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Callum Fox: Walking the line between the hearing and deaf worlds
My name is Callum Fox. I intend to write about my experiences as a cochlear implant user and what life has been like over the 17 years since I was first implanted in 1995. I was born on July 14, 1990...
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Callum Fox: Crunch meeting with my audiologist. Will I get a new CI?
It’s that time of the year again. I’ll be making my way to Stanley Primary Care Centre in County Durham for my annual appointment with an audiologist. It’s something I go through every year, ever since...
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Callum Fox: Meeting my audiologist – the post-mortem
I prepared myself. I had a little book of questions. I strode into the office confidently, ready to give my audiologist a grilling. It didn’t quite turn out that way. I wrote about my issues in my last...
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Callum Fox: The Sound of Music
Music. It’s everywhere. Our lives are filled with the sweet sound of music, no matter where we go. Whether it be the latest pop sensation or the classical music of years gone by, our lives are enriched...
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Callum Fox: Navigating the jungle (and how audiologists are only interested...
As some of you may have read, I went to the audiologist for a routine checkup and ended up asking many, many questions. Because I asked, I ended up hearing some surprising stuff. Most of the...
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Callum Fox: English. It’s a bastard (when you can’t pronounce certain words)
It’s happened more times than I can count. I’m in the middle of a sentence. I come across a word that I don’t know how to pronounce. I stumble over the word. My housemates lean forward in anticipation....
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Callum Fox: We Are The Borg. You Will Be Assimilated.
Sometimes you’ve just got to laugh. When I came across a post on Facebook showing a pretty gruesome picture extolling the evils of cochlear implants, I was appalled at the sentiments expressed in the...
View ArticleCallum Fox: How Japanese Manga comic A Silent Voice explores being a deaf...
“I wish we had never met. I wish we could meet once again. A boy who can hear, Shoya Ishida, and a transfer student who can’t, Shoko Nishimiya.” A particular passion of mine is reading Japanese comic...
View ArticleCallum Fox: English. It’s a bastard (when you can’t pronounce certain words)
Every weekend, we are publishing popular articles from our archive, which you might have missed the first time round! Tell us which articles you think should be reposted by...
View ArticleCallum Fox: Navigating the jungle (and how audiologists are only interested...
At weekends, we publish popular articles from our archive, which you might have missed the first time round! Tell us which articles you think should be reposted by emailing thelimpingchicken@gmail.com...
View ArticleCallum Fox: I’m looking forward to the new Japanese animation about deaf...
Popular Japanese manga Koe no Katachi, which translates into English as ‘A Silent Voice’, has been adapted into a film […]
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