Hello! I’m E, you may know me as Deafie Blogger. I’m an award winning blogger and activist and I am profoundly deaf. I’m passionate about deaf awareness and campaigning for deaf rights.

I love inspiring people of any age, with deafness or hearing loss and to encourage them to not let their deafness stand in the way of achieving their goals.

My motto is: ‘Deaf people can achieve anything they dream of, given the right support’.

My deafness

I have a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and I’ve been deaf since birth. I wear Phonak hearing aids and I communicate through both speech, lipreading and British Sign Language (BSL). I’ve passed my British Sign Language (BSL) Level 3. I’d love to do BSL Level 6 one day.

Blogging

I was previously a proud ‘Phonak hEARo’ and writer Phonak’s Hearing Like Me Community Blog. I also wrote blogs regularly for British Deaf News and Limping Chicken. I contributed occasionally to other guest blogs.

Career and Spare Time

I work within Marketing for a deaf organisation in the UK. I previously wrote blogs and posted engaging content on my Deafie Blogger social media channels. I also campaigned for deaf rights and #SubtitledCinema

In my free time, I love travelling, and spending time with friends and family.

Achievements

I have achieved many great things; an Olympic Torchbearer for London 2012 Games, completing two Tandem Skydives, visiting Parliament for Action on Hearing Loss, receiving a Highly Commended Award at the RAD in 2016 and much more. I am proud to be an award winning blogger, achieving the Leadership Award at the Signature Deaf Annual Awards in 2018.

This blog

This is a personal blog, which I started on 15 May 2015, as a place for me to express my thoughts, experiences and stories about deafness! I love to inspire and educate other people, sharing my experiences, giving advice and raising deaf awareness. I have since taken a break from blogging, but hope to return one day.

I hope to show that if you have a hearing loss, you’re not alone, and ‘you can do anything you dream of, given the right support’.

Signing off for now, E