Clinic with a cheque for the Help to Hear Fund.

CJ had his cochlear implants in May of this year and is making excellent progress.
His parents organised a charity night with lots of different events including head shaving, leg waxing and a disco and raised £500 .

We would like to thank them for their generosity and thoughtfulness.

Albert Bryant

We would like to thank the family of Albert Bryant for their kind donation of £700 to the Help to Hear Fund. Albert's daughter Lynn and her husband Alec ran in the Glasgow half marathon last year and raised this fantastic amount through sponsorship. We are very grateful to them for their all their efforts and hard work. Albert has had his implant for many years and continues to make very good use of it.

Leon Martin

We would like to thank the Grandparents of Leon Martin, for their very kind donation of £200 to the Help to Hear Fund. Leon's grandparents, Joe and Betty Martin raised this money from their Ruby Wedding Celebration and we are very grateful to them for this generous gesture. Leon was implanted last August and continues to make excellent progress with his implant.

Scottish cochlear implant programme

Come and join us on
Saturday 28th August 2010
From 1 - 4pm
at Chatelherault Country Park

Click here to download the brochure and see the details.

Step back in Time

Implant users Darren O'Donnell and Hussein Mohammed (pictured with their teacher Mrs Blair) have been studying World War 2. Their Primary 7 Class in St Joseph's Hearing Impairment Unit in Glasgow threw a 1940's tea party for parents and professionals on 30th March 09. They transformed their classroom into 1940's style (complete with Anderson shelter and gas masks) and filled the walls with information on rationing, world leaders the blitz etc. Children and staff wore themed outfits and treated visitors to a cream tea. Primary 7 entertained the company with poems and songs - concluding with rousing choruses of "roll out the barrel" and "Run rabbit run".

Help to Hear Fund

We would like to thank Debbie Roddick and her family for their generous donation of £350 to the Help to Hear Fund. Debbie's Gran, Margaret McMillan, sadly passed away recently, aged 84yrs and had expressed the wish to make this donation possible. We were very sorry to hear of Debbie's Gran's passing but we are very grateful to her and her family for this generous donation.

Whilst the Help to Hear Fund was set up initially to provide people with cochlear implants before national funding was available, it is now used to benefit patients in other ways. For example it helps to furnish 2 houses within the hospital grounds which families travelling from a distance can use free of charge during their hospital visits. It also helps fund family days out and the Children's Christmas Party; events which allow implant users and their families to meet and share experiences.

Good News Gallery

My name is Natalie Henderson and I was awarded a BSc Honours (2:1) in Sport Studies, Physical Education and Professional Education. Even though I was meant to do probationary year as a PE teacher this year, however, teaching was not meant for me- just say patience is not one of my strongest qualities! But I am very very happy I have done this degree as I have learnt so much from it- I can now say I have tried and know what it is like rather than thinking about 'what if' if I didn't do the course. So I can now walk away from it and take the experience with me. Therefore, I am currently taking a year out to enjoy stress-free freedom and find out what is my future career path. At the moment, I am working in a UK-wide law firm in Glasgow as an Archives Assistant- it is not bad- quite straightforward job- just what I need for a year out. I am still thinking of having a career in a sports-related field but not teaching/coaching- more like organising sport events- I'd love to get involved in upcoming commonwealth games in 2014- something like that. I need to find a job in that direction and work my way up so fingers crossed!!

Congratulations to these cochlear implant users for their outstanding achievements.If you know of anyone who has had recent success in any field let us know.

"My name is Kenneth O'Neill and I am 22 years old. I have studied Mathematics at Strathclyde University for the past 4 years and graduated last July with a First Class Honours Degree. I am currently studying Mathematics at PhD level for 3 years which is very hard work but am thoroughly enjoying."

Holiday Loaner Forms

The clinic is unable to provide spare processors for holiday cover ,but they are available to loan from the implant companies themselves for a fee. These loaner forms are available to download and can be sent directly to the company involved.

Advanced Bionics (Please click on each form to download more information)

Cochlear (Please click on each form to download more information)

Med El (Please click on each form to download more information)

Holiday Loaner Request Form (med el)

If you have any problems downloading the forms on this page use the link on the right to update to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Christmas Party 2008

The annual Christmas party was held at Crosshouse Hospital on Saturday 6th December 2008. Over 50 children and their parents attended and enjoyed games, food and a visit from Santa! This party was generously sponsored by Radio Clyde's Cash for Kids