Gordon's
Story

With my 60 years’ experience as a bilateral hearing aid user and 36 years personal experience evaluating and installing assistive equipment both in public and private premises, for the hearing aid user, I hope you will find the information below helpful.

In June 2018 I retired from my business that specialises in solutions to mitigate against hearing loss. The company was purchased by Sonova Communications UK, it is still trading as Gordon Morris you can see more at www.gordonmorris.co.uk

I have had a lifelong passion to illuminate the complex issues of sounds and deafness, and to find ways of helping to inform and educate parents, education personnel, work colleagues, family and friends about what they need to know about us with hearing impairment.

We all take verbal communication for granted until it breaks-down, either voice is unable to transmit effectively, or unable to hear effectively. To try and mitigate communication difficulties is extremely complex and difficult. For those of us who wear hearing aids it is difficult at the best of time. We are living in a modern world of high-speed IT communications, mobile phones etc, increased background noise level i.e. (open plan classrooms / offices, background music and traffic noise etc).

Communities do not have time to chat and listen or do not know how to help us. This of course creates high stress levels and makes it difficult for those of us who wear hearing aids to fully participate.

What is life, if full of care
the Hearing World no time can spare
for us, who find it hard to hear,
but long with you to chat and share.
We, whose hearing is awry,
are often simply just too shy
to tell you so. And though we try
to hear, we struggle to get by;
to be and do the best we can;
like every woman, every man.
Making room for us in your world must mean
taking time to be heard as well as seen;
being part of our world, becoming a team.
For the hard of hearing that is our dream.

I have founded this website  as a means to enable
all those with hearing loss to participate and also as a way to distribute a revolutionary software application that I my team have developed.

It is my strongest desire to increase awareness. To enrich communication requires more time to be given to those people who have hearing impairments.

I hope when you purchase this software package you will be enriched with greater understanding of deafness.

I wish you well on this journey of discovering what hearing loss is like both for the user and all the peers, they are in contact with.

It would be good for if you can feed back how your journey has been with this simulator and please suggest what other features could be added to the next generation.

Gordon Morris

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